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  • Appellate Division, Second Department: December 6, 2024

    Publication Date: 2024-12-06
    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:December 4, 2024

  • 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

  • City of Milton v. Chang et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, (J. Scott Key, LLC), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Simon, Tyler Bridgers, (The Simon Law Frim PC), Atlanta, Jed Manton, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Atlanta, Madeline McNeeley, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Brookhaven, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0802

    Court affirms $30 million verdict against the City of Milton in fatal accident case, rejecting City's claims of sovereign immunity, and orders pre-judgment interest and nunc pro tunc judgment

  • Integrate NYC Inc. v. State of New York

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Civil Rights | Constitutional Law | Education Law
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Appellate Division, First Department
    Judge: Justice Peter H. Moulton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Appellants: Melissa ColÓn-Bosolet, Eamon P. Joyce, Zachary J. Strongin, Karma O. Farra, Alyssa M. Hasbrouck, Ernesto R. Claeyssen of counsel), Sidley Austin LLP, District of Columbia (Carter G. Phillips of the bar of the district of Columbia, of counsel), Sidley Austin LLP, London, UK (Tanisha Singh of counsel), Peer Defense Project, New York (Sarah Medina Camiscoli of counsel), and Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA (Mark D. Rosenbaum, Amanda Mangaser Savage, Kathryn Eidmann and Sarah Camiscoli of the bar of the State of the State of LA, California, of counsel, Sidley Austin LLP, New York. For State of New York, Governor of the State of New York, New York State Board of Regents, New York State Education Department and New York State Commissioner of Education, Respondents: Mark S. Grube and Ester Murdukhayeva of counsel, Letitia James, Attorney General, New York.
    for defendant: For Bill DeBlasio, Mayor of New York City, New York City Department of Education and Meisha Porter, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, Respondents: Philip Young, Richard Dearing and Devin Slack of counsel, Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, Corporation Counsel, New York. For Parents Defending Education, Respondent: James F. Hasson, Taylor A.R. Meehan of the bar of the District of Columbia, admitted pro hac vice and Thomas S. Vaseliou of the bar of the State of Texas, admitted pro hac vice of counsel, Dennis J. Saffran, Douglaston, NY, and Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Arlington, VA.
    Case Number: 152743/21

    Court Erred in Dismissing Suit Over Denial of Basic Education for Lack of Controversy

  • 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.

  • January 9, 2024 | Daily Report Online

    Coffee County Election Software Breach Takes Center Stage in Ga. Voting Rights Case

    The plaintiffs contend that the same incident central criminal election-meddling case against former president Donald Trump in the Superior Court of Fulton County proves their argument that Georgia's voting software system is not secure.

    6 minute read

  • November 15, 2023 | Delaware Law Weekly

    'A Dagger at the Heart'?: Lawyer Says Ex-Delaware Auditor Needs New Trial Because of Judge's Remark

    The charges brought against McGuiness centered on her hiring her daughter and structuring payments to a contractor in a way that avoided financial oversight.

    4 minute read

  • 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

  • The State et al. v. SASS Group, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Tina Michelle Piper, Cristina Maria Correia, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Daniel Church, (The Church Law Firm, LLC), Roswell, Page Anthony Pate, (Pate, Johnson & Church, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Andrew (Andy) J. Welch, III, Warren Michael Tillery, Brandon Filson Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Smith, , Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Winder, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22A1243

    Suit For Declaratory Relief Naming Both State and County District Attorney as Defendants Was Barred by Sovereign Immunity