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Temple Sinai congregant Josh Belinfante has been saturated in Georgia and its politics since birth. The great-nephew of Ernest Barrett – longtime chairman of the Cobb County Commission and the man for whom Barrett Parkway is named – got at least one healthy dose a night as a kid.

Liquor magnate and two-time Democratic congressional candidate Roger Kahn has sued his former attorney and accountant for $7 million, claiming they are responsible for a 2008 federal court verdict that cost him more than $6 million.

The conservative comeback in the House of Representatives, coupled with loud threats by Senate Republicans to repeal recently enacted national health-care reform legislation, promises to give new life to the long-standing debate over allowing health insurance companies to sell policies across state lines.

The Georgia State Ethics Commission on Thursday unanimously elected Patrick Millsaps as its chairman and Josh Belinfante as its vice chairman.

A developer filed a lawsuit Oct. 13 against Roswell saying the city council’s decision to enforce the current zoning on a 9.7-acre tract on Holcomb Bridge Road had rendered it “economically unviable.”

It took a dispossessory action and threats of garnishment against the county, but the former landlord for the Fulton County Public Defender’s office finally collected more than $200,000 in back taxes, utility payments, insurance and attorney fees.

Georgia has now joined nineteen other states that have filed a lawsuit against the new healthcare reform laws that were passed earlier this year by Congress.