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  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Allen Hunt, (Law Office of R. Allen Hunt), Atlanta, John Walter Kraus, (Office of the Public Defender), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Jeffrey Matthew Gore, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, Tracy Graham Lawson, Elizabeth A. Baker, (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0343

    Trial Court's Admission of Prior Shooting Incident Involving Defendant Was Harmless Error

  • People v. Sargeant

    Publication Date: 2019-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Queens
    Judge: Justice Gene Lopez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: The People by: ADA Matthew Luongo, Kew Gardens, New York
    for defendant: The Defendant by: Jorge Santos, Esq., Forest Hills, New York.
    Case Number: 01354-2017

    Trial Permitted to Continue With 11 Jurors Due to Defendant's Juror Tampering, Misconduct

  • Collett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Scott L. Ballard, Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Fayetteville, Thomaston, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0324

    Court Affirms Conviction for Murder Based on Circumstantial Evidence That Murder Had Deliberately Killed Victim and Lied About Accidently Killing the Victim

  • Georgia Dept. of Labor v. Mcconnell et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen M. Pacious, Loretta L. Pinkston-Pope, Angela Ellen Cusimano, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott A. Schweber, (Schweber Green Law Group), Atlanta, Jefferson Madden Allen, (Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Roy E. Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Kenneth S. Canfield, (Doffermyre Shields Canfield Knowles), Atlanta, David J. Worley, (Evangelista Worley, LLC), Atlanta, Amy E. Keller, (Dicello Levitt Gutzler LLC), Chicago, Norman E. Siegel, Barrett J. Vahle, (Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP), Kansas City, Andrew N. Friedman, (Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC), Washington,, James Pizzirusso, (Hausfeld LLP), Washington, John A. Yanchunis, (Morgan & Morgan Complex Litigation Group), Tampa, Jason Ryan Doss, (The Doss Firm, LLC), Marietta, Eric H. Gibbs, (Girard Gibbs LLP), Oakland, Ariana J. Tadler, (Milberg Tadler Phillips Grossman LLP), New York, William H. Murphy, III, (Murphy Falcon & Murphy), Baltimore, Rodney Keith Strong, (Griffin & Strong, PC), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S18G1316

    Department of Labor has no sovereign immunity for plaintiff's tort claims, but the plaintiff's complaint failed to state a valid claim.

  • DiNunzio v. Berezin

    Publication Date: 2019-06-13
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk
    Judge: Justice William Ford
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Plaintiff's Counsel: Scott Lockwood, Esq., Deer Park, New York.
    for defendant: Defendant's Counsel: Hirschel Law Firm, PC, Valley Stream, New York.
    Case Number: 11882/2015

    Motion to Quash Subpoena Denied, Yet Contempt for Noncompliance Also Denied

  • Johnston v. Hillis

    Publication Date: 2019-06-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, St. Lawrence
    Judge: Justice Mary Farley
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Michael A. Bottar, Esq., of counsel, Appearances: Bottar Law, PLLC.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendants: Charles E. Patton, Esq., of counsel, Martin, Ganotis, Brown, Mould & Currie, P.C.
    Case Number: 150897

    Additional Deposition of Nurse on What Doctor Stated at Quality Assurance Meeting Granted

  • Outler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council, Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Samuel H. Altman, Kelly Anne Jenkins, Tony Allen May, (Middle Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0158

    Court dismisses murder defendant's appeal but vacates other convictions due to merger and other errors.

  • Koonce v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah,, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Matthew Breedon, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office Of The District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0012

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's multiple claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Thomas v. O'Neill

    Publication Date: 2019-05-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Melissa Crane
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 151785/2018

    Respondents' Decision Revoking Handgun Licenses Sustained, Article 78 Challenge Dismissed

  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-03
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Damages
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joyce Gist Lewis, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Curtis J. Martin, II, (Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, Michael P. Kohler, Charles B. Lee, Laura Elisabeth Ashby, (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta, George P. Shingler, (The Shingler Law Firm LLC), Decatur, Ashley Elizabeth Wilson Clark, (Buckley Beal, LLP), Atlanta, Kathryn R. Norcross, James S. Watson, Colleen J. Boles, John Stuart Tonkinson, (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), Arlington, Ellis A. Sharp, (Stokes, Williams, Sharp & Davies), Knoxville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Richard Long, IV, Brian David Boone, Theodore J. Sawicki, Elizabeth Gingold Clark, Lauren Tapson Macon, (Alston & Bird, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Q1233

    Georgia's Apportionment Statute Was Applicable to Tort Claims Against Bank Directors and Officers For Purely Pecuniary Losses