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Reckless transportation violation justifies transportation restrictions and fine.

Petitioner, a child care learning facility, was appropriately fined and subject to a 12-month-transportation restriction after the facility erroneously transported a pre-K student, without parental authorization, to an elementary school in which he was not enrolled. The violation arose as a result of a decision to rely on the children to accurately report the schools […]

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Maintenance of resident files necessary for safety.

Health Law

Petitioner, a personal care home, was fined $601 by the Department of Community Health (DCH) for failing to keep resident files for two of its residents. Petitioner mistakenly believed that residents need not have files if they have lived in the personal care home for fewer than thirty days. There is no such limitation in

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Administrative Law Section Reception

Court News

Administrative Law Section Officers Shoshana Elon, Judge Patrick Woodard and Judge Michael Malihi Shoshana Elon, Judge Michael Malihi, Judge Ana Kennedy, Judge Stephanie Howells and Elizabeth Brooks, Esq. OSAH Attorneys Laurin McDonald and Shoshana Elon, Judge Michael Malihi The Administrative Law Section of the Georgia Bar hosted the Section’s first event of the year on March

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Administrative Law Section to co-sponsor ABA Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice CLE on April 25, 2014.

Court News

OSAH Administrative Law Judge Patrick Woodard, Chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Georgia Bar, will be a featured participant at the ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice on April 25, 2014, at the Grand Hyatt Buckhead. Judge Woodard, along with Judge Errol H. Powell of Tallahassee, Florida, and Judge Jodi Levin

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Therapy several times a week insufficient to meet Katie Beckett institutional level of care.

Health Law

Petitioner’s physical limitations were not intense or frequent enough to qualify for the level of care provided in a hospital, skilled nursing facility, or intermediate care facility, as required to be eligible for the Katie Beckett class of assistance. One unit of skilled occupational and physical therapy per week, as prescribed by a doctor, without

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Character witnesses’ knowledge of applicant’s good character insufficient to overcome previous surrender of classification.

Administrative Law Report

The Georgia Real Estate Appraisers Board (Board) properly denied Petitioner’s certified residential real property appraiser application on the grounds that Petitioner surrendered her appraiser classification in 2006 during an ongoing investigation into rule violations. Although this surrender is sufficient grounds for denial, Petitioner could still obtain a license by establishing (1) that five years have

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