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  • In the Matter of Shelitha Renee Robertson

    Publication Date: 2024-08-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24Y0857

    Court suspends attorneys license following her felony convictions pending her appeal of those convictions

  • In the Matter of Christopher Tyson

    Publication Date: 2024-08-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24Y0534

    Court rejects six-month suspension request for attorney's misconduct in handling client funds

  • Tibbetts v. Worth County School District et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-21
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, William White, Matthew Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb, & White), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1542

    Court vacates its prior opinion and adopts Supreme Court ruling that a former teacher's breach of contract action was barred by sovereign immunity because a valid contract had not been formed

  • Thompson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Luttrell, (Attorney at Law), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Baker, (Griffin Judicial Circuit), Fayetteville, Elizabeth Racine, (Douglas County District Attorney), Douglasville, Aimee Sobhani, (DeKalb County Government-Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0876

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and armed robbery over defendant's objection to admittance of surveillance video and challenge to an omitted jury instruction

  • Wilson et al. v. Inthachak et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-21
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hudson, (Attorney), Douglas, Ranse Partin, William Owens, James Cox, (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Dekle, Sandra Foster, Wiley Wasden, (Brennan, Wasden and Painter, LLC), Savannah, for appellee; Michael Bailey, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, Jarome Gautreaux, (Gautreaux Law, LLC), Macon, John Loftin, Gainesville, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0398

    Court vacates summary judgment in medical misdiagnosis case, citing factual questions on emergency care and causation

  • 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.

  • In the Matter of Christopher Michael Howlette.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Allen Earles, Kevin Charles Wilson, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Michael Howlette, Union City, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24Z0940

    Certification of fitness for readmission granted to Christopher Michael Howlette upon demonstrating rehabilitation and community engagement.

  • In the Matter of Curtis Lee Allen

    Publication Date: 2024-08-20
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis Lee Allen, (Bush Ross PA), Tampa, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Stephen Lewis, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, III, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24Y0865

    Court rejects petition for voluntary reciprocal discipline due to deficiencies, including lack of documentation and evidence for retroactive suspension.

  • Grant v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Jane Thomas, Grace Guthrie Griffith, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Meredith Leigh Layman, Richard Scott Harrison, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0843

    Court affirms felony murder conviction, finding that evidence of defendant's participation in robbery and murder was sufficient to support the verdict

  • Tavarez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Horne Petrey, (Dekalb County Public Defender’s Office), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. 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 appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0532

    Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel and claims that his trial was compromised because he was shackled