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  • Red Zone v. Cadwalader

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Law Firms - Large | Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Supreme Court, Part 49
    Judge: Justice O. Peter Sherwood
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 650318/2011

    Ruling Sets Stage for $21 Million Cadwalader Malpractice Trial

  • Prothro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle, Sr., Dane M. Garland (Swindle Law Group, PC.), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anne Cobb Allen (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton; Peter J. Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1399

    Defendant failed to prove that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in his trial on charges of malice murder and other crimes after he killed his grandfather and set his house on fire.

  • Reilly v. Patchogue Properties

    Publication Date: 2018-02-13
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk
    Judge: Justice Peter Mayer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff Reilly: Alonso Krangle, LLP, Melville, New York.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendant/Third-Party Plaintiff Patchogue Properties, Inc.: Miranda Sambursky, Slone, Sklarin Verveniotis, LLP, Mineola, New York.; Attorney for Third-Party Defendants: Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn, New York, New York.
    Case Number: 12-34556

    Owner Absolved of Liability as Guest Sole Proximate Cause of Own Injuries

  • City Of Richardson v. Oncor Electric

    Publication Date: 2018-02-12
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Green
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 15-1008

    Oncor provided electrical service to Richardson pursuant to a franchise ordinance.

  • McFadin v. Broadway

    Publication Date: 2018-02-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-0560

    Earlier in the case, the trial court ruled against McFadin in a dispute over property ownership interests.

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Jason Matthew Rea, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Jeffery Wayne Hunt, Peter J. Skandalakis, Christopher R. Keegan (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1757

    The trial court did not err in refusing to grant defendant's motions for mistrial during jury deliberations on the ground that notes from the jury showed that it was hopelessly deadlocked because the jury's statements did not indicate that it was deadlocked; considering the totality of the circumstances, the trial courts actions did not coerce the jurys verdicts.

  • Donaldson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darrell Brinnett Reynolds, Sr. (Darrell B. Reynolds, P.C.), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Elizabeth A. Baker, Tracy Graham Lawson, Elizabeth Rosenwasser Rosenwasser (Clayton County District Attorney's Office), Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1350

    Although the evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder and one count of firearm possession, the Supreme Court of Georgia vacated his convictions for aggravated assault and a second firearm possession count because the trial court should have merged those convictions into other counts.

  • Allen-Pieroni v. Pieroni

    Publication Date: 2017-12-25
    Practice Area: Family Law | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 16-0900

    "Slander of title" consists of a "false and malicious statement made in disparagement of a person's title to property which causes special damages."

  • Anderson v. Commack Fire Dist.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-14
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk
    Judge: Justice Daniel Martin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Law Office of Daniel P. Buttafuocco, Woodbury, New York.
    for defendant: Attorney for Defendants: Siler & Ingber, LLP, Mineola, New York.
    Case Number: 12-36752

    Dismissal of Personal Injury Suit Granted Against Firefighter Personally Not Fire District

  • Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Parks Benson (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Thomas Monroe Mitchell (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1140

    The trial court properly affirmed a local zoning boards denial of landowner's application to rezone certain property, finding that the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the propertys current zoning was substantially related to the publics health, safety, morality and welfare.