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  • Hollis et al. v. City of Lagrange

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A0963

    Court vacates dismissal of complaint challenging city's utility charges as unconstitutional taxes and remands with direction for further review

  • Garcia v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Sliger, (McDonald & Cody, LLC), Alto, Charles Madden Cork, III, (Law Offices of Charles M. Cork, III), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bradford Lee Rigby, Lauren Warbington Fletcher, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele,, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A1161

    Court Dismisses Appeal Based on a Constitutional Due Process Challenge to Statutory Service of Process Provisions in a Civil Forfeiture Case Because Defendant Had Been Otherwise Served

  • Williams et al. v. Powell et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David N. Dreyer, Quinton G. Washington, Deana Holiday Ingraham, (Washington Dreyer & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr., (Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC), Atlanta, Ebony Jervonnè Brown, Megan Toomer, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Zack Greenamyre, (Mitchell & Shapiro LLP), Atlanta, , for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Deborah Nolan Gore, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Zachary Mullinax, Justin Thomas Golart, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0591

    Court constitutionality of statute that places restrictions on disruptive conduct in legislative spaces

  • Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Stuart Freed, Thomas Christopher Grant, Daniel Yijie Wang, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, John Thomas Morgan, III, (Law Offices of Tom Morgan), Decatur, Alexander Volokh, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Ronald Joseph Stay, Jr., Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0726

    Court affirms constitutionality of statute that imposes assessments on adult entertainment establishments

  • King v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-12-10
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Surinder Chadha Jimenez, (The Chadha Jimenez Law Firm, LLC), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, John Fowler, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Hallie Dixon, (Office of the District Attorney, Coweta Judicial Circuit- Troup Office), LaGrange, for appellee; Thomas Clyde, Kurtis Anderson, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A1125

    Trial Court Erred in Closing Courtroom to Public and Media During Jury Selection Voir Dire Without Issuing Written Order

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  • Columbia County v. Satcher et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cathey, Fort Gordon, James Ellington, William Keogh, (Hull Barrett PC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, Harry Revell, Alexander Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, William Trotter, (William A. Trotter, III, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0774

    On remand from the Georgia Supreme Court, court vacates an injunction against Columbia County and remands to determine whether the injunction exceeded limits on sovereign immunity

  • 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

  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-09-23
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Jackson, Robert Hunnicutt, (Carroll County Solicitor's Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preston Haliburton, (Haliburton Law Firm), Atlanta, Jeffery Dickerson, (Attorney at Law), Kennesaw, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1042

    Court reverses trial court's order granting defendant's plea in bar to DUI charges, finding that payment of fines did not raise double jeopardy issues

  • Christopher Massey v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-09
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. James Rockefeller, (Rockefeller Law Center), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradford Lee Rigby, Lauren Warbington Fletcher, (Cordele Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Cordele, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0131

    Court vacates trial court order prohibiting a convicted defendant from possessing a firearm and remands case for reconsideration in light of new U.S. Supreme Court precedent

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey Tate, (Office of the Circuit Public Defender, Southwestern Judicial Circuit), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Lamb, Cania Brown-Gordon, (Southwestern District Attorney’s Office), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0583

    Court reverses trial court's denial of motion to suppress due to lack of probable cause in a search warrant affidavit to collect evidence from a car's electronic control module