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  • Doyle v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacob Dennis Rhein, (Law Offices of Jacob D. Rhein), Lawrenceville, appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Min-soo Youn, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., Marc A. Mallon, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1005

    Court reversed murder conviction based on trial court's failure to give jury instructions on accomplice corroboration

  • Chavez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Leslie Anna Coots, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul L. Howard, Jr., David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1573

    Evidence Did Not Support Conviction for Possession of Firearm by First-Offender Probationer

  • Baines v. Daily News LP

    Publication Date: 2020-01-21
    Practice Area: Communications and Media | Discovery
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Alan Marin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donnell Baines, Defendant Pro Se: Romulus, New York.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Daily News, LP, et al By: Geoffrey S. Brounell, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York, New York.
    Case Number: 401845/2013

    Defendants Fail to Show Court Overlooked Law, Denied Application for Attorney's Deposition

  • El Paso County v. El Paso County Emergency

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-19-00105-CV

    In 2016, the El Paso County Commissioners Court denied the appellees', El Paso County Emergency Services Districts Nos. 1 and 2, recommended tax rates for fiscal year 2017, and later ratified the statutory rates.

  • Meisels v. Fox Rothschild LLP

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Legal Malpractice
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory | Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaVecchia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis P. Devine, III (Pepper Hamilton, attorneys; Francis P. Devine, III, and Angelo A. Stio, III, of counsel and on the briefs)
    for defendant: Brian K. Condon (Condon Catina & Mara, attorneys; Brian K. Condon and Laura M. Catina, on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-20/21-18 (081534)

    Lawyer's Distribution of Wired Trust Funds According to Client Instructions Could Not Constitute Conversion in Absence of Limiting Instructions on Wire

  • TV Azteca v. Ruiz

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Privacy
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Longoria
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 13-18-00287-CV

    Appellee, a prominent Mexican recording artist, was arrested and jailed in Brazil and Mexico on sex-trafficking charges but the charges were ultimately dismissed.

  • In the Interest of HLB

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Carlyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 05-18-01061-CV

    Father challenged the trial court's order granting mother's plea to the jurisdiction and dismissing his petition to modify the terms of their agreed final divorce decree governing school choice as well as father's obligation to pay for the children's private-school tuition.

  • Reverse Mortgage v. Robertson

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Real Estate | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 06-19-00063-CV

    Richard Nagle executed a will leaving his real property in a life estate to his wife Katie Nagle and the property was to vest in their daughters on Katie's death.

  • Martell v. Texas Concrete

    Publication Date: 2020-01-20
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Christopher
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-18-00764-CV

    In this restricted appeal of a no-answer default judgment, the return of service recited an impossible chronology in which the process server served the defendant in 2017 with a citation that the process server did not receive until 2018.

  • Marcum LLP v. Fazio, Mannuzza, Roche, Tankel, Lapilusa LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-01-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Suffolk
    Judge: Justice Elizabeth Emerson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff: Law Offices of Andrew Presberg, P.C., Islandia, New York.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendants: Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP, White Plains, New York.
    Case Number: 14831-12

    Plaintiff Fails to Establish Exception to General Rule of Nonliability Applies