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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.”

Richard L. Robbins, the founding partner of RobbinsFreed in Atlanta, says he took a risk last year when he offered a job to Gov. Sonny Perdue’s executive counsel, Joshua B. Belinfante.

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.

A day after Georgia Court of Appeals Presiding Judge G. Alan Blackburn announced his intention to retire on June 30, the three candidates who had announced their intention to seek his seat in November are circumspect as they wait to see whether Gov. Sonny Perdue will move to appoint a successor or let the matter be decided by the voters.

Gov. Sonny Perdue named Frank C. Jones the pro bono Special Attorney General to direct Georgia’s participation in challenging health care reform recently passed by Congress.