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  • Session v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-05-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Syrop, Allen Rust Knox, (Paulding Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Dallas, Hunter Joseph Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law LLC), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anthony Brett Williams, Matthew Wayne Rollins, (Paulding County District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0022

    Court affirms conviction for failing to register as a sex offender based on acts conducted in another state

  • Nundra v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cara Clark, (Dwayne C. Singleton, LLC), Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0043

    No Error in Allowing Prosecutor to Compare Defendant With Sociopaths and Serial Killers During Closing Argument

  • Amy N. Cazier et al. v. Georgia Power Company

    Publication Date: 2023-02-24
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Frank Salter, Jr., Roy E. Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, James Glenn Richardson, (Talley, Richardson & Cable), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Middleton Droze, Robert Pursley Edwards, Jr., Thomas Edward Reilly, William Alexander Smith, Christopher John Kelleher, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Shondeana Crews Morris, Georgia, Jeffery O'Neal Monroe, (Macon Judicial Circuit), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: S22C0513

    Law of the Case Doctrine Precluded Revisiting Reliance on Federal Chevron-Deference Review Principles

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Aaron Loudon-Brown, Whitney Knox Lee, (Southern Center For Human Rights), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher Mark DeNeve, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, Brenda Lopez Romero, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1051

    Court vacates denial of extraordinary motion for a new trial on a murder charge and remands for a hearing on the defendant's new trial motion.

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. v. Henry County Board of Commissioners

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, Taylor Wayne Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Patrick DeBorde Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee; Walker L. Chandler, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree City, Mawuli M. Malcolm Davis, (The Davis Bozeman Law Firm), Decatur, for Other Party; Les A. Schneider, Thomas Leland Walker, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Martin Kenneth OToole, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Justin Tharpe Holcombe, (Skaar & Feagle, LLP), Woodstock, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0039

    Court concludes that an individual has stand to sue for injunctive relief to prevent removal of monuments, but community groups do not.

  • In the Interest of C.C. et al., Children.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Buell Hume, (Hume, Jaacks & Associates, LLC), Cumming, Brittani Chandler, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Shalen S. Nelson, Bryan Keith Webb, Emily Allen Harris, Christopher M. Carr, Hannah Basta, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kris-Ann Poe, Hiawassee Rochelle Ann Doyle, Roswell, for appellee; Melissa D. Carter, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, Edward Albert Bedard, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus; Mathew K. Titus, (Titus Law LLC), Alpharetta, Victoria Cuneo Powell, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Kurtis George Anderson, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22A0584

    Juvenile Court Applied Wrong Standard in Determining Parents' Religious Objection to Vaccinating Children Was Insincere