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  • Wyatt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0487

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence of his prior attack against his ex-wife

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0623

    Court reverses a decision transferring a case to juvenile court, holding that superior court retained jurisdiction where defendant was reindicted beyond the 180-day statutory window

  • Vest Monroe, LLC et al. v. John Doe

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, David V. Hayes, Kimberly Logue Woodland, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy Robinson Kelly, IV, Caitlin Derst, (Kelly & Kelly LLP), Savannah, Joseph Alan White, Scott Lester Bonder, (Fried Bonder White), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1224

    Court reverses appellate court and affirms trial court's denial of class certification in a lawsuit against a medical service provider due to lack of typicality among class member claims

  • North American Senior Benefits, LLC v. Wimmer et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thaddeus David Wilson, Valentin Leppert, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey David Mokotoff, Leslie B. Hartnett, Laura T. Yellig, (Ford & Harrison, LLP), Atlanta, Justin Beecher Connell, (Elarbee Thompson Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Meagan Myers Hanson, Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, John Phillip Jett, Kevin Bradford Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G1146

    Georgia Supreme Court clarifies that restrictive covenants may be enforceable without express geographic terms if they are reasonable in time, area, and scope

  • McElrath v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Maddox Kilgore, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, (Kilgore & Rodgriguez, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, Paul Richard Draper, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Stephanie Adrean Green, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0605

    Court vacates a portion of a prior opinion that had denied a plea in bar based on Constitutional Double Jeopardy and reverses that denial, thus preventing retrial on a malice murder charge

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  • In the Matter of Anthony O. Van Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-09-11
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lori Epps Anderson, Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael John Puglise, (Puglise Law Firm PC), Snellville, for appellee; Samuel Jeffrey Rusbridge, (Dyer Rusbridge Argo, P.C.), Canton, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1070

    Court accepts Georgia attorney's voluntary petition for surrender of his law license in view of attorney's separate serious violations of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct

  • In the Matter of Jonathan R. Melnick

    Publication Date: 2024-09-11
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Reuven Melnick, (Jonathan R. Melnick PC), Atlanta, for appellee; LaRae Dixon Moore, (Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker & Ford PC.), Columbus, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y0800

    Court suspends Georgia attorney's law license for six months, finding willful violations of Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct and aggravating factors that outweighed mitigating factors

  • Satcher et al. v. Columbia County

    Publication Date: 2024-09-11
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander Dixon Revell, Harry Duff Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, James Barrett Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William James Keogh, III, James Brian Ellington, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24G0336

    Court vacates an injunction against a county and remands for consideration of a narrower injunction reflecting sovereign immunity, and rejects a homeowners' challenge to damages limitations

  • Milliron v. Antonakakis

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Information Governance and Compliance
    Industry: Education
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Meredith Charlotte Kincaid, Anna Green Cross, (Cross Kincaid LLC), Decatur, Luke Andrews Andrews, (Poole Huffman LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Benson Randles, Mark E. Schamel, (Venable LLP), Washington, for appellee; Sarah Brewerton-Palmer, Katherine Wheeler Gamsey, Peter Crane Canfield, (Canfield Law LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24G0198

    Court determines that Open Records Act applies to individual private contractors as well as to public agencies, and reverses contrary decision and remands for further analysis

  • The State v. Newsom

    Publication Date: 2024-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Rebecca Lee Jackson, Robert Lowell Hunnicutt, (Carroll County Solicitor’s Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry Mac Christian Pilgrim, (The Pilgrim Law Group, LLC), Villa Rica, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0749

    Court reverses dismissal of charges in a DUI traffic violation case, finding that the relevant statute which defendant violated was not unconstitutionally vague