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  • Ortiz v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-15-00078-CR

    Appellant, Jose Ortiz, appealed his conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver primarily objecting to the trial court's denial of his motion to reveal the identity of an informant.

  • In The Interest of H. B. et al., Children.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa Lenn (Lisa Lenn PA), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gayle Abramson (Attorney at Law), Dallas; Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Richard Tangum (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta; Shalen Nelson (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0257

    Evidence Father Sexually Abused His Children Supported Juvenile Court's Dependency Order

  • Altamaha Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Rayonier Performance Fibers, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-11
    Practice Area: Energy and Natural Resources | Environmental Law
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Brown, Megan Huynh (Southern Environmental Law Center), Atlanta; Donald Stack (Stack & Associates PC), Atlanta; Keri Powell (Law Office of Keri N Powell LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Barmeyer, Randall Butterfield, Stephen McCullers (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta; James Durham (Hall Booth Smith P.C.), Brunswick; Isaac Byrd (Deputy Attorney General), Atlanta; Christopher Carr (Attorney General), James Coots (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta; Graham Barron (GA Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Georgia Industry Environmental Coalition Inc, Atlanta; Douglas Henderson (Troutman Sanders), Atlanta; Georgia Riverkeepers, Decatur; Charles Cork (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for amicus curiae.
    Case Number: A18A0594

    Environmental Protection Division's Interpretation of Narrative Standard in Regulation Governing Pollution Discharge Into Rivers Was Entitled to Deference

  • Sims v. City Of Madisonville

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge King
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 16-20440

    Sims, a former officer with the Madisonville police department, sued the City of Madisonville and his former supervisor (Covington) under §1983, alleging he was terminated after reporting acts of misconduct by Covington in violation of his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

  • Littell v. Houston Independent

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 16-20717

    According to the amended complaint, after $50 went missing at a middle school, the assistant principal took 22 girls to the female school nurse who strip searched them.

  • Moore v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Strickland, Priya Patel (Smith Welch Webb & White LLC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Heather Moore, Brooks, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0137

    The Court partially affirmed and partially vacated the trial court's order modifying child custody and child support following parties' divorce, finding that the trial court did not err in granting mother sole custody of the child but did err in failing to incorporate a parenting plan in the final custody order and failing to attach the child support worksheets to the final order.

  • Coen v. Aptean, Inc. et al

    Publication Date: 2018-07-05
    Practice Area: Damages | Employment Litigation | Personal Injury
    Industry: Software
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cork (Attorney at Law), Decatur; Timothy Coen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Ames (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta; Steven Collins (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta; Richard Robbins (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta; Alexa Ross (Robbinsfreed), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0522

    Abusive Litigation Plaintiff Could Elect to Seek General Damages For Mental Distress

  • In The Interest Of H O

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 01-17-00633-CV

    Mother and child tested positive for amphetamines at the time of birth.

  • In The Interest Of KL A Child

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jamison
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 14-16-01022-CV

    In a conservatorship action, grandparents objected to the appointment of an attorney ad litem for the father of one of the children and asked trial court to declare that Government Code chapter 17 violated the separation of powers doctrine of the Texas Constitution.

  • Ferrara v. Nutt

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-17-00084-CV

    Appellant entered into an agreement with appellee Nutt to lease residential property for a period of time and that appellant would purchase the property on or before August 2024.