• State v. Banks

    Publication Date: 2016-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacquelyn Johnson, District Attorney, Brunswick, and Andrew Ekonomou The Lambros Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Allen, Kingsland, and Kevin Gough, Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A0602

    The trial court erred in granting the defendant's motion for new trial based on ineffective assistance of counsel following his convictions for aggravated child molest and child molest

  • August 1, 2016 | The American Lawyer

    Big Suits

    U.S. ex rel. O'Donnell v. Countrywide Kannon Shanmugam of Williams & Connolly and E. Joshua Rosenkranz of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe on May 23

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  • IN RE THE BEAR STEARNS COMPANIES, INC. SECURITIES, DERIVATIVE, AND ERISA LITIGATION, 08 MDL 1963

    Publication Date: 2016-08-01
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation | Litigation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Robert Sweet
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff by: Philip C. Korologos, Esq., Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, New York, NY. By: Richard B. Drubel, Esq., Matthew J. Henken, Esq., Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Hanover, NH. By: George A. Zelcs, Esq., Korein Tillery LLC, Chicago, IL. By: Stephen M. Tillary, Esq., Douglas R. Sprong, Esq., Korein Tillary LLC, St. Louis, MO.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants By: Brad S. Karp, Esq., John F. Baughman, Esq., Jessica S. Carey, Esq., Jonathan H. Hurwitz, Esq., Paul Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, NY. By: David S. Frankel, Esq., Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, New York, NY. By: David B. Anders, Esq., Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 08 MDL 1963

    Cite as: In Re the Bear Stearns, 08 MDL 1963, NYLJ 1202763871038, at *1 (SDNY, Decided July 5, 2016) This Document Relates To: Securities Action, No. 08

  • July 28, 2016 |

    Harvey v. Acceptance Indem. Ins. Co.

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis. 2016 WL 3963041Only the Westlaw citation is currently available.United States District Court,S.D. Alabama,…

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  • Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. S. G.

    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Megan Pearson and Andrew Welch Smith, Welch, Webb White, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Tafelski Georgia Legal Services Program, Robert Ashe Bondurant, Mixson Elmore LLP, Phyllis Holmen, and Lisa Krisher, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A0201

    The local board of education abused its discretion in failing to properly apply self-defense standards when it expelled a student for fighting on school gr

  • Schumacher v. City of Roswell

    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana Maine Freeman Mathis Gary, Atlanta, and Coleen Hosack, Forest Park, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A0582

    The plaintiffs' appeal was from the superior court's review of a local government zoning decision, and they were therefore required to appeal by discretionary application under O.C.G.A. § 5-6-35 sub

  • Wang v. Rodriguez

    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
    Practice Area: Immigration Law | Criminal Law
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    Date Filed: 2016-07-27
    Court: 9th Cir.
    Judge: Laurel D. Beeler, Magistrate Judge, Presiding Before: A. Wallace Tashima and William A. Fletcher, Circuit Judges and Stanley Allen Bastian,*District Judge.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank M. Tse (argued), Law Office of Frank M. Tse, San Francisco, California, for Petitioner-Appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Vuong (argued), Trial Attorney; Colin A. Kisor, Deputy Director; Civil Division, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Respondents-Appellees.

    Case Number: No. 14-15779

    Cite as 16 C.D.O.S. 7956 LIFENG WANG, AKA Alice Wang, Petitioner-Appellant, v. LEON RO

  • Shores Ag-Air, Inc. v. MPH Production Company, 13-15-00525-CV (TexApp Dist 05/19/2016)

    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
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    Date Filed: 2016-05-19
    Court: Court of Appeals of Texas, Thirteenth
    Judge: NORA L. LONGORIA JUSTICE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 13-15-00525-CV

    On appeal from the County Court at Law No. 2 of Nueces County, Texas.Before es Benavides, Perkes, and LongoriaMemorandum Opinion by

  • Hunter, et al v. Berkshire Hathaway, 15-10854 (5th Cir. 07/11/2016)

    Publication Date: 2016-07-27
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    Date Filed: 2016-07-11
    Court: United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
    Judge: EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, CIRCUIT JUDGE
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 15-10854

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of TexasBefore CLEMENT and OWEN, Circuit Judges, and JORDAN, District Judge.[A HR

  • Franklin v. Eaves

    Publication Date: 2016-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Torin Togut, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lanna Hill, Kristen Williams, Kaye Burwell, and Alfred Jackson Fulton County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A16A0616

    There were genuine issues of material fact remaining as to when the statute of limitations began to run in the plaintiff's suit under the Whistleblower Act; accordingly, the trial court erred in gra