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  • Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. et al. v. Kemp et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Aaron Emas, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Javier Pico-Prats, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Holly Anne Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Christopher M. CarrBryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Wayne Brown, Samuel Ethan Meller, (Augusta Law Department), Augusta, George R. Hall, William James Keogh, III, James Christopher Driver, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, Barry Abbott Fleming, Frank Adam Nelson, Paul Simon Patterson Williams, (Fleming & Nelson, LLP), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1263

    Voter Advocacy Organization Lacked Standing to Challenge Legislation Splitting Judicial Circuit Into Two New Circuits

  • Daniels v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Wadkins, Jr., (Wadkins & Wallace P.C.), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Columbus, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1268

    Juvenile Suspect Knowingly and Voluntarily Waived Constitutional Rights Before Speaking With Police

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Jadawnya Baker.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-23
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald J. Freeman, Sr., (Johnson & Freeman, LLC), Union City, Janise L. Miller, Atlanta, Richard L. Robbins, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Ronnie K. Batchelor, (Gwinnett Co. Justice & Administration), Lawrenceville, for other party.
    Case Number: S20Z1070

    Public Reprimand of Judge Appropriate Discipline for Periodically Dismissing Cases Without Legal Authority

  • Ware v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jermaine Ware, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Milledgeville, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr, (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0098

    Court vacates motion in arrest of judgment on a malice murder conviction and remands with directions to dismiss the motion as untimely.

  • In the Matter of Jerry Boykin.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Boykin, Powder Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jenny K. Mittelman, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22Y0563

    Court accepts attorney's petition for violation of Rules 505(a) and 8.4(a)(4)

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    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, William C. Enfinger, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0005

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • Williams v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0210

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenges to evidence and assertions of trial court error

  • Ward v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katie Alice Hingerty Borodin, (The Hingerty Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Eliot Jay Abt, (ABT Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Allison Thatcher Mauldin, Tuttle Wright Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Greensboro, Gray, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1309

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company v. City of College Park et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Michael Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karen Eleice Woodward, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, Alwyn Robert Fredericks, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, Alisha I. Wyatt-Bullman, Reginald Bernard McClendon, Joshua Stanley Foster, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Joseph M. Colwell, (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0482

    City did not waive sovereign immunity claims for amounts above liability insurance limits even though it purchased insurance for higher amounts

  • Edible IP, LLC v. Google, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Intellectual Property
    Industry: Advertising
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Arnold Pickens, Andrew Dorsey Stancil, (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, Jason James Carter, Ronan Patrick Doherty, Patrick Christopher Fagan, Solesse Lane Altman, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric Peter Schroeder, Brian McKinley Underwood, Jr., (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Margret Mary Caruso, (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP), Redwood Shores, for appellee; John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bret S Moore, (Broughton LAW), Atlanta, Amicus Appellant; Todd Wuescher Beauchamp, Rachel S. Horn, Carolyn Homer, Sarang Damle, (Latham & Watkins LLP), Washington, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0798

    Court affirms dismissal of complaint for failure to state a claim for theft, conversion, money had and received, and Georgia RICO Act violations