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  • Alvarez-Maldonado v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-06-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Daniel Porter, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, Brandon Delfunt, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0463

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Jury Finding That Defendant Was in Constructive Possession of Methamphetamine

  • Yakob et al. v. Kidist Mariam Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Inc

    Publication Date: 2021-04-21
    Practice Area: Corporate Governance | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Hinton, (Baker, Donelson, Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC), Atlanta, Forrest Norman, (Dickie, McCamey, Chilcote, PC), Cleveland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kyle Baker, John Richard, Sean Smith, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. George Koenig, (Koenig Law Group, P.C.), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A1696

    Court reverses one interlocutory order and affirms another in a dispute between a Church and an Archbishop that the Church sought to terminate

  • Copeland v. Home Grown Music, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-07
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Braden Copeland, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Foy Devine, Diane LaRoss, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Michael Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1721

    Court affirms summary judgment on investor's breach of contract claims as to payment of royalties, and reverses award of costs for defendant

  • Smith v. Laney et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Michael Braun, (Law Office of Michael R. Braun), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calanit Hayes, Rakhi McNeill, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, William Myers, (Myers & Stroberg), Gainesville, Jason Stewart, (Dennis, Corry, Smith, & Dixon LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1736

    Court affirms jury verdict for defendants in motor vehicle collision case over defendant's arguments that two defendants should not be considered separate entities

  • Sambou v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyette Holmes, Marietta, John Edwards, (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Lindsay Raynor, (Douglas County Solicitor General's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1764

    Court affirms convictions for identity fraud and forgery over defendant's contentions of trial court error and challenges to admission of evidence.

  • Cleveland v. Team RTR2, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-03-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Stoddard, Keith Evra, (The Stoddard Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Forestner, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Walter Yarbrough, (Fain, Major & Brennan, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2080

    Sexual Assault of a Spa Customer by a Massage Therapist Was Reasonably Foreseeable; Spa Had Superior Knowledge of the Risk of Harm

  • Beyond Meat, Inc. v. Don Lee Farms, A Division of Goodman Food Products, et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sada Baby, Halsey Knapp, (Krevolin & Horst LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Yeung, (Covington & Burling LLP), New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Clarke, Michael Ross, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Daniel Platt, Edward Lee, (Loeb & Loeb LLP), Los Angeles, Michael King, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1131

    Court vacates denial of a motion for a protective order and/or to quash a subpoena and remands case for reconsideration solely in view of the record before the trial court

  • Hagan et al. v. Hagan

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hagan, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Renee Neary, (Mayoue Gray Eittreim, PC), Atlanta, John Collar, (Boyd, Collar Nolen & Tuggle, LLC), Atlanta, Douglas Scribner, William Repko, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene Chambers, Paul Duckworth, (Eugene P. Chambers, III, P.C.), Atlanta, Joseph Sullivan, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1480

    Evidence Established Transfer of Ownership of Life Insurance Policy

  • Williams v. Korines

    Publication Date: 2020-07-28
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Peter Hall
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Michael Martin, Ian Weinstein, on the brief, Katherine Anne Boy Skipsey†, Fordham Law School, Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendants-Appellees: Barbara D. Underwood, Solicitor General, Victor Paladino, Senior Assistant Solicitor General, on the brief, Brian D. Ginsberg, Assistant Solicitor General, for Letitia James, Attorney General for the State of New York, Albany, NY.
    Case Number: 18-3050

    Rule Not Unconstitutionally Vague as to Photos of People Wearing Blue, Making Gang Signs

  • USA v, Lee

    Publication Date: 2020-07-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Costa
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 19-40435

    Lee ran Taylor Texas Medicine with her husband Taylor.