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  • Pyne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kalki Yalamanchili, (Y’Chili Law LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0670

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes, and rejects claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and improper closing argument by prosecutor

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • September 18, 2024 | Daily Report Online

    Which Comes First: Discretionary or Interlocutory Appeal? High Court Tackles Procedural Dispute

    "For you to prevail, I think you need to be able to show that the renewal action is the same 'the case' in which the voluntary dismissal was filed," Presiding Justice Nels S. D. Peterson told appellee counsel during oral arguments.

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  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances C. Kuo, Jonathan O. Oden, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0633

    Court affirms convictions in a stabbing death, and rejects defendant's claims of jury instruction error and admission of hearsay evidence as not being reversible plain error

  • In the Matter of Susan Michele Brown.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa Elizabeth Lazzaroni, Lupo, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y1211

    Court rejects attorney's petition for voluntary discipline because her actions in her role as a trustee were outside of her legal practice and GRPC scope does not extend to her fiduciary actions.

  • Georgia Department of Community Health v. Houston Hospitals, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, Charles Thimmesch, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Jeffrey Stump, Chelsea Harvey, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Bring, (Arnall, Golden, Gregory), Atlanta, Michael Gray, (Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Moore, LLP), Perry, for appellee; Kathlynn Polvino, (KBP Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0424

    Court affirms denial of certificates of need for a proposed freestanding emergency healthcare department

  • L'Oreal USA, Inc. et al. v. Burroughs

    Publication Date: 2024-07-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Products Liability
    Industry: Consumer Products
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Eason, (Barnes & Thornburg LLP), Atlanta, Dennis Ellis, Katherine Murray, Nicholas Begakis, (Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP), Los Angeles, David Clarke, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nkosi Bey, (Bey & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Elizabeth Stone, Darren Summerville, Alison Currie, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Tina Bullock, (Bullock Ward Mason), Acworth, Danielle Mason, (Bullock Ward Mason), Atlanta, for appellee; Mark Johnson, (Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford & Martin, P. C.), Brunswick, Lori Leskin, (Arnold & Porter), Newyork, Leah Schultz, (Arnold & Porter), Houston, Rhonda Trotter, (Arnold & Porter), Houston, Ronald Masterson, Candis Jones, (Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Donna Welch, (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Chicago, Sierra Elizabeth, (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Los Angeles, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0313

    Court addresses statute of repose and preemption issues and affirms in part, reverses in part, and remands product liability and fraud claims in chemical hair relaxer product liability case

  • McCabe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Sheila Ann Ross, (Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Georgia), Morrow, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0293

    Court affirms felony murder convictions despite defendants' claims of insufficient evidence, juror misconduct, trial court error, and claims of ineffective assistance

  • In the Matter of Diana Y. McDonald.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-16
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S23Y1195

    Court dismisses attorney's petition to retire from legal practice and instead orders disbarment due to multiple ethical violations involving misuse of client funds