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  • LVNV Funding v. Sengillo

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Monroe
    Judge: Justice Thomas Stander
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorney for Plaintiff: Tess E. Gunther, Esq., Co-counsel, Forster & Garbus, LLP, Commack, New York.
    for defendant: Mallory K. Smith, Esq., Co-counsel, Davidson Fink LLP, Rochester, New York.; Attorney for Defendant: David M. Kaplan, Esq., Penfield, New York.
    Case Number: 2017/05221

    Debtor Fails to Sufficiently Establish Entitlement to Summary Judgment Against Debt Buyer

  • Caldwell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth D. Kondritzer (Fulton County Solicitor General's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Paul L. Howard Jr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, David K. Getachew-Smith Sr. (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0640

    The trial court did not manifestly abuse its discretion in refusing to strike three potential jurors for cause in defendant's felony murder trial arising out of the beating death of his girlfriend's 15-month-old daughter.

  • Dalton v. Dalton

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boyd
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 17-0155

    Texas granted a couple a divorce incorporating by reference an order from an Oklahoma court regarding spousal support.

  • American K-9 v. Freeman

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hecht
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 15-0932

    A civilian on a military base in Afghanistan was bit by a dog and sued her employer, the employer's carrier, and the private military contractors that handled the dogs, alleging negligent training of the dogs.

  • Cont'l Ins. Co. v. Honeywell Int'l, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-09
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance | Manufacturing
    Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaVecchia
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew T. Frankel (Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, attorneys; Stefano V. Calogero, of counsel; Stefano V. Calogero, Andrew T. Frankel, Tanya M. Mascarich, on the briefs)
    for defendant: Michael J. Lynch (K&L Gates, attorneys; Michael J. Lynch, Donald E. Seymor, John T. Waldron, and Donald W. Kiel, on the briefs)
    Case Number: A-21-16 (078152)

    New Jersey Law Applied to Insurance Liability Allocation Dispute as Domicile of Insured with Significant Factual Relationship to Case

  • Matter of S.B.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Family Law | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Chemung
    Judge: Justice David Guy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Petitioner was represented by Scolaro Fetter Grizanti & McGough, P.C., Douglas J. Mahr, Esq. and Gina M. Glover, Esq., of counsel.
    for defendant: Robert L. Halpin, Esq., The Halpin Law Firm, was appointed counsel by the Court to represent AIP.; Mental Hygiene Legal Service (3rd Dept.), Richard Wenig, Esq., of counsel, was appointed by the Court as Court Evaluator.; Denice Hamm, Esq., Hamm & Roe, LLP, represented sister of petitioner.
    Case Number: 2017-1474

    AIP Cannot be Compelled to Undergo Requested Evaluation Denying Article 81 Petition

  • Roff-Wexler v. Morandi LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, New York
    Judge: Justice Sherry Heitler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 160031/15

    Fact Issue of Entity Responsible for Sidewalk Where Plaintiff Fell Denies Summary Judgment

  • Maxim Cabaret, Inc. d/b/a Maxim Cabaret et al. v. City Of Sandy Springs, Georgia

    Publication Date: 2018-07-03
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Cory Goldsmith Begner, Eric A. Coffelt (Begner & Begner P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Dean Bergthold (Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold PLLC), Chattanooga; Harvey S. Gray (Gray Rust St. Amand Moffett & Brieske LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0496

    The trial court properly granted City's motion for summary judgment in strip club's suit challenging certain City ordinances.

  • In The Interest Of H O

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Keyes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 01-17-00633-CV

    Mother and child tested positive for amphetamines at the time of birth.

  • In The Interest Of KL A Child

    Publication Date: 2018-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Jamison
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 14-16-01022-CV

    In a conservatorship action, grandparents objected to the appointment of an attorney ad litem for the father of one of the children and asked trial court to declare that Government Code chapter 17 violated the separation of powers doctrine of the Texas Constitution.