SB 180 (Sen. Ed Setzler) –incorporates the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act into statute.DID NOT PASS SB 332 (Sen. Randy Robertson) –eliminates the requirement that the Georgia Supreme Court approve the rules of the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications Commission.SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR SB...
SB 431 (Sen. Blake Tillery) –modifies the Apex doctrine by removing a court’s ability to grant a protective order prohibiting the deposition of high-ranking corporate officers or government officials who lack unique, personal knowledge of any matters relevant to the lawsuit.DID NOT CROSS SB 4...
when the U.S.Supreme Courtrejected African Americancitizenshipclaims. TheDred Scott decisionstated that the country’s founders had viewed Blacks as soinferiorthat they had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” This ruling—by declaring unconstitutional theMissouri Compromise(1820)...