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  • Langley v. MP Spring Lake, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-11-18
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Gebhardt, (Gebhardt Law Firm), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sun S. Choy, Jacob Edward Daly, Wes C. Jackson, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Valdosta, for appellee. Dana J. Norman, Thomas Charles Blaska, Thomas C. Blaska, (The Blaska Law Firm), Atlanta, Laura Wilson Speed, (Speed & King LLC), Atlanta, John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Caleb Frank Walker, (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon, Janise L. Miller, Atlanta, Kenneth M. Sissel, Lilburn, Alan B. Gordon, Lilburn, Eugene C. Brooks, IV, (Brooks Law Office), Savannah, Cole Thaler, Crystal Angelique Redd, (Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation), Atlanta,, for Amicus Appellant. Mark W. Wortham, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Hall F. McKinley, III, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, Martin Adam Levinson, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Garret Warrington Meader, (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Brunswick, James Miachaell Williams, (Fowler Hein Passino Cheatwood & Williams, LLP), Atlanta, John J. McDermott, (National Apartment Association), Arlington, for Amicus Appellee. Kevin Patrick Branch, Zach M. Matthews, (McMickle, Kurey & Branch, LLP), Alpharetta, for other party.
    Case Number: S18G1326

    Limitations provision in lease agreement applies only to contractual actions arising under the lease and not to tort claims

  • Smith v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-11-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    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, Margaret Ellen Heap, Jennifer Leigh Parker, Greg McConnell, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Savannah, Elizabeth Haase Brock, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0936

    Court affirms malice murder and other convictions over defendants' arguments on sufficiency and admission of evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Rodrigues v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victor Philip Aloisio, David James Dunn, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr., (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, Kevin Jameson Baugh, (Office of the District Attorney), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0530

    Court affirms murder convictions over defendant's challenge to witness testimony regarding prior bad acts

  • Rockdale Hospital, LLC v. Evans et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-24
    Practice Area: Health Care Law | Medical Malpractice | Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel James Huff, Sharonda Boyce Barnes, Randolph Page Powell, Jr., (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lloyd Noland Bell, (Bell Law Firm), Atlanta, Sidney Leighton Moore, III, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Lawrence Bernard Schlachter, (Schlachter Law Firm PC), Atlanta, James O. Wilson, Jr., (Trial Lawyers), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1189

    Court of Appeals Erred in Overriding Medical Malpractice Jury's Zero Damages Award For Past Pain and Suffering

  • Georgiacarry.Org., Inc. et al. v. Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Baird Carpenter, James Charles Grant, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Henry R. Chalmers, Andrew Clay Stevens, (Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1149

    Private Lessee of Public Property May Not Exclude Persons Carrying Firearms Unless Lease Conferred Present Estate to Lessee

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  • Reid v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-10-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Perry Waters, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Katherine DeRosa Emerson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Karl David Cooke, Jr., Nancy Scott Malcor, Shelley T. Milton, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0762

    Court affirms malice murder convictions over evidentiary challenge and enumerations of trial court error.

  • Holmes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-25
    Practice Area: Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Anthony Jones, Jr., (Jones Appellate Law Practice), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Min-soo Youn, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0559

    Trial Court Failed to Exercise its Discretion to Act as the 'Thirteenth Juror' in Ruling Upon Defendant's Motion for a New Trial

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory Davis Smith, (Conger & Smith, LLC), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, James Linder Prine, II, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Thomasville, Bradfield M. Shealy, (Southern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0880

    Court affirms murder and other convictions over defendant's contentions regarding insufficiency of evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel.

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Shane Howard, (McMillan & Rawlings, LLP), Sandersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Joshua Bradley Smith, Rebecca Ashley Wright, Natalie Spires Paine, (Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0694

    Court affirms murder conviction over challenges to effectiveness of defendant's counsel and counsel's failure to pursue a jury charge on insanity

  • Welch v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-09-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Benjamin Bennett, (Bennett & Connell, LLC), Adel, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Vanessa Therese Sassano, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Richard Lowery Perryman, III, Rebekah Maddox Ditto, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Adel, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0846

    Evidence Did Not Support Murder Defendant's Claim He Shot Burglary Victim Accidentally