• February 3, 2025 | Daily Report Online

    28 Firms Supporting Retired Barnes & Thornburg Litigator in Georgia Supreme Court Malpractice Case

    The amicus filers, who include King & Spalding, Alston & Bird and a number of their Big Law peers, say James Leonard is protected by the doctrine of "judgmental immunity."

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  • Wilson et al. v. Inthachak et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ranse Murphy Partin, William Kent Owens, Jr., James Thomas Cox, (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, James D. Hudson, (James D. Hudson, P.C.), Douglas, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Richard Dekle, Sr., Sandra E. Vinueza Foster, Wiley A. Wasden, III, (Brennan & Wasden LLP), Savannah, for appellee; Jarome Gautreaux, (Gautreaux Law, LLC), Macon, for Amicus Appellant; Gregory Gaines Sewell, (Bouhan Falligant, LLP), Savannah, Pamela Newsom Lee, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Freeman Mathis & GARY, LLP), Atlanta, Patrick N. Silloway, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Philip C. Thompson, (Duane Morris LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S23A1095

    Court returns case to appellate court, which was divided equally on the application of a particular issue, due to lack of equal division jurisdiction

  • Brookins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josh David Moore, Thea Adele Delage, (Office of the Georgia Capital Defender), Atlanta, Michael Boland Admirand, Katherine L. Moss, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, Sydney Elizabeth Segers, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Milledgeville, for appellee; Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for other party

    Case Number: S22P0556

    No Error in Jury's Decision to Find Capital Defendant Not "Mentally Retarded" or "Mentally Ill"

  • Hooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Jillian H. GibsonBradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0289

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to trial court's failure to give a jury instruction on corroboration of confessions

  • September 20, 2018 | Daily Report Online

    Judge OKs Trial for Deputy Who Orchestrated Ex-Wife's Arrest for Facebook Post

    A federal judge in Macon on Thursday refused to throw out Sandersville resident Anne King's abuse of authority lawsuit against her ex-husband—a captain in the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

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  • June 14, 2018 | Daily Report Online

    Lane Young Recalled as Legal 'Renaissance Man'

    Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young partner H. Lane Young built a reputation as a tireless litigator and trial lawyer defending legal malpractice, toxic tort and catastrophic injury cases during his 42 years with the firm.

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  • November 30, 2016 | Daily Report Online

    High Court Directs Judicial Watchdog Agency to Reconsider Open-Courts Opinion

    The Supreme Court of Georgia has ordered the state Judicial Qualifications Commission to reconsider its three-year-old advisory opinion that prohibits the state’s judges from barring t

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  • July 7, 2016 | Daily Report Online

    Georgia Justices Toss $10M Asbestos Verdict

    A ruling on one expert witness has toppled a $10 million jury verdict from a monthlong asbestos exposure trial six years ago. The trial court judge was wrong to allow the witness to t

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  • January 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online

    Georgia Supreme Court Weighs a $5M Question About Expert Testimony

    More than $5 million is riding on whether the Georgia Supreme Court holds that the plaintiffs' expert witness in an asbestos trial met the scientific standard set by the U.S. Supreme Cou

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  • January 11, 2016 | Daily Report Online

    Georgia Supreme Court Weighs a $5M Question About Expert Testimony

    More than $5 million is riding on whether the Georgia Supreme Court holds that the plaintiffs' expert witness in an asbestos trial met the scientific standard set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1993.

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