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  • Wade v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Winchester (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anna Green Cross, Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo (DeKalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0327

    Although the evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and related offenses arising out of the beating death of his girlfriend's 18-month-old son, the Court vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing because the trial court erred in failing to merge certain counts.

  • 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.

  • Cope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0313

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions related to the death of his brothers' roommate and the trial court did not err in admitting two statements defendant made to police after the murder.

  • LVNV Funding v. Sengillo

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Monroe
    Judge: Justice Thomas Stander
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Tess E. Gunther, Esq., Co-counsel, Forster & Garbus, LLP, Commack, New York.
    for defendant: Mallory K. Smith, Esq., Co-counsel, Davidson Fink LLP, Rochester, New York.; Attorney for Defendant: David M. Kaplan, Esq., Penfield, New York.
    Case Number: 2017/05221

    Debtor Fails to Sufficiently Establish Entitlement to Summary Judgment Against Debt Buyer

  • Caldwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth D. Kondritzer (Fulton County Solicitor General's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, David K. Getachew-Smith Sr. (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0640

    The trial court did not manifestly abuse its discretion in refusing to strike three potential jurors for cause in defendant's felony murder trial arising out of the beating death of his girlfriend's 15-month-old daughter.

  • Dalton v. Dalton

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-0155

    Texas granted a couple a divorce incorporating by reference an order from an Oklahoma court regarding spousal support.

  • American K-9 v. Freeman

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hecht
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 15-0932

    A civilian on a military base in Afghanistan was bit by a dog and sued her employer, the employer's carrier, and the private military contractors that handled the dogs, alleging negligent training of the dogs.

  • Cont'l Ins. Co. v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaVecchia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew T. Frankel (Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, attorneys; Stefano V. Calogero, of counsel; Stefano V. Calogero, Andrew T. Frankel, Tanya M. Mascarich, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Michael J. Lynch (K&L Gates, attorneys; Michael J. Lynch, Donald E. Seymor, John T. Waldron, and Donald W. Kiel, on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-21-16 (078152)

    New Jersey Law Applied to Insurance Liability Allocation Dispute as Domicile of Insured with Significant Factual Relationship to Case

  • Matter of S.B.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Family Law | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Supreme Court, Chemung
    Judge: Justice David Guy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Petitioner was represented by Scolaro Fetter Grizanti & McGough, P.C., Douglas J. Mahr, Esq. and Gina M. Glover, Esq., of counsel.
    for defendant: Robert L. Halpin, Esq., The Halpin Law Firm, was appointed counsel by the Court to represent AIP.; Mental Hygiene Legal Service (3rd Dept.), Richard Wenig, Esq., of counsel, was appointed by the Court as Court Evaluator.; Denice Hamm, Esq., Hamm & Roe, LLP, represented sister of petitioner.
    Case Number: 2017-1474

    AIP Cannot be Compelled to Undergo Requested Evaluation Denying Article 81 Petition

  • Roff-Wexler v. Morandi LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Sherry Heitler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 160031/15

    Fact Issue of Entity Responsible for Sidewalk Where Plaintiff Fell Denies Summary Judgment