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  • RCC Wesley Chapel Crossing, LLC et al. v. Forrest Allen et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Bibbins, Brittanie Danielle Browning, John E. Hall, Jr., (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Ryan Matthew Ingram, David Patrick Conley, Marie Wilcox, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Kenan G. Loomis, (Cozen O'Connor), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Quinn Wetherington, Sr., Robert Neil Friedman, (Wetherington Law Firm), Atlanta for appellee; Andrew Alan Pinson, (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Colquitt Rogers, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, Kimberly D. Stevens, Willie C. Ellis, Jr., LeRyan Paige Lambert, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0029

    Court vacates and remands a class action case that addressed a private property owner's right to immobilize vehicles improperly parked on the owner's property

  • In the Matter of Megan Kate Andrews.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Megan Kate Andrews, Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Allen Earles, Rebecca S. Mick, Kevin Charles Wilson, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21Z1222

    Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Consider Whether Board of Bar Examiners Erred in Denying Application for Admission to State Bar on Motion Without Examination

  • The State v. Houston

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kenneth D. Kondritzer, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Keith Elliott Gammage, (Fulton County Solicitor General's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0957

    Habeas Court Properly Found Defendant Was Not Advised of His Right to Counsel at Plea Hearing

  • Whole Woman's Health v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2021-12-10
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Supreme Court
    Judge: Judge Gorsuch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-463

    Plaintiffs may not enjoin state court clerks or judges from docketing or hearing cases filed under Texas Heartbeat Act

  • Stafford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Richard Benjamin Caplan, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0767

    If Any, in Admitting Evidence of Earlier Crimes Was Harmless

  • Beaudette v. Infantino

    Publication Date: 2021-11-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Warren
    Judge: Justice Martin Auffredou
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: Paul H. Wein, of counsel, LaFave, Wein & Frament, PLLC, Guilderland.
    for defendant: For Defendants: Keith M. Frary, of counsel, Santacrose & Frary, Albany. For Nonparty Experts: Donald P. Ford, Jr., of counsel, Maguire Cardona, P.C.
    Case Number: 60039

    Non-Parties' Motion to Quash Subpoenas on Documents Seeking Financial Records Denied

  • Harper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen H Brouse, (Brouse Law), Blue Ridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Ellen Patterson, Morgan Birdsong Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0813

    Trial Court Did Not Err When it Failed to Instruct Court Reporter to Transcribe the Entirety of the Jury Selection Proceedings, Including Voir Dire

  • American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. v. Zeh

    Publication Date: 2021-11-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John P. Batson, (The Law Office of John P. Batson), Augusta, Leslie K. Eason, Tiffany N. Taylor, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Atlanta, Sean Jengwei Young, Brian Matthew Hauss, Andres M. Lopez-Delgado, (American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Of Georgia, Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent J. Savage, Kathryn Hughes Pinckney, (Savage Turner Pinckney & Savage), Savannah, for appellee; David E. Hudson, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for Other Party; Clare Rivka Norins, (First Amendment Clinic), Athens, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20G1473

    Actual Malice Standard Applies to Public Official, Who Fails to Show in Defamation Claim That ACLU Disbelieved Truth of Disputed Statements in Blog Post

  • The State v. Henry

    Publication Date: 2021-11-10
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jefferson Frisby Upchurch, (Henry County Judicial Center), McDonough, Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Chadwell Creal, Jr., (George C. Creal, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee; Omeeka P. Loggins, (Augusta-Richmond County Solicitor General’s Office), Augusta, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council Of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant; Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (Paulding County Public Defender’s Office), Dallas, David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Lawrenceville, Kimberly A. Dymecki, Peachtree Corners, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S20G1339

    Court Rejects 'Reasonably Could' Standard in Favor of a 'Reasonably Would' Standard in Evaluating Counsel's Failure to Object to Admission of Blood Test

  • Miller v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Michael Johnson, Nashville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1245

    Trial Court Properly Concluded That Claimed Discrepancies in Evidence and Testimony Did Not Mandate New Trial