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  • MacMillan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1167

    Court affirms convictions for armed robbery and aggravated assault over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and alleged jury instruction error

  • Mabvurunge v. Katsande

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Calvin Mabvurunge, Burnsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Head, (Cohen & Caproni, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Brook Davidson, (Stewart, Melvin & Frost), Gainesville, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0737

    Court vacates dismissal of biological father's appeal and remands in a conservatorship case, holding that OCGA § 15-9-123 (a) does not apply to the father's appeal to the superior court.

  • Young v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marsha Mignott, (The Mignott Law Group, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Flynn Broady, Linda Dunikoski, (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0793

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion to withdraw a negotiated guilty plea in a robbery case

  • Emory University d/b/a Emory University Hospital Smyrna et al. v. Kennestone Hospital, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-18
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Threlkeld, Elliott Coward, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Armando Basarrate, David Darden, Grace Blood, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs), Atlanta, David Conley, Robert Ingram, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Amy Weil, (The Weil Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Stacey Hillock, Daniel Walsh, Dale Cecka, (Department Of Community Health), Atlanta, Cathelynn Tio, (U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0111

    On remand from the Georgia Supreme Court, the court vacated its prior opinion and ruled that a hospital must obtain a certificate of need ("CON") to revert to a short-stay acute care facility

  • Howard Russell Yntema v. Leah Smith

    Publication Date: 2024-10-17
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Paul Martin, (Martin Demelfi, LLC), Atlanta, Ulice Sauls, III, (Sauls Law Group LLC), Peachtree Corners, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dawn Hunsicker Taylor, (Dawn H. Taylor LLC), Suwanee, for appellee; Kathryn T. Franklin, (Franklin Family Law, PC), Buford, for other party.
    Case Number: S24C0850

    Court denies review of speech restriction order in a divorce proceeding, but acknowledges potential due process concerns for nonparties

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  • In the Matter of Cory D. Raines.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-17
    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: Cory D Raines, (Raines Legal Group PC), Atlanta, for appellee; Charles David Jones, (Charles D. Jones Attorney at Law LLC), Griffin, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y0996

    Court disbars attorney for misappropriation of client funds in two personal injury cases

  • Gallegos-Munoz v. State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, John Williams, Clifford Louis Kurlander, John Stuart Melvin, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24G0214

    Court vacates child molestation conviction and remands case for application of correct current standard to assess admissibility of victim's alleged false accusation against a third party

  • Gonzalez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Craig Joseph Pake, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Penny Alane Penn, Jennifer Lynn Scalia, (Forsyth County District Attorney’s Office), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0913

    Court affirms malice murder conviction, and rejects defendant's claims of improper admission of his pre-Miranda statement and claims of improper evidence collection

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases

  • Pyne v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kalki Yalamanchili, (Y’Chili Law LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0670

    Court affirms convictions for murder and other crimes, and rejects claims of ineffective assistance of counsel and improper closing argument by prosecutor