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  • MacMaster v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks (Banks, Stubbs & McFarland, LLP), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Finch (Solicitor General of Forsyth County), Cumming; Caroline Yi (Forsyth County Solicitor's Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2083

    The trial court properly denied DUI defendant's motion in limine to exclude the admission of the results of the State-administered breath test, any evidence of her consent to the State-administered breath test and her refusal to take the Alco-Sensor test.

  • Harper v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-14-00641-CR

    Appellant was convicted of capital murder of multiple persons and sentenced to confinement for life.

  • GTECH v. James Steele

    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pemberton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 03-16-00172-CV

    Over 1,200 appellees joined the underlying action against appellant for its asserted discrepancies between instructions and actual parameters associated with appellants Game 5 scratch-off lottery tickets.

  • Estate of Francisco Rodriguez

    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Alvarez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 04-17-00005-CV

    This appeal stemmed from a lawsuit against non-party in his capacity as independent executor and trustee of a testamentary trust created by decedent.

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Overocker (Office of the Public Defender Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anne Allen (Assistant District Attorney Coweta Judicial Circuit), Carrollton; Peter Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1941

    The record supported the trial court's finding that the prosecutors failure to redact a video recording of defendant's interview with an investigator, which led to a mistrial, was not made purposefully to subvert double jeopardy protections and the trial court, therefore, did not err in denying defendant's plea in bar/motion in autrefois convict in which he contended that the double jeopardy clause barred his further prosecution for child molestation.

  • Anderson v. Lewis, et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Bodiford (Attorney at Law), Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell Davis, Michael Patterson (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellee. Ashley Howard (Lynn Leonard & Associates), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A1898

    In an automobile accident case, the dismissal of one defendant due to plaintiff's failure to perfect service on him did not constitute an adjudication on the merits and provided no basis for granting summary judgment for the other defendant, the first defendant's grandfather, as the dismissal was not fatal to the derivative liability claim under the family purpose doctrine.

  • Luttrell v. El Paso County

    Publication Date: 2018-01-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 08-16-00090-CV

    Appellants were four residents of El Paso who were found in contempt for failing to obey a jury summons.

  • Turrubiartes v. Olvera

    Publication Date: 2018-01-01
    Practice Area: Family Law | Immigration Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bland
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-16-00322-CV

    Following an altercation with a neighbor over allegations of an extramarital affair, appellant-mother separated from appellee-father and left with the children.

  • USA v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2017-12-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Software
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Costa
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-41264

    Appellant worked as the Information Technology Operations Manager for non-party Company, a software and webpage hosting company. Upset that a coworker had been fired, appellant embarked on a weekend campaign of electronic sabotage resulting in over $130,000 in costs to repair.

  • In the Estate of Mary E. Larson

    Publication Date: 2017-12-18
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jamison
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-16-00587-CV

    Appellants, decedents daughters and beneficiaries under her will, challenged the trial courts orders approving the payment out of decedents estate of certain expenses and attorneys fees.