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  • June 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Guest or Tenant? Eviction Case Goes All the Way to Georgia Supreme Court and Back

    "The [Supreme Court of Georgia] said itself, 'the substance of the relationship controls,' and that's what we've been saying all along," said appellee counsel Lindsey Siegel of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

    6 minute read

  • Southern States Chemical, Inc. et al. v. Tampa Tank & Welding, Inc. f/k/a Tampa Tank Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Tucker Barr, Andrew Clay Stevens, Natalie Cascario, David Lee Hobson, Jeffrey Young Lewis, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, Edwin W. King, Jr., (Edwin W. King, Jr., P.C.), Savannah, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mike O’Neal Crawford, Swift S. Currie, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Cecily Joy McLeod, Kimberly Council Sheridan, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; LaTisha Dear Jackson, (DeKalb County Superior Court), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: S23A0273

    Court affirms dismissal of breach of warranty claims that were barred by the pre-amendment statute of repose

  • Knox et al. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea, Sharnell S. Simon, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Amanda K. Rice, (Jones Day), Detroit, for appellant.
    for defendant: Annette M. Cowart, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Michael Adam Caplan, (Caplan Cobb LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23A0167

    Trial Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Challenge to Statute Permitting Firearm Possession on College Campuses

  • McCalop v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffauf, (J. M. Raffauf P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Ashley Cecelia O’Neal, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0210

    Defense Witness Opened Door to Presenting Evidence of Defendant's Bad Character

  • May 10, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Gwinnett Delta-8 Raids Challenged in State Court of Appeals

    "I wish it was an oversimplification, but literally the state's position is, if you have a vial of concentrated delta-8 and you put it on a sandwich, that sandwich is now a controlled substance," plaintiff-appellant lawyer Tom Church said.

    4 minute read

  • May 9, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Court of Appeals to Eye Delta-8 Confiscation, Embryo Property Rights, Vaccinated Juror Selection

    The state Court of Appeals will hear six oral arguments this week. Here's a look at some of the most noteworthy ones.

    6 minute read

  • In the Matter of Claud L. McIver III.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0621

    Court accepts attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license to practice law in Georgia following his felony conviction for influencing a witness

  • In the Matter of Jason Lee Van Dyke.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lee Van Dyke, (The Marsala Law Group), Denton, for appellee; Daniel S. Reinhardt, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0225

    Court accepts Special master's recommendation to impose a 3-year suspension of an attorney's Georgia law license due to his plea in Texas criminal proceedings

  • In the Matter of Natalie Spires Paine.

    Publication Date: 2023-05-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Lauren Parker Purvis, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Bradley Robert Thompson, (Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0037

    Court dismisses State Bar's allegations of Rule violations against a prosecutor in a double murder case where attorney-client conversations were recorded

  • In the Matter of Willie George Davis, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0445

    Disbarment Warranted by Mishandling of Estate and Conservatorship, and Repeated Failures to Comply With Court Orders