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  • ConocoPhillips v. Hahn

    Publication Date: 2025-01-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
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    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.

  • Braig v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Westchester
    Judge: Justice William J. Giacomo
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    Case Number: 64427/2022

    Common Law Indemnification Dismissed, Contribution Claim Survives

  • Tavarez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0532

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims that his trial was compromised because he was shackled

  • Mason v. New York University

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Labor Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Paul A. Goetz
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    Case Number: 156229/2018

    Labor Law § 741 Claim Upheld, Issues as to Whether NYU Retaliated Against Plaintiff

  • Samson Exploration, LLC v. Bordages

    Publication Date: 2024-07-01
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Damages | Energy and Natural Resources
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hecht
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    Case Number: 22-0215

    Petitioner Sampson Exploration LLC held oil and gas leases on properties of three different families, the Klorers, the Hooks and the Bordages, that sued petitioner for unpaid royalties owed.

  • In Re Rogers

    Publication Date: 2024-06-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Election and Political Law | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: 23-0595

    Emergency services districts are political subdivisions that provide emergency services to residents within the district's boundaries and are overseen by a board of commissioners. An emergency services district can impose a sales and use tax to raise revenue and, once established, an election is required to change or abolish the tax.

  • In re Richardson Motorsports, Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Discovery | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Busby
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    Case Number: 22-1167

    Relator Richardson Motorsports was sued by minor E.B., the real party in interest, for damages for her alleged mental anguish after she witnessed her eight-year-old brother's death in an ATV accident when the ATV's steering mechanism allegedly failed. Relator sold the ATV to E.B.'s father in 2013.

  • Pittman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David D. Marshall, (Law Office of David D. Marshall), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0013

    Court affirms murder and arson convictions over defendant's multiple procedural challenges regarding evidence, alleged impartiality of District Attorney, and denial of a mistrial

  • Victory Media Group, LLC v. Georgia Department of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2024-05-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: Advertising
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Adam Webb, (Webb, Klase & Lemond, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Logan B. Winkles, Amy Lynne Patterson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Denise E. Weiner, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall, Booth, Smith P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24C0144

    Court denies petition for certiorari where applicant had challenged the constitutionality of Georgia's Advertising Control Act, citing lack of direct harm

  • Stroud v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Ali Pauline Ritch, (Toombs Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0069

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to the sufficiency of evidence amid conflicting witness testimonies, and to denial of a directed verdict motion