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  • Monroe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karin Kissiah, Michael A. Schwartz, (Georgia Capital Defender's Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin E. Gephardt, Robert German, Jr., (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Woodbine, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0324

    Court vacates and dismisses application for interlocutory appeal because applicant failed to challenge all bases for the denial of his request

  • Eason et al. v. Lundy

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon L. Joyner, (The Law Offices of Gordon Joyner), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen N. Hollomon, Warner Robins, for appellee; LaRhonda W. Patrick, (Williams Patrick Law LLC), Warner Robbins, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22A0533

    Court affirms superior court decision that a mayoral candidate satisfied Fort Valley residency requirements and should be included on election ballot

  • Hooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Jillian H. GibsonBradley Robert Thompson, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, Leslie Anna Coots, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0289

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's challenges to trial court's failure to give a jury instruction on corroboration of confessions

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tracy S. Drake, Scott Andrew Drake, (Drake Estes Law Firm LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0170

    Court affirms conviction for felony murder over defendant's contentions of trial court error in admitting certain evidence and not conducting an evidentiary hearing

  • Doe v. Saint Joseph's Catholic Church et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Jane D. Vincent, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Darren Wade Penn, Alexandra "Sachi" Cole, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Melina Danielle Lewis, (University of Georgia School of Law), Athens, Emily M. Hetherington, (Wilbanks Cease Clinic), Athens, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G0549

    Trial Court Erred in Concluding Plaintiff Could Not Present Evidence Sufficient to Toll Running of Time to Sue Church

  • McEntyre v. Sam's East, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph West Dent, (Joseph W. Dent, P.C.), Albany, Alfreda Lynette Sheppard, (Watson Spence LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ernest Linwood Beaton, Howard M. Lessinger, (McLain & Merritt), Atlanta, John Holder Smith, Jr., (Young Thagard Hoffman Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, for appellee; Keith Robert Blackwell, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21Q0909

    Tort Claim Arising From Store Employee's Failure to Properly Secure Load on Customer's Truck Subject to Ordinary Negligence Analysis

  • Graham v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Juliana Sleeper, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0053

    Court affirms felony murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Junior v. Graham

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben C. Brodhead, III, Ashley Brooke Fournet, John Wesley Ingram Nichols, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Brian Terry, Michael Brandon Jones, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Joseph Robb Cruser, Raymond Russell Grant, II, (Cruser & Mitchell, LLP), Norcross, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21G0578

    Post-Trial Attorney Fee Award For Litigation Expenses Did Not Preclude Separate Award For Failure to Accept Settlement Offer

  • Burns v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew Findling, Marissa Goldberg, Zachary James Kelehear, (The Findling Law Firm, P. C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, Ruth M. Pawlak, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0905

    Amendments to Statutes Applied When Peace Officer Was Later Indicted With Respect to Crimes Committed Prior to Amendments

  • Riley v. Georgia Association of Club Executives

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Alex Fredrick Sponseller, John Scott Forbes, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Miles Christian Skedsvold, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary Stuart Freed, Thomas Christopher Grant, Gerald Travis Chichester, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, John Thomas Morgan, III, (Law Offices of Tom Morgan), Decatur, Alexander Volokh, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0899

    Successor Public Official Could Not be Automatically Substituted For Predecessor Official Sued in Her Individual Capacity