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  • 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

  • Nicholson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Lenny I. Krick, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0992

    Court affirms murder convictions of two gang members who participated in a planned killing

  • Gebhardt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Scott Johnston, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Benjamin David Coker, Brittany Ashton Fallin, (Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Griffin, Marc A. Mallon, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1582

    Evidence at Trial Was Sufficient to Support Conviction of Malice Murder in Connection with Torture and Stabbing That Took Place in 1983

  • Reed v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-01-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Layla Hinton Zon, Amber Rae Bennett, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1342

    Police Did Not Improperly Induce Defendant's Incriminating Pretrial Statement by Hope of Benefit

  • NLD Inc v. Huang

    Publication Date: 2020-01-13
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-17-00885-CV

    Appellee, Huang, brokered sale of a motel by Nyguen, the president of appellant NLD to buyer Bhakta.