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  • Ponder et al. v. Davis et al.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-07
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S25A0095

    Court dismisses appeal to denial of petition challenging judicial candidate's qualifications because appellants failed to take timely action

  • Jiles v. The State

    Publication Date: 2025-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1113

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, rejecting claims of trial court errors and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Gude v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Bradley Kleinrock, (Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1356

    Court Affirms Convictions in a Felony Murder Case and Rejects Defendant's Claims of Jury Instruction Error and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Starks v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan C. Malone, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; D. Parks White, Michael Martin Coveney, (Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Danielsville, Jeffrey Lee, (Office of the Elbert County District Attorney), Elberton, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A1015

    Court Affirms Felony Murder Conviction and Sentencing for High-Speed Chase Death Over Defendant's Claim of. Ineffective Assistance of Counsel and the State's Claim of Merger Error

  • Espinosa v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon A. Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hillm, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Clayton McLean Fuller, Bruce Edward Roberts, Herbert E. Franklin, Jr, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1090

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea to malice murder, finding that plea counsel did not provide ineffective assistance but made strategic counsel decisions

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  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Bowman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Suzanne Wilkes, (Tallapoosa Circuit Public Defender), Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Craig Joseph Pake (Department of Law), Atlanta, Oliver Jackson Browning, Jr., (Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0642

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and challenge to admission of other acts evidence

  • Miller v. Hodge et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-05
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffry L. Miller, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Mason Perkins, Wes Parker Rahn, (Oliver Maner, LLP), Savannah, R. Jonathan Hart, (Hart & Associates Law Firm LLC), Savannah, Andre Pretorius, (Chatham County Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee; Paul C. Kunst, (Paul C. Kunst PC.), Barnesville, Todd Andrew Harding, (Harding Law Firm, LLC), Griffin, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0490

    Court dismisses election contest appeal due to lack of prompt litigation

  • Golden v. Floyd Healthcare Management, Inc. d/b/a Floyd Medical Center

    Publication Date: 2024-08-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Brian Terry, Jane D. Vincent, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, William Sims Stone, Ryals Drayton Stone, Michael George Regas, II, (The Stone Law Group – Trial), Atlanta, C Sutton Connelly, (Cook & Connelly), Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julius Winfrey Peek, Jr., Robert Thomas Monroe, Jason Bradley Sanker, Benjamin Pleas Stell, (McRae, Smith, Peek, Harman & Monroe, LLP), Rome, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24G0008

    Court reverses dismissal of medical malpractice renewal action, holding that COVID emergency orders tolled statute of repose.

  • Omstead v. BPG Inspection, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-15
    Practice Area: Contracts | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Darren Summerville, Kristopher Robert Alderman, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Lance D. Lourie, Stephen Roberts Chance, Andrew John King, (Lourie Chance Forlines Carter & King, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leah Ward Sears, Edward Davison Burch, Jr., Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Charles Samuel Conerly, (Smith Conerly, LLP), Carrollton, for appellee; Meagan Myers Hanson, (Georgians For Lawsuit Reform), Atlanta, Atlanta,, Kevin Bradford Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; Madeleine Norine Simmons, (Stewart Miller Simmons), Atlanta, Madeline Elizabeth McNeeley, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Brookhaven, Caleb Frank Walker, (The McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G0771

    Court affirms enforceability of one-year contractual limitation for filing tort and contract suits against a contractor, holding that the limitation is not void as against public policy