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  • Jones v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Hurt, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Watkinsville, Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Athens, John Floyd Woodham, (Woodham Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel Aldrich Jothan Callins, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Michael James King, Richard Joseph Valladares, Steven Jason Rosenwasser, Ernest Lamont Greer, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0652

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a challenge to certain ordinances connected to water bills to Atlanta residents, and remands for further analysis of atlanta utility fees

  • Mayo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, Stephany Julissa Luttrell, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Jeffrey Langley, Kelly Renae Holloway, (Enotah Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Blairsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0094

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's challenge to alleged inconsistency of jury instructions and jury form, and contentions of procedural error

  • Huff v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Paul Sharp, (Sharp Georgia Law Firm), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Melinda April Wynne, Gregory W. Edwards, (Dougherty County District Attorney’s Office), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1266

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over challenges to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of error, jury bias, and ineffective assistance