• Clarke v. Town of Newburgh

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department
    Judge: Justice Cheryl E. Chambers
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiffs-Appellants: Robert A. Spolzino, Jeffrey A. Cohen, David Imamura, Steven Still, and Election Law Clinic at Harvard Law School [Ruth Greenwood, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, Daniel Hessel, and Samuel Jacob Davis, pro hac vice], of counsel, Abrams Fensterman, LLP, White Plains, NY.
    for defendant: For Respondents: Misha Tseytlin and Bennet J. Moskowitz of counsel, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP, New York, NY. Intervenor-Appellant Pro Se: Barbara D. Underwood, Judith Vale, Andrea Trento, Beezly J. Kiernan, Sandra Park, Lindsay McKenzie, and Derek Borchardt of counsel, Letitia James, Attorney General, New York, NY. Amicus Curiae Pro Se and for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California: Robert Brent Ferguson of counsel, Campaign Legal Center, Washington, DC. Amicus Curiae Pro Se: Adam Lioz, Samuel Spital, Stuart Naifeh, Michael Pernick, and Maia Cole of counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY. For Amici Curiae Town of Mount Pleasant and Town Board of the Town of Mount Pleasant: Ariana Dindiyal, Robert J. Tucker, Erika D. Prouty, Rebecca Schrote, and E. Mark Braden of counsel, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, New York, NY. For Amicus Curiae Town of Cheektowaga: Joseph Burns of counsel, Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak, PLLC, Buffalo, NY.

    Case Number: 2024-04376

    90-Day Safe Harbor Not Triggered by Resolution to Remedy Voting Rights Violation

  • Appellate Division, First Department: February 10, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-10
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Appeals & Motions
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appeals & Motions List released on:February 6, 2025

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: February 7, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-07
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:February 5, 2025

  • February 5, 2025 | Daily Report Online

    Transgender Care Fight Targets More Adults as Georgia, Other States Weigh Laws

    With 2025 state legislative sessions still young, bills have been introduced to cut off public funding for gender affirming care for adults in at least 10 states. Georgia became the first state to move forward this year, with a panel voting 6-3 Tuesday to advance a bill to the full Senate despite pleas from public employees who would lose insurance benefits.

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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: February 3, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-02-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:January 30, 2025

  • Wright v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Zachary Smith, Alexandra Hofstetter, (Burns Smith Law, P.C.), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A25A0076

    Court Reverses Exclusion of Expert Testimony in a DUI Vehicular Homicide Case and Remands for Further Proceedings

  • ConocoPhillips v. Hahn

    Publication Date: 2025-01-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 23-0024

    Respondent and his siblings owned various interests in a 74.15 acre tract of land. Respondent and his brother George owned the tract's surface estate while each of the four siblings owned a undivided share of the tract's severed mineral estate.

  • Appellate Division, Second Department: January 24, 2025

    Publication Date: 2025-01-24
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, Second Department, Hand Down List
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: DOCKET

    Handdown List released on:January 22, 2025

  • Bennett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    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

  • Parker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Nation, (Nation, Moore & Associates, LLC), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Nicholas Donald Nunn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alisha Adams Johnson, Alicia C Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney’s Office), Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: S24A1327

    Court Affirms Murder Conviction Evidence was Sufficient for Jury to Find Defendant Guilty, Trial Court Did Not Err in Denying Counsel's Withdrawal, and Counsel Was Not Ineffective