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  • Robinson v. Ardoin

    Publication Date: 2023-11-20
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Judge: Circuit Judge Southwick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 22-30333-CV0

    Plaintiffs' challenge to the 2022 Louisiana congressional redistricting map was preliminarily enjoined by the district court for the 2022 elections, but the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the injunction pending its resolution of an Alabama redistricting plan.

  • The State v. Andre Plaines

    Publication Date: 2018-04-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Margaret Heap (District Attorney), Savannah; Kristjan Whiteway (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial District), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amy Ihrig (Public Defenders Office EJC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1433

    The trial court abused its discretion in denying State's motion of its intention to introduce other-act evidence in defendant's trial, as the trial court erred in finding that the other-acts evidence was not relevant under O.C.G.A. § 24-4-404 (b).

  • The State v. Orr

    Publication Date: 2018-04-18
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emily Johnson (District Attorney's Office Rome Judicial Circuit), Rome; Leigh Patterson (District Attorney), Rome; Luke Martin (Floyd County District Attorney), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Pierman (McCurdy & Candler LLC), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2096

    The trial court did not err in granting defendant's motion for new trial following his convictions for family violence battery and cruelty to children in the third degree because the prosecutor impermissibly commented on defendant's pre-arrest silence in her closing argument and the error was not harmless.

  • Avery et al. v. Paulding County Airport Authority et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Transportation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles McKnight, Alison Ballard (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Baker (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta; J. Davis, Lee Carter (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0849

    The Court partially reversed the dismissal of three related declaratory judgment actions arising out of the efforts of a county and a county airport authority to apply for a commercial Airport Operating Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • Avery et al. v. Paulding County Airport Authority et al

    Publication Date: 2017-11-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Transportation
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles McKnight, Alison Ballard (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Baker (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta; J. Davis, Lee Carter (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0849

    The Court partially reversed the dismissal of three related declaratory judgment actions arising out of the efforts of a county and a county airport authority to apply for a commercial Airport Operating Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • Zaldivar v. Prickett

    Publication Date: 2015-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan C. Jones, Sean L. Hynes, and Andrew A. Curtright Downey Cleveland LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward M. Wynn III and James N. Sadd Slappey Sadd LLC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: John D. Hadden Turkheimer Hadden LLC, John C. Harris Jr., Atlanta, and Steven Salcedo, Decatur. Neutral Amicus: Alex M. Barfield and Martin Adam Levinson Hawkins Parnell Thackston Young LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S14G1778

    The trial court erred in finding that the trier of fact was precluded from considering any "fault" on the part of the plaintiff's non-party employer for the plaintiff's injuries arising from an aut

  • Georgia River Network v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2014-08-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
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    for defendant:
    Case Number: A14A0215; A14A0272; A14A0273; A14A0274

    A buffer variance was improperly issued to a County's board of commissioners allowing the County to encroach upon the 25-foot vegetative buffer the Erosion and Sedimentation Act requires in order to

  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0740

    LaFarge Bldg. Materials v. Pratt, 307 Ga. App. 767 2011, adversely decided the issue of whether the individual defendant's personal guaranty satisfied the Statute of Frauds in this suit on an accoun

  • Radio Perry Inc. v. Cox Commc'n Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Grant Greenwood and Thomas James James, Bates, Pope & Spivey, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Clyde Dow Lohnes, Atlanta, and Robert Gunn Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0399

    In this dispute over whether a cable company was required to continue to carry a local commercial television station, it was possible for the plaintiff to introduce evidence within the framework of