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  • 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:
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    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:
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    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:
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    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:
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    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.

  • Vazemiller et al. v. Sanders

    Publication Date: 2021-08-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Turner, (Schulten Ward & Turner, LLP), Atlanta, Kevin McDonough, (Attorney at Law), Cumming, Deborah Pittman, (Miles Hansford and Tallant, LLC.), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Warner Hodges, Cumming; Theodore Spaulding, Cumming, Jeremy Hayes, (Spaulding Law LLC), Cumming, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1151

    Trial Court Erred in Concluding That Purchasers of Land Had Notice of Purported Landowner's Deed and Could Not Qualify as Bona Fide Purchasers for Value

  • Ruiz v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2021-08-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Trotter
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 11-18-00267-CR

    A criminal defendant, who was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison, failed to show that the decision was in error.

  • In the Matter of James Archie Barnett.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-16
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Allen Earles, Rebecca S. Mick, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Christopher M. Carr, Russell David Willard, Russell David Willard, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Archie Barnett, Fairburn, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Z1090

    Previously-Disbarred Attorney Demonstrated He Was Now Entitled to be Certified as Fit to Practice Law

  • Lane Dermatology et al. v. Smith et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Gristina, Carter Schondelmayer, Austin Gibson, (Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, P.C.), Columbus, James Sherman, (Stanley, Esrey & Buckley, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie Wood, Jared Miller, John Elliott, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP), Atlanta, Jerry Buchanan, Trisha Hargrove, (Buchanan & Land), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0582

    Communications Between Dermatologist's Former Employee and Patients Did Not Violate Non-Solicitation Provision