• Turkia v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Miller, (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Penn, Courtney Moore, (Forsyth County District Attorney's Office), Cumming, for Appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1013

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated battery and other crimes over defendant's challenge to how trial court responded to notes from jury, and to jury instructions

  • Court of Appeals: September 9, 2021

    Publication Date: 2021-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals, New York State
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Court of Appeals: September 9, 2021

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Frier, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Aslean Eaglin, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1054

    Defendant Impliedly Consented to Mistrial By Failing to Object

  • Blake v. Tribe Express, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Minerva Steele, (Steele Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Appellant.
    for defendant: James Parks, (Attorney at Law), Dahlonega, Austin Perry, (McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe), Toccoa, Michael Hostetter, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, for Appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0672

    Court affirms summary judgment for employer in a dispute over whether an employee was within the scope of his employment when an accident occurred

  • Thomas v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bourliot
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-19-00685-CR

    Appellant challenged his conviction for continuous violence against a family member, arguing that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of an extraneous offense under article 38.371 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure on the grounds that (1) the statute on its face violated his constitutional rights to due process and (2) the evidence was admitted in violation of Rule of Evidence 404(b).

  • Ellis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-09-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, Roswell, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher Allen Arnt, Lynsay Peardon Chapman, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Lafayette, for Appellee.

    Case Number: S21A0780

    Court affirms malice murder conviction over defendant's contentions that his Miranda waiver was improper due to intoxication, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776 v. Takeda Pharm. Co. Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-01
    Practice Area: Patent Litigation
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Richard Wesley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-1994-cv

    Combination Patent Does Not 'Claim' Component Drug Substances Past Expiration Dates

  • Watanabe v. Summit Path Partners

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 01-19-00302-CV

    While working as a valet, appellant was injured in an assault in a parking lot and he sued his employers as well as the owner and operator of the parking lot.

  • In Re Shire

    Publication Date: 2021-08-30
    Practice Area: Antitrust | Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 06-21-00016-CV

    Health Choice Advisory brought a qui tam action under the Texas Medicaid Fraud Prevention Act against Shire alleging it violated anti-kickback provisions of the Act by implementing two marketing programs that incentivized medical providers to prescribe certain pharmaceutical products covered by the Texas Medicaid Program.

  • Haverkamp v. Linthicum

    Publication Date: 2021-08-23
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 20-40337

    Texas state prisoner David Allen Haverkamp, also known as Bobbie Lee Haverkamp, a biological male at birth who identifies as a transgender woman, sued state officials for violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.