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  • In the Matter of Keith Chance Hardy.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith Chance Hardy, Columbus, for appellee; Delia T. Crouch, (Law Office of Delia T. Crouch), Newnan, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0869

    Disbarment Appropriate For Attorney Who Abandoned Clients, Converted Client Property, and Demonstrated Lack of Competence

  • In the Matter of Richard H. Middleton, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard H. Middleton, Jr. (Middleton LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, III, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0922

    Voluntary Surrender of License Appropriate Discipline Following Misuse of Client Funds in Single-Client Matter

  • State v. O'Donnell

    Publication Date: 2023-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Rabner
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo J. Hurley, Jr. (Connell Foley, attorneys; Leo J. Hurley, Jr., of counsel and on the briefs, and Alexa C. Salcito and Brian K. Dempster, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Angela Cai, Deputy Solicitor General (Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General, attorney; Angela M. Cai, Jeremy M. Feigenbaum, Solicitor General, and Jennifer E. Kmieciak, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel and on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-17-22 (087023)

    Candidate Could Be Charged with Official Bribery Even Though They Lost Election

  • Wood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, III, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0637

    Evidence Did Not Support Defendant's Claim He Shot Victim in Self-Defense

  • A.S. v City of New York

    Publication Date: 2023-08-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Alexander M. Tisch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 950407/2021

    Summary Judgment Denied in Child Abuse Case as Affidavits Not Found Conclusive Enough

  • Moller v. West 128th St. L.P.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-16
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Frank P. Nervo
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 655336/2021

    Contract Not Unconscionable, Court Finds, as Terms were Not Unreasonable

  • ARK250 DOE v Archdiocese of N.Y.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Laurence L. Love
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 950333/2020

    Defendant's Motion to Reargue in Child Sexual Abuse Case Denied; Pleadings to be Replead

  • AV v. LV

    Publication Date: 2023-08-15
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Richmond
    Judge: Justice Ronald Castorina Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 50095/2023

    Court Grants Mother Custody, Support and Order of Protection in Divorce Proceedings

  • Georgia CVS Pharmacy, LLC v. Carmichael

    Publication Date: 2023-08-15
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Brian David Trulock, (Magmutual Insurance Company), Atlanta, Carrie A. Moss, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Keith Robert Blackwell, William Joseph Repko, III, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Peter Andrew Law, Brian Colty Kaplan, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, James Alexander Rice, Jr., Andrew J. Brandt, (James A. Rice, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, , for appellee; Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, Valentin Leppert, Martha Banner Banks, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Rebecca Woods, Esther Slater McDonald, (Seyfarth Shaw LLP.), Atlanta, Adeline K Lambert, Kyle D. Hawkins, Drew F. Waldbeser, (Lehotsky Keller LLP), Atlanta, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Martin Adam Levinson, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Amicus Appellant; Gilbert H. Deitch, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips, William Michael D'Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0527

    Court rules that in premises liability cases, the reasonable foreseeability of a third-party criminal act is a factual determination linked to a proprietor's obligations

  • Aksai Holdings LLC v Kramer

    Publication Date: 2023-08-09
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Adam Silvera
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 655594/2021

    Tenants Must Pay for Damages and for Unjust Enrichment When in Violation of Lease Terms