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Hasan Al-Bari et al. v. Craig Pigg et al.

Publication Date: 2024-10-25
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Warren
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Bryan Francis Jacoutot, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Charlene Swartz McGowan, Bryan Keith Webb, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Manoj Sam Varghese, Kayla Polonsky, Jane D. Vincent, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S25A0177

Court affirms disqualification of electors for independent presidential candidates for failure to file petitions in their own names as required by OCGA § 21-2-132

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

Wierson v. The State

Publication Date: 2024-08-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Brown
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Rubin, (Peters, Rubin & Sheffield), Decatur, Kristen Novay, (Garland, Samuel and Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee; Justin Moore, (Aequitas Legal Services, LLC), Atlanta, Amanda Walker, (Office of the Public Defender, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for AM.
Case Number: A24A0241

Court affirms ruling allowing insanity defense and reverses an order allowing evidence of compliance with prescription medication in a vehicular homicide case

Inquiry Concerning Judge Christina Peterson.

Publication Date: 2024-07-31
Practice Area: Judges
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Courtney Mays Veal, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Marietta, Anna Green Cross, (Cross Kincaid LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Law Office of Elizabeth White), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court of Fulton County), Atlanta, Richard L. Hyde, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
Case Number: S22Z0180

Court affirms findings of Judicial Qualification Commission and orders removal of a probate judge due to her violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct

May 14, 2024 | National Law Journal

Judicial Candidate's Campaign Stance on Abortion Lands Before Federal Judge

"I have never decided or declared how I'd rule on any case," former U.S. Rep. John Barrow, D-Georgia, said Monday during a post-hearing press conference.

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May 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Supreme Court of Georgia Candidate's Campaign Stance on Abortion Lands Before Federal Judge

"I have never decided or declared how I'd rule on any case," former U.S. Rep. John Barrow said Monday during a post-hearing press conference.

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The State v. Franklin

Publication Date: 2024-02-06
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Jonathan Reuven Melnick, (Jonathan R. Melnick PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S23A0842

Court reverses trial court's suppression of statement taken while defendant was hospitalized and medicated, affirming the need for coercive police conduct for involuntariness

January 2, 2024 | Daily Report Online

In Atlanta Partner Moves, Big Law Looks to Real Estate and Transactional Practices

Real estate lawyers "are the folks who are going to be the real premium and who [firms will] go after," one Atlanta recruiter said.

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Tate-Jesurum v. The State

Publication Date: 2023-08-01
Practice Area: Criminal Law
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Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law, LLC), Newnan, for appellant.
for defendant: Anthony Williams, Matthew Rollins, (Paulding Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
Case Number: A23A0559

Court affirms denial of a defendant's general demurrer and plea in bar to charges of methamphetamine possession

Davis v. The State

Publication Date: 2023-06-22
Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice LaGrua
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S23A0166

No Brady Violation From Delayed Disclosure of Crime Scene Technician's Failure to Find Fingerprints on Shell Casing