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  • NY GO Express Inc. v. New York State Insurance Fund

    Publication Date: 2018-07-18
    Practice Area: Employment Compliance
    Industry: Insurance | Transportation
    Court: Supreme Court, Warren County
    Judge: Justice Robert Muller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For petitioners: Peter Fidopiastis, Queensbury.
    for defendant: For respondent: Shannon C. Krasnokutski of counsel, Barbara D. Underwood, Acting Attorney General, Albany.
    Case Number: 64419

    StateInsurance Fund's Assessment of Additional Premiums Unless Freight Carriers Shown to

  • Yellowstone Capital v. Cent. USA Wireless

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court, Erie
    Judge: Justice Timothy Walker
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Attorneys for Plaintiff: Steven W. Wells, Esq., Of Counsel, Christopher Castro, Esq., Of Counsel, Hodgson Russ, LLP.
    for defendant: Attorneys for Defendant: Lewis A. Bartell, Esq., Of Counsel, Law Office of Lewis A. Bartell.
    Case Number: 811837/2017

    Agreements Not Usurious Loans; Vacating Confession of Judgment, Voiding Agreement Denied

  • State Of Texas v. Fowler

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Burgess
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 06-16-00032-CR

    The appellee was found guilty of burglary, after a jury trial, and was sentenced to 6 months incarceration.

  • Ortiz v. State of Texas

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Rodriguez
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 08-15-00078-CR

    Appellant, Jose Ortiz, appealed his conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver primarily objecting to the trial court's denial of his motion to reveal the identity of an informant.

  • Wade v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Winchester (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Michael Alexander Oldham, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anna Green Cross, Sherry Boston, Otobong U. Ekpo (DeKalb County District Attorneys Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0327

    Although the evidence supported defendant's convictions for murder and related offenses arising out of the beating death of his girlfriend's 18-month-old son, the Court vacated his sentence and remanded for resentencing because the trial court erred in failing to merge certain counts.

  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Cope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Lee Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague (Department of Law), Atlanta; Margaret Ellen Heap, Emily Catherine Puhala (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0313

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions related to the death of his brothers' roommate and the trial court did not err in admitting two statements defendant made to police after the murder.

  • 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.