• Appellate Division, First Department: December 30, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:December 24, 2024

  • Moody v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Morrison, (The Morrison Firm), Atlanta, Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, Michael Boland Admirand, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for Other Party.

    Case Number: S23P0046

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes and a sentence of death over defendant's multiple challenges and in view of statutory requirements for the death penalty

  • USA v. Rahimi

    Publication Date: 2023-03-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Wilson
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    Case Number: 21-11001

    Appellant was involved in five shootings in and around Arlington, Texas.

  • Orens v. Amherst Police Dep't

    Publication Date: 2022-10-07
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, U.S. - WDNY
    Judge: District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo
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    Case Number: 20-CV-778

    Dismissal of Erie County, Its Sheriff's Office From §1983 Rights Lawsuit Is Explained

  • March 17, 2021 | Insurance Coverage Law Center

    Appeal of Andrew Panaggio N.H. Comp. Appeals Bd.

    The Supreme Court of New Hampshire ruled that the Controlled Substances Act neither prohibited nor made it illegal to reimburse an injured employee for the costs of medical marijuana when the employee was a "qualified patient" under the state's therapeutic cannabis program.

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  • November 7, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Toxic Mold Allegation Unable to Expand Workers' Comp Intentional Wrong Exception

    Insights from a recent Workers' Compensation decision in the Appellate Division.

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  • Park v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Citronberg, Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Tina Michelle Piper, Paula Khristian Smith, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Vincent James Faucette, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S18A1211

    Statute that required persons designated as sexually dangerous predators to wear GPS devices for life is declared unconstitutional

  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.

    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Meadows v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-05-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Andrew Barnes, Macon; James W. Davis (James W. Davis & Associates), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Karl David Cooke Jr., John Allen Regan, Dorothy Vinson Hull (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: S18A0314

    Trial Court Declared Mistrial Without Sufficient Factual Support and Without Considering Less Drastic Alternatives

  • March 6, 2018 |

    Fire Ins. Exch. v. Oltmanns

    Click Here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis Fire Ins. Exch. v. OltmannsSupreme Court of UtahFebruary 28, 2018, FiledNo. 20160304 FIRE INSURANCE…

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