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  • Marion A. Allen, Inc. et al. v. Blake C. Johnston et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Adams, (Adams Law Firm), Fort Valley, Joseph Bloodworth, (Bush, Crowley, Leverett & Leggett, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Fox, (Adams, Hemingway & Wilson, LLP), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0213

    Court reverses denial of summary judgment in real estate fraud case, concluding that there was no factual dispute that property purchasers had failed to exercise due diligence after notice of defect

  • Upstate Jobs Party v. Kosinski

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants: Edward Wenger & Phillip Michael Gordon, on the brief, Shawn Toomey Sheehy, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Haymarket, VA; Michael Burger, Santiago Burger LLP, Rochester, NY, on the brief.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees: Jeffrey W. Lang, Deputy Solicitor General, on the brief, Sarah L. Rosenbluth, Assistant Solicitor General, for Letitia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 21-2518

    Parties, Independent Bodies Not Similar; Judgment as to Campaign Limits Partly Upheld

  • Paxton v. Dettlebach

    Publication Date: 2024-07-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Clement
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23-10802

    Appellants, three individuals and the State of Texas, sought to enjoin federal statutes that criminalize making silencers for personal use without paying a $200 excise tax, applying for permission from the federal government, and registering the silencer in a federal database.

  • Snellings v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner, (Law Offices of Robert Kenner, Jr.), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney's Office), Conyers, Nathan Stuckey, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0492

    Court reverses trial court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence because traffic stop was unreasonably prolonged in a DUI case

  • Drabinsky v. Actor's Equity Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Antitrust | Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Raymond J. Lohier, Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Jarod Bona, Bona Law PC, La Jolla, CA; Molly Donovan, Bona Law PC, New York, NY; Aaron Gott, Bona Law PC, Minneapolis, MN; Richard Alan Roth, The Roth Law Firm, PLLC, New York, NY; Joshua D. Wright, Lodestar Law & Economics, PLLC, McLean, VA, on the brief, Luke Hasskamp, Bona Law PC, La Jolla, CA.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: David L. Greenspan, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY; Evan Hudson-Plush, Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, New York, NY, on the brief, Jeffrey L. Kessler, Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae AFL-CIO in support of Defendant-Appellee: Andrew Lyubarsky, Matthew Ginsburg, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, DC.
    Case Number: 23-795-cv

    Antitrust Claims Barred; Union Acted in Self-Interest of Protecting Its Members' Wages

  • Razavi v. Emily

    Publication Date: 2024-07-10
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ehsan Razavi, Atlanta, Dale Montpelier, (The Garza Law Firm), Knoxville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jay Shreenath, (Shreenath and Associates), Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0289

    Court affirms findings of trespass finding and property rights but reverses damages award for conversion, and vacates attorney fees award with direction for clarification of basis of that award

  • In re Chamber of Commerce of the United States

    Publication Date: 2024-07-08
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Civil Appeals | Regulation
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Willett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 24-10463

    On March 5, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a Final Rule that decreased the previously applicable safe harbor amount for credit card late fees from $30 and $41 to $8 under the Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act.

  • Braidwood Mgmt., Inc. v. Becerra

    Publication Date: 2024-07-08
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Constitutional Law | Health Care Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Willett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-10326

    The Affordable Care Act of 2010 requires private insurers to cover certain preventive care, including contraception, human papilloma virus vaccines, and drugs preventing the transmission of HIV without cost sharing.

  • Meadows v. Dollar General Store

    Publication Date: 2024-07-04
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Johnson, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erica Morton, Jordan Mahoney, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0347

    Court affirms summary judgment for Dollar General in premises liability case where injured plaintiff had equal knowledge of a hazardous condition that was static, open, and obvious

  • Jones v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2024-06-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Kelly
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-22-00283-CR

    Officers were speaking with appellant about an incident when he pushed an officer's arm and moved quickly toward the officer's face.