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  • Walmart Stores East, LP v. Leverette

    Publication Date: 2024-06-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Hill, (McLain & Merritt), Atlanta, Jack Reiter, Sydney Feldman, (Gray Robinson, P.A.), Miami, for appellant.
    for defendant: Welles Gilliland, (Nick Schnyder Law Firm), Marietta, Maxwell Thelen, Seth Lowry, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0115

    Court affirms $1 million nominal damages award against Walmart in a premises liability and injury case, rejecting Walmart's arguments as to excessive damages and bias

  • Team Indus. Serv., Inc. v. Most

    Publication Date: 2024-06-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Countiss
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    Case Number: 01-22-00313-CV

    Appellee's late husband was employed at a power plant in Kansas.

  • Carmon v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2024-05-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
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    Case Number: 01-22-00524-CR

    Appellant was convicted of murder and was sentenced to 70 years' imprisonment.

  • Fraga v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A0548

    Court affirms most convictions for family violence and cruelty over defendant's challenge to evidence and assertions of error, but reverses on conviction due to insufficient evidence

  • Texas Woman's Univ. v. Casper

    Publication Date: 2024-04-29
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Rights | Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Sudderth
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    Case Number: 02-23-00384-CV

    Appellee, a tenured professor at Texas Woman's University, filed a federal lawsuit alleging age discrimination and retaliation by the University.

  • Coverstone v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace Rogers, (Burns Law Group PC), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Cliff Head, Damion Overstreet, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1619

    Court affirms denial of suppression of evidence seized during a warrantless vehicle search, finding probable cause based on the totality of circumstances amid legal CBD possession

  • Deanda v. Becerra

    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Rights | Class Actions
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Duncan
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    Case Number: 23-10159

    Appellee filed a federal lawsuit challenging appellant Secretary's administration of Title X, which was enacted to make comprehensive voluntary family planning services readily available.

  • United States v. Diaz

    Publication Date: 2024-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Engelhardt
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    Case Number: 22-50951

    Appellants Diaz and Perez-Marrufo, two Bario Azteca sicarios, were among thirty-five defendants charged for the murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, that employee's husband, and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee.

  • Brewton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan Raymond, (Hogue & Hogue (Of Counsel)), Macon, Laura Hogue, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Fulton County Solicitor General Office of the Fulton County Solicitor General), Atlanta, Marie Broder, (Spalding County District Attorney’s Office), Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1629

    Court affirms conviction for aggravated assault and reckless conduct over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and admission or prior acts evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • The State v. Shalgheen

    Publication Date: 2023-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicole Fegan, (Fegan Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1737

    Court reverses exclusion of other acts evidence in a rape and sexual assault criminal trial