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  • Stribling v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-09-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlantic Beach, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Andrew J. Ekonomou, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, Jacquelyn Lee Johnson, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, Richard A. Malone, (Office of The District Attorney), Jesup, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0595

    Defendant's actions were the proximate cause of a victim's death, where victim died after removal of life support

  • AH Investimentos Corp. v. King Equity Partners LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-08-30
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Real Estate
    Court: Supreme Court, Kings County
    Judge: Justice Francois Rivera
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 524426/2017

    Defendant Seller Failed to Establish Buyer Was Not Ready, Willing and Able to Close

  • Glassman v. Weinberg

    Publication Date: 2018-08-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Tanya Kennedy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 650838/2016

    Subpoena Overly Broad, Attempt to Conduct Fishing Expedition; Motion to Quash Granted

  • RSI Bank v. The Providence Mut. Fire Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2018-08-20
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Insurance
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Patterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen N. Papp (Adams, Cassese & Papp, attorneys; Allen N. Papp, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Marc L. Dembling (Methfessel & Werbel, attorneys; Marc L. Dembling, of counsel and on the brief, and Danielle N. Singer, on the brief)
    Case Number: A-68-16 (079116)

    Trial Court Erred in Granting Indemnification Judgment Based on Defendant's PTI Program Condition

  • Tenet Healthsystem GB, Inc. v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2018-08-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Automotive | Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth Jr. (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta; Brian K. Mathis (Huff Powell & Bailey LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robin N. Loeb, Anne H. Coolidge-Kaplan (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, PC.), Atlanta, for appellee. Layne Zhou, Hunter S. Allen Jr. (Allen & McCain PC), Atlanta, for amicus appellant. Charles Madden Cork III, Decatur, for amicus appellee. Eric Jeffrey Frisch, Claire A. Sumner (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta; Michael Scott Bailey, David Donald Mackenzie (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17G1021

    Claim In Second Amended Complaint Imputing Simple Negligence Against Hospital Related Back to Original Malpractice Complaint

  • McGouirk v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Rust Knox (Towaliga Judicial Circuit Public Defenders Office), Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Lang Adams, Anita Reynolds Howard, Richard G. Milam, Cynthia Trimboli Adams (Towaliga Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Barnesville; Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0130

    The trial court erred in automatically detaining defendant pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 17-7-130 (c) solely based on the fact that he was a mentally incompetent individual who had been accused of committing violent crimes without exercising its discretion to make "an individualized determination of whether his confinement reasonably advanced the government's purpose.

  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Bibbs et al. v. Toyota Motor Corporation et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Damages | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, John Raymond Bevis, John Ross Bartholomew IV (The Barnes Law Group LLC), Marietta; Robert David Cheeley (Sherry Schons - Cheeley Law Group), Norcross; Keith E. Fryer (Fryer Shuster & Lester P.C.), Atlanta; Keith Allen Pittman (Cheeley Law Group LLC), Alphatetta; Thomas A. Eaton (University of Georgia School of Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carrie Lynn Christie, Robert Harris Burke (Rutherford & Christie LLP), Atlanta; Frank Mitchell Lowrey IV, Amanda Kay Seals Bersinger (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta; Joel H. Smith, Richard Hood Willis, Ashleigh R. Wilson (Bowman and Brooke LLP-SC), Columbia, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Q0075

    Damages in a wrongful death action are limited by the decedent's full settlement of her earlier personal injury action.

  • Deroeck v. DHM Ventures

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-0033

    Plaintiffs sued DHM Ventures, alleging it stopped making payments on a promissory note, leaving $7 million in principal and more than $58,000 in interest outstanding.

  • Michael O. Mondy et al. v. Magnolia Advanced Materials, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Oliver Mondy (Michael O. Mondy PC.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Erika Clarke Birg, Peter L. Munk (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G1478

    When a motion to recuse the trial judge is filed after the judge has orally held a party's attorney in contempt, the recusal motion must be decided before the judge may properly proceed to enter a written contempt order.