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  • Brundage v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-02-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dillon McConnell, (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Mary Catherine Norman, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1369

    Court Reverses Felony Murder Conviction Due to Prosecutor's Misstatement of Self-Defense Law and Failure of Defendant's Trial Counsel to Object to Misstatement

  • Burke v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-02-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Timothy Douds, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), 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, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, Jeff Preston Burks, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Madison for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1318

    Court Affirms Murder Conviction, Rejecting Defendant's Confrontation Clause and Ineffective Counsel Claims

  • White et al. v. City of Mableton

    Publication Date: 2025-02-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Inman Pointer Lightcap, (Mayer and Harper, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, Michael Gregory Foo, (Troutman Pepper Locke LLP), Atlanta, LaGrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1273

    Court Affirms the State's Incorporation of the City of Mableton Incorporation, Rejecting a Citizens' Constitutional Challenge to the House Bill (HB 839) that Incorporated the City

  • Brown v. Saczawa

    Publication Date: 2025-02-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, Kings
    Judge: Justice Aaron D. Maslow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs: Friedman Sanchez, LLP, Brooklyn.
    for defendant: For Defendant Robert J. Saczawa: Martin, Smith, Murray & Yong, Hauppauge.
    Case Number: 507585/2021

    Defendants' Doctors Found Limitations in Plaintiffs' Range of Motion, Motion Denied

  • In the Matter of Tien Ran Buddha Church

    Publication Date: 2025-02-20
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Supreme Court, Queens
    Judge: Justice Cheree A. Buggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2805/2017

    Deed Not Voided as Movant Failed to Establish It was Fraudulent

  • Mejia v. Japan Society, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2025-02-07
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, Bronx
    Judge: Justice Fidel E. Gomez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 28455/17E

    Additur Granted for Plaintiff in Personal Injury Action

  • Allen v. Actors Equity Holding Corp.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Mary V. Rosado
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 157450/2016

    Summary Judgment Denied in Personal Injury Action

  • Bennett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicole E. Baker, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Acworth, Ralph James Villani, (Office of the Appellate Defender), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Julia Kalleen Greene, Lee Darragh, (Hall County District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, Anna Victoria Fowler, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1374

    Court Affirms Convictions in Attempted Robbery and Fatal Shooting of Elderly Victim, Rejecting Defendant's Challenges to Evidence and Jury Instructions

  • Walker v. Baptist St. Anthony's Hosp.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 23-0010

    Petitioners sued respondents Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital and Dr. Rhodesia Castillo for medical negligence after petitioner Kristen Walker gave birth to Henry and Henry suffered permanent neurologic injury after he became asphyxiated during labor and suffered a large subacute infarction involving the majority of his left cerebral hemisphere and other small infarctions in his right cerebral hemisphere.

  • Edwards-Tuggle v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Ann Brandenburg, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1083

    Court Affirms Conviction in Family Shooting Case, Rejecting Defendant's Contentions of Improper Jury Instructions, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, and Cumulative Error