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  • Blach v. Diaz-Verson

    Publication Date: 2018-03-06
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Binford Minter (Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal, PC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurtis A. Powell (Hunton & Williams), Atlanta, for appellee. Robert J. Frey, Sarasota; Stephen G. Gunby, W. Fray McCormick (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC), Columbus, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Q1508

    Insurance Company Was Not "Financial Institution" When It Was Garnished Based on Earnings Owed as Debtor's Employer

  • In The Matter Of John F. Meyers.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, W. Matthew Wilson (Akin & Tate PC), Cartersville, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; David Anthony LaMalva, (LaMalva Geoffroy & Oeland PC), Conyers; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17Y1593

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney from the practice of law for two years for his violations of various Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in connection with improper billing to his law firm's corporate client.

  • The State v. Cohen

    Publication Date: 2017-11-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Privacy
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Acting Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard, Jr., Marc A. Mallon, F. McDonald Wakeford, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Steel (The Steel Law Firm, PC.), Atlanta; Bruce H. Morris (Finestone, Morris & White, LLP), Atlanta; Jimmy Dodd Berry (Jim D. Berry, PC), Marietta; Reid Thompson (Reid Thompson Law), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1265

    The trial court partially erred in dismissing charges against a woman and her attorneys arising out of an alleged conspiracy for the woman to secretly video record the defendant in a sexual harassment lawsuit her attorneys filed on her behalf and the subsequent transmission of a demand letter to that defendant.