• Katuwal v. Kafle

    Publication Date: 2024-09-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wallach
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 02-23-00404-CV

    Ferguson International owned a convenience store that received a loan from the Small Business Administration.

  • In the Interest of A. E., a Child

    Publication Date: 2024-09-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelle Gopman, (Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calandra Harps, Christopher Carr, Bryan Webb, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Nathan Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Lytia Brown, Joshlynn Clark, (Brown Geiger & Associates), Atlanta, for appellee; Ronald Richards, (The Law Office of Ronald M. Richards & Associates, LLC), Decatur, for other party.

    Case Number: A24A1018

    Court reverses juvenile court's order that granted temporary custody of a minor child to DFCS, citing insufficient evidence of parental unfitness, and remans case for an evidentiary hearing

  • Dial v. Burge

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Todd Harding, (Attorney at Law), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: LeAnne Cooper, (Petrelli Previtera, LLC), Covington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0885

    Court reverses dismissal of petition for child support modification based on alleged income loss where petition was filed within an exception of the two-year limitation in OCGA § 19-6-15 (k) (2)

  • In the Matter of J.H.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-22-00894-CV

    In 2021, appellant engaged in delinquent conduct by committing aggravated robbery with a firearm on two occasions.

  • In the Int. of R.R.A.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Poissant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-22-00217-CV

    In March 2020, the children at issue were removed from appellant's care due to homelessness and his positive methamphetamine tests.

  • McClelland v. Katy Indep. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Education Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Wise
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-22-00432-CV

    Appellant, a high school football player, was disciplined for making a racially charged video and later for possessing marijuana.

  • U.S. v. Suquilanda

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law | Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Eunice C. Lee
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellee: Jane Y. Chong, on the brief, Won S. Shin, Assistant United States Attorneys, for Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, NY. For Defendant-Appellant: S. Isaac Wheeler & Allegra Glashausser, Federal Defenders of New York, Inc., New York, NY, on the brief, Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA.
    for defendant: For Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Justice Strategies, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Legal Aid Justice Center, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, and National Immigration Law Center, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Nicholas D. Espiritu, Los Angeles, CA & Max S. Wolson, Washington, DC, National Immigration Law Center; Ghita Schwarz, LatinoJustice PRLDEF, New York, NY. For Legal Service Providers and Immigrant Rights Organizations, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Ann Garcia, Khaled Alrabe, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Washington, DC; Charles Roth, National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL. For Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Human Rights First, and Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Michele A. McKenzie, McKenzie Scott PC, San Diego, CA. For Critical Race and Nation Studies, and Professor Eric Fish, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Alexander G. Tievsky, Edelson PC, Chicago, IL, for the Center for Immigration Law and Policy, the Aoki Center. For Dr. S. Deborah Kang, amicus curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Philip L. Torrey, Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA. For Immigration Scholars, amici curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant: Amanda Valerio, Washington, DC & Alexia D. Korberg, Melina Meneguin Layerenza, Patrick McCusker, New York, NY, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

    Case Number: 22-1197-cr

    Defect in NTA Did Not Strip Immigration Court of Jurisdiction to Order Initial Removal

  • In re Krystal Christon

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10-24-00158-CV

    The parties' final decree of divorce included a residential geographic restriction to Bezos County, Montgomery County or a contiguous county imposed upon the mother who was granted the exclusive right to designate the primary residence of the child.

  • City of Atlanta v. Perkins

    Publication Date: 2024-09-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Premises Liability
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Reilly, Margaret Mathis, William Smith, Mark Bailey, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dwight Chamberlin, William Gray, (Gray King Chamberlin & Martineau LLC), Atlanta, Maxwell Thelen, Seth Lowry, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0695

    Court affirms spoliation sanctions against City of Atlanta in a negligence action, and affirms trial court's decision to overturns attorney fees award due to a procedural deficiency

  • Aguilar v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Adams
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01-22-00841-CR

    Appellant and others lured the victim to a garage under the pretense of a drug deal, where defendant and his accomplices planned to rob and kill him.