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  • In the Matter of Curtis Lee Allen

    Publication Date: 2024-11-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis Lee Allen, (Bush Ross PA), Tampa, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S25Y0025

    Court accepts attorney's amended petition for reciprocal discipline and imposes a ten-day suspension after attorney was found to have violated Florida Rules of Practice

  • Rana v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hillm, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Pareesa Hanna Amjadi, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0705

    Court affirms convictions for murder and related offenses, rejecting defendant's claims to trial court jury instruction error as harmless or unwarranted

  • Gonzalez v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Jeffrey Ronald Baxter, Tyler D. Fabbri, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Edward Epps, Tyler Marquis Gaines, (Epps Holloway Deloach & Hoipkemier LLC), Watkinsville, Barry L. Fitzpatrick, (Law Office of Lane Fitzpatrick), Danielsville, for appellee; Gene Patrick Hamilton, (America First Legal Foundation), Washington, Christopher Earnest Mills, (Spero Law LLC), Charleston, for Amicus Appellee; Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Gautreaux Law LLC), Macon, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0617

    Court affirms applicability of Open Records Act (ORA) to District Attorneys and denies immunity claims from DA who sought to dismiss an ORA enforcement action

  • Steel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Legal Operations
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alexander "Alex" Susor, (The Law Offices of Alex Susor, P.C.), Decatur, Colette Resnik Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Ural D.L. Glanville, (Fulton County Superior Court), Atlanta, for other party; Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, Edward Donald Tolley, (Cook & Tolley LLP), Athens, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A1245

    Court reverses contempt finding against attorney for failure to disclose source of information, citing due process violations and finding that the trial court judge should have recused himself

  • People v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2024-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Claudia Daniels-DePeyster
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 71485-24

    Evidence From Car Impoundment Suppressed, Statements From Defendant Allowed

  • Stefansky v. Kaufman

    Publication Date: 2024-11-12
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Aaron D. Maslow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Michael E. Norton of counsel, Norton & Associates LLC, New York City.
    for defendant: For Defendants: Jonathan Weg of counsel, Jacobowitz Newman Tversky, LLC, Cedarhurst.
    Case Number: 511073/2024

    Emails Confirming Attendance at Beth Din Did Not Constitute Agreement to Arbitrate

  • Pierce v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton , Clint Christopher Malcolm Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kelsey Smith, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, Tasha Monique Mosley, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0525

    Court affirms murder, arson, and gang convictions despite defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and claims of trial court error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Verhalen v. Akhtar

    Publication Date: 2024-10-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23-0885

    Petitioners Georgia Verhalen and Cindy Verhalen sued respondent for various forms of negligence based on a head injury Georgia suffered while she was in the care of respondents. Respondents filed motions for summary judgment.

  • Thomas v. Metropolitan Transp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-17
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Richard Tsai
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 158874/2019

    Initial Witness Testimony Not Sufficient, New Witness Ordered For Deposition

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Van Thomas, II, (Andrew V. Thomas II, PC), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, George Elemuel Barnhill, Ian Louis Sansot, (Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0647

    Court affirms convictions in a double murder case and rejects claims of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel