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  • Brock v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Michael Johnson, Nashville, Ryan C. Malone, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Emily Rebecca Polk, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jennifer Rue Smith, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0124

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of other acts evidence and claims of ineffective assistance

  • Brown et al. v. RAC Acceptance East, LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-02-28
    Practice Area: Contracts | Dispute Resolution
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell Le'roux Albert, III (Mitchell L. Albert III & Associates LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glianny Fagundo-Toro, Matthew Robert Rosenkoff (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta; Robert F. Friedman (Littler Mendelson, P.C), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G1097

    The trial court properly found that the delegation provision in the parties arbitration agreement clearly gave the arbitrator, not the courts, the authority to determine that defendant did not waive by prior litigation conduct its right to seek arbitration, and the arbitrators decision on the waiver question could not be properly challenged as legally erroneous.

  • Suntrust Bank v. Jedon M. Lilliston et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Wylie Cranshaw, Simon Robert Malko (Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent J. Savage, Brent Jamieson Savage, Jr., Kathryn Hughes Pinckney (Savage Turner & Pinckney PC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0433

    The Court of Appeals erred in holding that a partys demand for arbitration in a renewal action may be deemed waived based on that partys conduct in the earlier, original litigation because a renewal suit is a de novo action and, thus, a partys conduct in the original action has no bearing on the question of waiver in the recommenced action.