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  • 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

  • West v. Quintanilla

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-0454

    The parties, former business partners, entered into three agreements: a trading agreement, a purchase agreement, and an oral agreement.

  • Agar Corporation v. Electro Circuits

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Devine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-0630

    Petitioner designed, manufactured and sold measuring devices for use in the oil and gas industry and brought suit against respondent and others for allegedly selling knock-off products.

  • Price v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Alston Pearlman, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Sassano, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stephen Andrew Bradley, Jeff Preston Burks, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1491

    Interrogator's Statements to Defendant Did Not Relate to Charges or Sentences And Therefore Did Not Render Statements Involuntary

  • Park v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Citronberg, Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Tina Michelle Piper, Paula Khristian Smith, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Vincent James Faucette, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1211

    Statute that required persons designated as sexually dangerous predators to wear GPS devices for life is declared unconstitutional

  • Favors v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-03-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of The Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1394

    Photo of Gunshot Victim Was Relevant to Show Nature and Bodily Location of Victim's Injuries