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  • Wallace v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann Faith Blend (Maryann F. Blend, Esq., PC.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Daniel J. Porter, Lee Franklin Tittsworth (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1900

    Trial Court Did Not Err in Refusing to Reinstate Dismissed Juror

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Richard Parker (Georgia Public Defender Standards Council), Bainbridge; Katherine Lynn Dodd (Southwest Georgia Conflict Division-GPDC), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien (Department of Law), Atlanta; Gregory W. Edwards, Kathryn O. Fallin (Dougherty County District Attorney's Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1526

    Even assuming that defense counsel was deficient in opening the door for the prosecution to elicit otherwise inadmissible evidence of defendant's bad character, defendant could not show that the allegedly deficient performance prejudiced him, in light of the strong evidence of his guilt, and thus could not prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claim in connection with his convictions for felony murder and armed robbery.

  • Altesse Healthcare Solutions, Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-0922

    The defendants (Allen and Becky Wilson) owned a healthcare company. In June 2014, they sold their business to Altesse for $800,000, to be paid in installments.

  • Lee v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2018-03-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Fernandez-Vina
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Orlofsky (Blank Rome and Archer & Greiner, attorneys; Stephen M. Orlofsky, Adrienne C. Rogove, Frank D. Allen, and William J. O'Kane, Jr., on the briefs); Denis F. Driscoll (Inglesino Webster Wyciskala & Taylor, attorney; Denis F. Driscoll, Nicholas A. Grieco, Alyssa E. Spector, and Owen T. Weaver, of counsel and on the briefs)
    for defendant: Steward M. Leviss (Berkowitz, Lichtstein, Kuritskym, Giasullo & Gross, attorneys; Stewart M. Leviss, on the briefs); S. Robert Princiotto (Marcus & Levy, attorneys; S. Robert Princiotto, on the briefs); Richard J. Abrahamsen (Abrahamsen Law Firm, attorneys; Richard J. Abrahamsen, on the briefs); Dennis J. Cummins, Jr. (Dennis J. Cummins, on the letter-brief)
    Case Number: A-7/8-16 (078043)

    Defendants Entitled to Absolute Immunity Where Alleged Causative Conduct Was Failure to Enforce Buillding Codes

  • Barnett et al. v. Caldwell

    Publication Date: 2018-02-27
    Practice Area: Government | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Leighton Moore, III (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta; Shean DeCarlos Williams (The Cochran Firm Atlanta), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cheryl Lynn Haas, Halima Horton, Kurt Eric Lentz, (McGuire Woods LLP), Atlanta; Matthew Allen Fitzgerald (McGuire Woods LLP), Richmond; Phillip L. Hartley (Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0641

    A teacher was entitled to official immunity in a wrongful death suit brought by parents of a child who died in the teacher's classroom while the teacher was out of the room, because the complained-of actions were discretionary and plaintiffs did not present evidence of actual malice or intent to injure.

  • City Trading Fund v. Nye

    Publication Date: 2018-02-27
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Corporate Governance | Mergers and Acquisitions
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Supreme Court, New York County
    Judge: Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 651668/2014

    Disclosure-Only Settlement Denied; New Disclosures Were Immaterial to Shareholders

  • The Mayor and Aldermen of Garden City v. Harris et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-02-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick T. O'Connor, David William Bobo Mullens, III, James Philip Gerard (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Dorian Britt (Karsman, McKenzie & Hart), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0692

    City was entitled to summary judgment in plaintiffs' suit to recover for injuries their daughter suffered at a City-owned and maintained football stadium because the Recreational Property Act provided immunity to City since the injured party was allowed to use City's property for recreational purposes free of charge.

  • Blackwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Wilson Jones, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Michael Scott Carlson, John Richard Edwards, D. Victor Reynolds, Theresa Marie Schiefer (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1928

    Defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims following his murder conviction.

  • Green v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew David O'Brien (Department of Law), Atlanta; Clifford Paul Bowden (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1872

    Defendant failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims following his conviction as a party to the crime of malice murder.

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Ervin Chisholm (Office of the Public Defender), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Craig Edward Miller, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Moruf O. Oseni (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1479

    The evidence was sufficient to support defendants' convictions arising from the shooting death of one of the defendant's wife's romantic partner and the trial courts finding that the prosecutors peremptory jury strikes were not racially motivated was not clearly erroneous.