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  • In the Matter of David John Pettinato.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren Raymond Hinds, (Warren R. Hinds, P.C.), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0434

    Ten-Day Suspension Appropriate as Reciprocal Discipline For Similar Discipline Impose on Georgia Attorney Licensed in Florida

  • In the Matter of L. Nicole Hamilton.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-30
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, Jenny K. Mittelman, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. Nicole Brantley, Rincon, for appellee; Quentin LaMont Marlin, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0201

    Six-Month Suspension Appropriate Discipline Following Attorney's Failure to Return Unearned Fees and Timely Pay Arbitration Award

  • Monroe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-29
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Morgan Mason, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jennifer Rue Smith, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1116

    Misconduct of Two Jurors Did Not Require Mistrial

  • Allaben v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan O. Oden, (Appellant Division of Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, Agatha K. Romanowski, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0061

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Support Jury's Finding Murder Might Have Been Committed In County Where Defendant Was Tried

  • March 16, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Not a Penny Over $250K: Court Upholds Georgia's Cap on Punitive Damages

    The majority opinion also drew mixed reactions from the justices. Several penned special concurrences, but at least one drafted a partial dissent.

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  • Norris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-16
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1166

    Trial Counsel Not Ineffective For Failing to Impeach One of Several Physicians Who Described Child's History of Injuries

  • In the Matter of Muhammad Abdul-Warit Abdur-Rahim.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-10
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson, Jr., (Lawson & Thornton, P.C.), Atlanta, Muhammad Abdul-Warit Abdur-Rahim, (Mars Law LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, James Stephen Lewis, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee; Joshua Clark Bell, (Joshua C. Bell, LLC), Whigham, John Ryd Bush Long, (John R. B. Long, P.C.), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: S20Y0209

    Suspension From Practice Appropriate Discipline For Attorney Who Failed to Appear at Date and Time Specified For Reprimand

  • March 8, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Ga. Supreme Court Denies Review of Hays, Potter & Martin's Sanctions, $297K Fine

    "Though the amount of the sanctions was large, the appeal did not raise any issue of law worthy of the court's attention," appellee attorney Bruce Brown said.

    4 minute read

  • March 7, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Supreme Court of Georgia Disbars 1, Suspends 1, Accepts 1 License Surrender and 1 Suspension

    Georgia's high court issued four attorney discipline opinions Tuesday.

    40 minute read

  • February 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online

    Reversed on Appeal: Supervising Physicians Not Vicariously Liable for Physician Assistants' Conduct

    "The language of the [Physician Assistant Act] does not expressly impose vicarious liability on supervising physicians for the negligent acts of their [physician assistants]," the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled. "The General Assembly knows how to impose liability by statute when it chooses to, and we will not read into the PAA language that the General Assembly did not include."

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