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  • People (ex rel. Rende) v. Brann

    Publication Date: 2020-06-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx
    Judge: Justice Steven Hornstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 400064-2020

    Court Grants Inmate's Writ of Habeas Corpus Under Extraordinary Threat of COVID-19

  • Hudson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Michael Burns, Jr., (The Law Office of David M. Burns, Jr.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0218

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to denial of jury instructions and limitations to cross-examination

  • In the Matter of Marta Maria Noriega-Allen

    Publication Date: 2020-05-21
    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, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marta Maria Noriega-Allen, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20Y0421

    Disbarment Warranted For Attorney Who Never Responded to Grievance Alleging Abandonment of Client and Failure to Return Unearned Fees

  • Quality King Distrib. Inc. v. Chip Fifth Ave. LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-05-12
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Distribution and Wholesale | Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Paul Goetz
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 654924/2016

    No Wrongful Eviction Existed Where Tenant's Subtenants Remained on the Property

  • Brewer v. Lennox Hearth Products, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-05-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Guzman
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    Case Number: 18-0426

    The trial court sanctioned attorney Brewer for commissioning a pretrial survey that commenced in the county of suit shortly before trial in a products-liability and wrongful-death suit.

  • In re Commitment of Jones

    Publication Date: 2020-05-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Civil Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 19-0260

    The court was asked to determine whether a final verdict for the defendant, declining to find that the defendant is a sexually violent predator, must be unanimous, as is required for a civil-commitment verdict finding that the defendant is an SVP.

  • Bush v. Lone Oak Club, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-05-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Legislation | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
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    Case Number: 18-0264

    This case involved a title dispute between the State and a private landowner over portions of the submerged bed of Lone Oak Bayou, a navigable body of water located near the Gulf of Mexico.

  • In re Abbott

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 20-0291

    Plaintiffs alleged that Executive Order GA-13, which changed the rules applicable to judges' decisions regarding pre-trial bail and suspended certain statutes authorizing trial judges to release jail inmates with violent histories during the current state of disaster, was unconstitutional and exceeded the governor's statutory emergency powers.

  • People (ex rel. Coleman) v. Brann

    Publication Date: 2020-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx
    Judge: Justice Lester Adler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for the People by: Tim Lynch, Jie Xiang, Masateru Marabashi, Johanna Lerner, Simon Folkard, Robert McIver, Esqs., Office of the District Attorney, Bronx Co.
    for defendant: Attorney for Petitioners by: Daniel Hamburg, Ilona Coleman, Annette Lee, Archana Prakash, Pezhmon Zaiim, Emily Prokesch, Deborah Lolai, and Ruth Hamilton, Esqs., the Bronx Defenders. Attorney for the New York State Department of Corrections Community Supervision by: Jeb Harben, Esq., Office of the Attorney General.
    Case Number: 260252/20

    Detainees Denied Release on Constitutional Prohibition of Cruel, Unusual Punishment Claims

  • Corley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teri L. Thompson, (Law Office of Teri Thompson, LLC), Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0214

    Note From Jury to Trial Court Delivered During Deliberation Did Not Establish Jury Had Reached Final Verdict