U.S. House member and Georgia attorney general pushing legislation to stop “sue and settle” tactics Using courts to regulate bypass public process of rule-making in adding onerous rules, proponents say Posted: June 13, 2013 – 3:15am By Walter C. Jones ATLANTA | U.S. Rep. Doug Collins and Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens are pushing legislation [...]
Read MoreThe Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens has partnered with Facebook to launch a national consumer education campaign focused on online privacy. Olens announced his participation in the campaign, titled “What You Can Do to Control Your Information,” Thursday. The campaign is a partnership with Facebook and the National Association of Attorneys [...]
Read MoreNew Georgia Law Aims To Control ‘Pill Mills’ By TIMOTHY W. MARTIN, Wall Street Journal Georgia will soon start requiring pain clinics to be licensed by its medical board and owned by physicians, moves aimed at slowing the flow of illicit prescription-drug sales in the state. A law signed by Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday [...]
Read MoreExerpt from James Magazine … Olens was born in Florida, grew up the northeast, moved slowly southward, earning his undergraduate degree at American University in D.C., and settled in Georgia as a student at Emory University’s highly ranked law school. Olens became a Cobb County Commissioner in 1998 ushering in what many in Cobb believed [...]
Read MoreToday, the Georgia Senate approved H.B. 178, legislation to reign in the operation of illicit pill mills in Georgia. This follows passage of the bill by the House of Representatives last month. H.B. 178, sponsored by Representative Tom Weldon in the House and Senator Renee Unterman in the Senate, will provide the Georgia Composite Medical [...]
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