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  • Pyne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kalki Yalamanchili, (Y’Chili Law LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0670

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes, and rejects claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and improper closing argument by prosecutor

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases

  • Markowitz v. 420 Kent Ave. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Peter P. Sweeney
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 527648/2021

    Court Rules That LLC Must Indemnify Defendant, Summary Judgment Granted

  • Pefanis v. A.O. Smith Water Prods. Co

    Publication Date: 2024-10-15
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Adam Silvera
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    Case Number: 190302/2020

    Dismissal Denied, Issues of Fact as to Whether Defendant's Products Caused Asbestos

  • Mule v. The New York State Department of Health

    Publication Date: 2024-10-09
    Practice Area: Civil Rights
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    Court: Supreme Court, Nassau
    Judge: Justice Christopher T. McGrath
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    Case Number: 616552/2024

    Department of Health's Determination of Students' Vaccination Records Deemed Valid

  • Thomas v. Highland Care Center

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
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    Court: Supreme Court, Queens
    Judge: Justice Marguerite A. Grays
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    Case Number: 723244/2022

    Dismissal Granted and Dismissed in Part in Wrongful Death Action

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Ravindran v. GLAS Trust Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Education | Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Valihura
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph B. Cicero, Ryan M. Lindsay, Chipman Brown Cicero & Cole, LLP, Wilmington, DE; Sheron Korpus, David M. Max, Sondra D. Grigsby, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, New York, NY for appellants.
    for defendant: Brock E. Czeschin, Susan Hannigan Cohen, Nicole M. Henry, Richards, Layton & Finger, P.A., Wilmington, DE; Lauren K. Neal, Elizabeth A. Mullin Stoffer, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP, Wilmington, DE for appellees.
    Case Number: 463, 2023

    Although appellants raised the parties' contract's forum selection clause, they failed to explicitly argue that a non-signatory litigant was bound to the clause and thus waived the issue on appeal.

  • In re Dallas HERO

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Election and Political Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
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    Case Number: 24-0678

    Relators filed a mandamus petition raising four challenges to council-initiated propositions regarding whether the ballot language the city council selected to describe various propositions satisfied the standard of clarity and definiteness.

  • Wade v. Valdetaro

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-0443

    A former president of a company, who lost at trial and had a $21.6 million judgment rendered against him, successfully proved on appeal that he was entitled to a new trial.