Filter This View

  • Allen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A0171

    In a sharply divided opinion, court reverses malice murder conviction due to failure to instruct jury on voluntary manslaughter

  • Howard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, John Allen Regan, (Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1037

    Court rules that adjudication of guilt upon revocation of first-offender status is directly appealable, and reverses appellate court judgment that dismissed appeal for lack of jurisdiction

  • Smith et al. v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Scott Anulewicz, Wayne R. Beckermann, (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP), Atlanta, Douglas Ray McMillan, (Shingler & McMillan LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Christopher Michael Quinn, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee; Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Daniel L. Alban, Anna J. Goodman, (Institute For Justice), Arlington, Paul Oliver, Les A. Schneider, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Thomas Leland Walker, (Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G0701

    Court reverses and remands civil asset forfeiture case, finding that the State's complaint failed to adequately allege essential elements of theft by taking.

  • Huynh v. Blanchard

    Publication Date: 2024-06-24
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 21-0676

    Petitioners are a poultry producer and local farmers and growers.

  • Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine

    Publication Date: 2024-06-13
    Practice Area: Food and Drug Act
    Industry: Federal Government | Health Care | Non-Profit | Pharmaceuticals
    Court: U.S. Supreme Court
    Judge: Judge Kavanaugh
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 23-235

    Pro-life medical associations and physicians lack Article III standing to challenge FDA actions regarding regulation of mifepristone

  • Policastri v. Sunco Capital Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-11
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Richmond
    Judge: Justice Ronald Castorina Jr.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 150011/2024

    Arbitration Clause Enforced Against Homeowner Husband, But Not Homeowner Wife

  • Goldstein v. Sabatino

    Publication Date: 2024-06-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Lehrmann
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0678

    Petitioner sought a protective order against respondent under Chapter 7B of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

  • Texas Dep't of Transp. v. Self

    Publication Date: 2024-06-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government | Land Use and Planning
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0585

    Respondents sued petitioner, the Texas Department of Transportation, and others for negligence and inverse condemnation after a TxDOT subcontractor's employees cut down trees on respondents' property outside the boundaries of the State's right of way easement.

  • Cobb County v. Floam et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Lauren Smith Bruce, Elizabeth Ahern Monyak, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ray Stallings Smith, III, (Smith & Liss, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Logan B. Winkles, Jonathan David Loegel, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Justin Thomas Golart, Zachary Mullinax, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Walter White, (Haynie, Litchfield,Crane & White, P.C.), Marietta, William A. Pinto, Jr., (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S24A0599

    Court reverses order granting declaratory relief to residents who challenged a county boundary redistricting, finding that they could not show a need for guidance for future conduct

  • Stein v. The Rockefeller Univ. Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Dakota D. Ramseur
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 159929/2023

    GMVL Cannot Be Applied Retroactively to Revive Previously Time-Barred Actions