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  • Barrow v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Tomlinson, III, Charles W. Byrd, George "Buddy" Darden, Michael Jonathan Moore, Michael P Morrill, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Russell David Willard, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, Elizabeth Ann Penland, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Joyce Gist Lewis, Adam Martin Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Monica Joy Hanrahan, (Hanrahan Freitag Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A1029

    Secretary of State Could Not be Compelled to Hold Election in May For Position of Supreme Court Justice Whose Prospective Resignation In November Was Irrevocable

  • Hill v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Rupp Cribbs, Veronica M. O'Grady, (Georgia Public Defender Council - Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Allen Arnt, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0285

    Order Requiring Criminal Defendant to be Visibly Shackled During Six-Day Jury Trial Was Reversible Error

  • Morris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric C. Crawford, (Crawford & Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Leslie Anna Coots, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Marc A. Mallon, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20A0176

    State's Delay in Filing a Complete Transcript of Trial Proceedings Did Not Violate Malice Murder Defendant's Right to a Timely Appeal

  • 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
    Industry:
    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
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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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
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    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
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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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.