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  • Hasan Al-Bari et al. v. Craig Pigg et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Bryan Francis Jacoutot, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Charlene Swartz McGowan, Bryan Keith Webb, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Manoj Sam Varghese, Kayla Polonsky, Jane D. Vincent, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S25A0177

    Court affirms disqualification of electors for independent presidential candidates for failure to file petitions in their own names as required by OCGA § 21-2-132

  • 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

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Christina Peterson.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-31
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Courtney Mays Veal, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Marietta, Anna Green Cross, (Cross Kincaid LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Law Office of Elizabeth White), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court of Fulton County), Atlanta, Richard L. Hyde, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S22Z0180

    Court affirms findings of Judicial Qualification Commission and orders removal of a probate judge due to her violations of the Code of Judicial Conduct

  • Vidal v. Elster

    Publication Date: 2024-06-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Trademarks
    Industry: Consumer Products | Federal Government
    Court: U.S. Supreme Court
    Judge: Judge Thomas
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-704

    Lanham Act's names clause does not violate First Amendment

  • Morath v. Lampasas Indep. Sch. Dist.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-04
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Education Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Devine
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-0169

    In a dispute involving the detachment of real property from one school district and its annexation to another under the Texas Education Code, the procedural journey began with one school board swiftly approving the petition while the other engaged in over seven years of inaction, refusing to fulfill its statutory duty to make a decision.

  • McGuiness v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Delaware Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LeGrow
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven P. Wood, Chelsea A. Botsch, McCarter & English, LLP, Wilmington, DE, Dean A. Elwell, McCarter & English, LLP, Boston, MA for plaintiff.
    for defendant: David C. McBride, M. Paige Valeski, Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, Wilmington, DE for defendant.
    Case Number: 438, 2022

    Official misconduct conviction reversed where trial court delayed in recognizing legal insufficiency of procurement law violation charge, thereby allowing jury to hear evidence on the procurement charge that could have spilled over into the jury's consideration of the official misconduct charge.

  • The State v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Reuven Melnick, (Jonathan R. Melnick PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0842

    Court reverses trial court's suppression of statement taken while defendant was hospitalized and medicated, affirming the need for coercive police conduct for involuntariness

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0166

    No Brady Violation From Delayed Disclosure of Crime Scene Technician's Failure to Find Fingerprints on Shell Casing

  • The State v. Britton

    Publication Date: 2023-06-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Michael Scott Carlson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Virginia Lee Davis, Kelcee Nikki Jones-Connor, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jessica M. Sully, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, Lauren Beth Shubow, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0102

    Affidavit Statement in Support of Search Warrant Did Not Contain Material Misrepresentation or Falsehood

  • Tyler v. Hennepin County

    Publication Date: 2023-05-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: U.S. Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Roberts
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-166

    County's retention of excess value of home above owner's tax debt plausibly alleged to violate Takings Clause