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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

  • 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

  • The State v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    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

  • The State v. Britton

    Publication Date: 2023-06-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Michael Scott Carlson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Kelcee Nikki Jones-Connor, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jessica M. Sully, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Lauren Beth Shubow, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0102

    Affidavit Statement in Support of Search Warrant Did Not Contain Material Misrepresentation or Falsehood

  • Taylor v. The Devereux Foundation, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Constitutional Law | Damages | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Timothy Rogers, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips William Michael D’Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Melvin L. Hewitt, Jr., Hilary Wayne Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Farish Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, Jeff Sandman, (Webb, Daniel, Friedlander, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Maxwell Kent Thelen, Andrew Steven Ashby, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Ross Warren Bergethon, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Matthew J. Rubenstein, (Jones Day), Minneapolis, Letitia A. McDonald, Robert B. Friedman, Erin Munger, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Anna Sumner Pieschel, Philip S. Goldberg, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, David Christopher Hanson, (The Hanson Firm), Atlanta, Anthony J. Sebok, (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), New York John C.P. Goldberg, (Harvard Law School), Cambridge, for Amicus Appellee; Rosser Adams Malone, (Malone Law Office), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jeffrey R. White, (Center for Constitutional Litigation, P.C.), Washington, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, James D. Meadows, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edward Daly, Elissa Blache Haynes, P. Michael Freed, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S22A1060

    Statutory Cap on Punitive Damages Does Not Violate State Constitutional Right to Jury Trial

  • The State et al. v. SASS Group, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Tina Michelle Piper, Cristina Maria Correia, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Daniel Church, (The Church Law Firm, LLC), Roswell, Page Anthony Pate, (Pate, Johnson & Church, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Andrew (Andy) J. Welch, III, Warren Michael Tillery, Brandon Filson Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Smith, , Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Winder, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22A1243

    Suit For Declaratory Relief Naming Both State and County District Attorney as Defendants Was Barred by Sovereign Immunity

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. v. Henry County Board of Commissioners

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, Taylor Wayne Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Patrick DeBorde Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee; Walker L. Chandler, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree City, Mawuli M. Malcolm Davis, (The Davis Bozeman Law Firm), Decatur, for Other Party; Les A. Schneider, Thomas Leland Walker, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Martin Kenneth OToole, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Justin Tharpe Holcombe, (Skaar & Feagle, LLP), Woodstock, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0039

    Court concludes that an individual has stand to sue for injunctive relief to prevent removal of monuments, but community groups do not.

  • Camp v. Williams et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-28
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Kelly Camp, (Camp & Camp), Douglasville, Bryan Paul Tyson, Bryan Francis Jacoutot, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leslie Joy Suson, Michael Victor Coleman, Aaron Watson, Jonathan M. Nussbaum, (Thompson Hine LLP), Atlanta, Jeremy Todd Berry, Joseph Jay Siegelman, (Chilivis Grubman Dalbey & Warner, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0073

    Superior Court Had Statutory Authority to Reverse County Elections Board's Decision to Place Unqualified Candidate on Ballot