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  • April 30, 2019 | National Law Journal

    Paul Weiss Expands New SCOTUS Practice as More Follow Shanmugam From Williams & Connolly

    The firm can finally claim to be among "the best in the business" for appellate advocacy, said chairman Brad Karp.

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  • Cicel (Beijing) Science & Tech. Ltd. v. Misonix Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-30
    Practice Area: Law Firm Client Relationships
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    Judge: Magistrate Judge Steven Locke
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-CV-1642

    Firm Materials and Communications Stemming from Internal Investigation Are Protected

  • The State v. Spratlin

    Publication Date: 2019-04-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo, (Dekalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of The Public Defender), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1158

    Court reverses new trial order that had been entered in favor of murder defendant

  • Licata v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Woodrow Scott Smith, (W. Scott Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Matthew K. Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Aubrey Finch, Adam Eugene Keller, (Forsyth County Solicitor General's Office), Cumming, for appellee. Jimmonique R. S. Rodgersm Brandon A. Bullard, James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Lawrenceville, Andrew Santos Fleischman, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, for Amicus Appellant. Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Paula Khristian Smith, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Tina Michelle Piper, David Scott McLaughlin, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., Gilbert Alexander Crosby, (Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia), Morrow, George Herbert Hartwig, III, (Houston County District Attorney's Office), Perry, Lee Darragh, (Northeastern Circuit District Attorney's Office), Gainesville, Matthew Carl Krull, (Douglas County Solicitor General's Office), Douglasville, Samuel Richard d'Entremont, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0563

    Court Rejects Challenge to Admissibility of Roadside Sobriety Test Results Upon Concluding That Suspect Was Not in Custody but Reaffirms Commitment to Rule Against Presenting Refusal to Submit to a Breath Test and Orders Suppression of Refusal Evidence

  • Hill v. Burnett

    Publication Date: 2019-04-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Ney, (William Brent Ney, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shanti Nagrani, (Attorney At Law), Alpharetta, Amy Waggoner, (Waggoner Hastings, LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee. Michael D. Thornton, Lakeisha L. Thornton, Stockbridge, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A18A1655

    Court agrees that former same-sex partner's claims for parental rights and visitation were justiciable and reverses attorney fee award against her

  • In Re Nelke

    Publication Date: 2019-04-15
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Schenck
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 05-19-00050-CV

    Mother, father, and older child lived with paternal grandmother for about a year.

  • Appellate Term, Second Department: April 8, 2019

    Publication Date: 2019-04-11
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Term, Second Department, Second, Eleventh and Thirteenth JudicIal Districts & Ninth and Tenth JudicIal DisTRICTS
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Term, Second Department: April 8, 2019

  • April 9, 2019 | National Law Journal

    DC Circuit Denies Gibson Dunn's $818K Fee Request After SCOTUS Victory

    Gibson Dunn sought fees for thousands of hours of work in the case "Lucia v. SEC," where the justices invalidated the appointment process for the agency's administrative law judges.

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  • Appellate Division, First Department:April 4, 2019

    Publication Date: 2019-04-08
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department, Cases Decided
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: DOCKET

    Appellate Division, First Department:April 4, 2019

  • Conley v. Pate

    Publication Date: 2019-04-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Melvin King, Jr., (King Law Group), Dublin, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, (Department Of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ecleynne Mercy, (Mercy Law P.C.), Atlanta, Timothy Orman McCalep, (The Law Office of Timothy McCalep PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1121

    Court reverses habeus petition on 20-year sentence for statutory rape