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  • Roberts v. Cuthpert

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, or appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Christopher Waymire, Terry Eugene Williams, (Williams & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0631

    Court holds that a party can seek costs and fees from a judge who denied a weapons carry license, finding that the judge did not have a sovereign immunity defense to the claim

  • Georgia CVS Pharmacy, LLC v. Carmichael

    Publication Date: 2023-08-15
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Brian David Trulock, (Magmutual Insurance Company), Atlanta, Carrie A. Moss, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Keith Robert Blackwell, William Joseph Repko, III, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Peter Andrew Law, Brian Colty Kaplan, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, James Alexander Rice, Jr., Andrew J. Brandt, (James A. Rice, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, , for appellee; Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, Valentin Leppert, Martha Banner Banks, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Rebecca Woods, Esther Slater McDonald, (Seyfarth Shaw LLP.), Atlanta, Adeline K Lambert, Kyle D. Hawkins, Drew F. Waldbeser, (Lehotsky Keller LLP), Atlanta, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Martin Adam Levinson, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Amicus Appellant; Gilbert H. Deitch, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips, William Michael D'Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0527

    Court rules that in premises liability cases, the reasonable foreseeability of a third-party criminal act is a factual determination linked to a proprietor's obligations

  • Southern States Chemical, Inc. et al. v. Tampa Tank & Welding, Inc. f/k/a Tampa Tank Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Tucker Barr, Andrew Clay Stevens, Natalie Cascario, David Lee Hobson, Jeffrey Young Lewis, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, Edwin W. King, Jr., (Edwin W. King, Jr., P.C.), Savannah, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mike O’Neal Crawford, Swift S. Currie, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Cecily Joy McLeod, Kimberly Council Sheridan, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; LaTisha Dear Jackson, (DeKalb County Superior Court), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: S23A0273

    Court affirms dismissal of breach of warranty claims that were barred by the pre-amendment statute of repose

  • State of Georgia et al. v. Federal Defender Program, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Criminal Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Adams Jacobs, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Sabrina Dawn Graham, Paula Khristian Smith, Jonathan David Loegel, Brooke Heinz Chaplain, Christopher M. Carr, Logan B. Winkles, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronan Patrick Doherty, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, John H. Fleming, (Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan), Atlanta, Ann Grunewald Fort, (Eversheds Sutherland LLP), Atlanta, Michael Adam Caplan, Julia Blackburn Stone Cameron Blaine Roberts, (Caplan Cobb LLP), Atlanta, Susan Jill Benton, Monet Brewerton-Palmer, (Federal Defender Program), Atlanta, for appellee; Patrick Mulvaney, Michael Boland Admirand, Ryan Primerano, (Southern Center For Human Rights), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; Anna Marie Arceneaux, (Georgia Resource Center), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S22A1099

    E-Mail Exchange Between Deputy Attorney General and Capital Defense Attorneys Was Contract Sufficient to Waive Sovereign Immunity

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    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, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, Juliana Sleeper, Karen S. Bemis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0530

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice Resulting From His Absence From Numerous Bench Conferences During Tria

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, David Joseph Walker, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, Frederick Lewis, Alonza Whitaker, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0069

    Court reverses murder convictions because trial court erred in removing and replacing a juror who was unable to agree to a guilty verdict

  • Munn v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-06-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Kathleen Leona McCanless, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0100

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's multiple enumerations of trial court error and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • Watkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-05-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd M. Buford, Jr., (Buford & Buford), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, Jason Michael Martin, Shelley T. Milton, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0016

    Evidence That Defendant's Sister Angered Him Not Sufficient to Change Felony Murder Conviction to Involuntary Manslaughter

  • Maynard et al. v. Snapchat, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Brian Terry, Amanda Kay Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Lawson Neff, Darryl Dwayne Adams, Susan Mary Cremer, Timothy Shane Peagler, (The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff, P.C.), Atlanta, Todd Robert Henningsen, (Henningsen Injury Attorneys, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori G. Cohen, Sean Patrick Jessee, Andrew Zachery Ryan Smith, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, Jonathan Hugh Blavin , Anne K. Conley , John Blackston Major Pope, (Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP), Los Angeles, Anne Dodson Gower, (Gower Wooten & Darneille LLC), Atlanta, Robert David Johnson, (Johnson & Alday, LLC), Marietta, for appellee; Brian DeVoe Rogers, (Rogers & Fite, LLC), Atlanta, Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group, PC), Atlanta, Paul Isaac Hotchkiss, (Hotchkiss Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (Bey And Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Steven Ashby, (The Ashby Firm), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; W. Ray Persons, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Michael L. Eber, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0555

    Manufacturer's Duty of Care Extended to Selecting From Alternative Product Designs in Light of Foreseeable Risks of Harm

  • Cook v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, William Wright Banks, Jr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee; Jill Anderson Travis, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Greg Allen Willis, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Joseph Scott Key, (Miller & Key, PA), McDonough, Peter J. Skandalakis, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, James C. Bonner, Jr., (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S21A1270

    Criminal Defendant Alleging Deprivation of Right of Appeal Due to Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Must Seek Habeas Relief