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Caption Voters wait in line at the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections during early voting in the 2020 Presidential Election. Credit: Grant Blankenship
While new U.S. Census data shows Georgia added more than a million people over the last decade, an even larger change in registered voters and who they vote for will be key considerations when lawmakers begin assigning residents into new voting districts this fall.
Population figures released this week provide a starting point for determining how Georgia’s 10,711,908 people will be split up into legislative and Congressional districts of equal proportions.
But the political leanings of the state’s 7.6 million active voters including the five million that flocked to the polls last November will be an equally important metric in deciding where lines are drawn.
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Georgia s population soared over the last decade, growing by more than 10% to 10,711,908 people, according to the first set of 2020 Census results released Monday.
The top-level apportionment data also confirms the state will keep its 14 seats in the U.S. House, while six states will gain seats and seven states will lose seats.
Texas will now have two more representatives, and Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon each add one. On the flip side, California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia are the seven that will shrink their delegations by a seat.
Full data down to the Census Block level used for redistricting will not be released until mid-August, but the apportionment data tells us the ideal size for legislative boundaries.
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The Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program is now up and running at least for some lenders and it comes with new rules on how much small businesses can pay their employees and still get full forgiveness.
Small businesses are still limited to $100,000 salary caps, annualized over the period during which the business spends the PPP loan proceeds. But the covered period, which used to be a choice between either eight weeks or 24 weeks, is now any number of weeks between eight and 24, which means every small business will have to carefully watch its spending.
Biggest Georgia Decisions Of 2020 By
Rosie Manins Law360 (December 23, 2020, 11:40 AM EST) Georgia s appellate courts disrupted long-held tort precedent this year in a trio of significant rulings on apportionment of liability at trial, including a $1.7 million ruling in a legal malpractice suit against Alston & Bird LLP.
In that case, appellate judges reconfigured damages against Alston & Bird as a single defendant in a case involving an at-fault non-party, putting the firm on the hook for 92% of damages despite being found 32% liable.
This year, appellate courts also ruled that a company can t duck certain employment-related negligence claims even if it admits vicarious liability for an employee s conduct, which affected the apportionment of blame in a wrongful death case to give the plaintiff a new opportunity to recover damages. And Georgia justices also held that the state s apportionment statute can be applied to strict product liability cases