• Love v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2025-01-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 03-23-00281-CR

    A jury convicted appellant of continuous sexual abuse of a young child and assessed his punishment at life imprisonment.

  • Mohsin v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2024-05-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 03-22-00175-CR

    Appellant was convicted by a jury of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury to a family or household member, his wife, and sentenced to fifty years in prison.

  • Holmes v. Christie

    Publication Date: 2021-10-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    Judge: Justice Smith
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Michalski (Steptoe & Johnson); Steven Reed, Jessica I. Rothschild, and Mark C. Savignac (Steptoe & Johnson)
    for defendant: Deborah A. Hay and Christopher C. Josephson (Office of the Attorney General of New Jersey)

    Case Number: 19-1089

    Inmate Need Only Show Significant Possibility That Changes to Parole System During Incarceration Affected Outcome of Successive Hearing

  • Kaplan v. Reed Smith LLP

    Publication Date: 2019-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs‐Appellees-Cross‐Appellants: Leonard Weintraub, Ari J. Silverman, on the brief, Anthony Paduano, Paduano & Weintraub LLP, New York, NY
    for defendant: For Plaintiffs‐Appellees- Cross‐Appellants: on the brief, Marc I. Gross, Michelle S. Carino, Pomerantz LLP, New York, NY; For Plaintiffs‐Appellees- Cross‐Appellants: on the brief, Ethan D. Wohl, Krista T. Rosen, Sara J. Wigmore, Wohl & Fruchter LLP, New York, NY For Appellant‐Cross‐Appellee: Andrew J. Levander, on the brief, Gary J. Mennitt, Dechert LLP, New York, NY.

    Case Number: 17-4067-cv

    Injunction of Claims Over Concurrent Representation Proper Under Anti-Injunction Act

  • Smith v. McTaggart

    Publication Date: 2017-11-01
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenda Gardner (The Gardner Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nazish Ahmed (Ahmed Law Group), Lagrange, for appellee. Newton County Department of Family and Children Services, Covington, for other party.

    Case Number: A17A0701

    Appellant failed to file a timely notice of appeal from a final order in child custody proceedings; consequently, the Court did not have jurisdiction over his case and dismissed the appeal.

  • Smith v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2016-07-28
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Andrew Childers Childers, Schlueter Smith LLC, and Jonathan Johnson, Atlanta, for Smith. John Strauss, Covington, for Chupp. Lee Gillis and Duke Groover James Bates Brannan Groover LLP, Macon, for Georgia Farm Bureau.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A14A1824; A14A1825

    The Court of Appeals erred in holding, as a matter of first impression, that personal injury claims arising from lead poisoning due to lead-based paint ingestion were not excluded from coverage purs

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-02-19
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Smith, Unadilla, proceeded pro se. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A15A2110

    The Court vacated the defendant's convictions for robbery in violation of O.C.G.A. 16-8-40 a 1 by using force to take the victim's vehicle from the person and immediate presence of the victim and t

  • JOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C. D/B/A THE GIBSON LAW FIRM, CLIFFORD D. PEEL, II, AND ANDREW C. SMITH, Appellees

    Publication Date: 2015-10-09
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    Date Filed: 2015-09-10
    Court: COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTON
    Judge: Marc W. Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-14-00731-CV

    COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTONJOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C.

  • JOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C. D/B/A THE GIBSON LAW FIRM, CLIFFORD D. PEEL, II, AND ANDREW C. SMITH, Appellees

    Publication Date: 2015-09-10
    Practice Area:
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    Date Filed: 2015-09-10
    Court: COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTON
    Judge: Marc W. Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 14-14-00731-CV

    COURT OF APPEALS OF TEXAS, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT, HOUSTONJOSEPH PRESSIL, Appellant v. JASON A. GIBSON, JASON A. GIBSON, P.C.

  • Smith v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-10
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Andrew Childers Childers, Schlueter Smith LLC, and Jonathan Johnson, Atlanta, for Smith. John Strauss, Covington, for Chupp. Lee Gillis and Duke Groover James Bates Brannan Groover, Macon, for Farm Bureau.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A14A1824; A14A1825

    The lead-based paint injuries in the underlying personal injury lawsuit were not excluded from coverage under the landlord's insurance policy's "pollution exclusion," since lead-based paint was not