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  • In The Matter Of Christopher Aaron Corley.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-13
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Ryd Bush Long (John R. B. Long P.C.), Augusta; John B. Long (Tucker Long P.C.), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula J. Frederick, Jonathan Winslow Hewett, Jenny K. Mittelman, Alison Leigh Burgess (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Y0350

    The Supreme Court accepted an attorney's petition for voluntary discipline and suspended him from the practice of law following his guilty plea to Domestic Violence First Degree in South Carolina.

  • Anthony v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Harvey Saul, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Vanessa Therese Meyerhoefer, Christopher M. Carr, John Stuart Melvin (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta; Michael Scott Carlson, John Richard Edwards, Jesse David Evans, D. Victor Reynolds, John Stuart Melvin (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1722

    The evidence supported defendants' convictions for murder after they beat a man and left him unconscious on a darkened roadway, where he was struck by a car and killed, but did not support defendants' convictions for criminal gang activity involving an affray, as there was no evidence that the victim was a willing participant in a fight.

  • Lucas v. Beckman Coulter, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-12
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dustin Thomas Brown, Peter John Daughtery (Daughtery Crawford & Brown, LLP), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurtis A. Powell, Robert Thomas Dumbacher (Hunton & Williams), Atlanta; Clayton Matthews Adams, Jeffrey Albright Brown (Brown & Adams LLC), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0541

    The Court of Appeals improperly construed O.C.G.A. § 16-11-135 (e), part of the Business Security and Employee Privacy Act, as granting employers immunity from all firearm-related tort liability for the acts of its employees and the Supreme Court thus reversed the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the grant of summary judgment to employee and employer in plaintiff's suit arising after employee accidentally shot him with a personal handgun while on a service call for employer at plaintiff's place of employment.

  • In The Matter Of Andre Keith Sanders.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-12
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andre Keith Sanders (Sanders Law PA), Saint Petersburg; Andre Keith Sanders, Saint Petersburg, for appellee. Jessica Oglesby, Atlanta; Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S18Y0383

    The Supreme Court imposed a 5-year suspension with conditions for reinstatement on an attorney as reciprocal discipline following disciplinary action in Florida.

  • In The Matter Of Sam Louis Levine.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-12
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Jacob Cobb, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sam Louis Levine (Law Offices of Sam Levine LLC), Atlanta, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta; Bridget B. Bagley, Atlanta; Anthony B. Askew, Atlanta; Jessica Oglesby, Atlanta; Patrick H. Head, Marietta; for other party.
    Case Number: S18Y0348

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney for his neglect of matters involving two clients and his misconduct arising out of his contentious divorce proceeding.

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  • Henderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sylvester Leon Henderson, Millen, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Roberta Ann Earnhardt, Alisha Adams Johnson (Rockdale County District Attorney's Office), Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1785

    The Supreme Court dismissed defendant's pro se appeal from the order denying his Objection to Order Denying Defendants Motion for Disclosure Grand Jury Testimony and Evidence" because the remedy defendant sought was not legally cognizable.

  • Hood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica M. O'Grady (GPDC Appellate Division), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham (Department of Law), Atlanta; Deborah D. Wellborn, Anna Green Cross, Sherry Boston (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1753

    The evidence supported defendant's convictions for felony murder and other crimes in connection with the shooting death of one person and the aggravated assault of another during a drug deal and the trial court did not plainly err in its jury charges.

  • Southeastern Pain Specialists, P.C. v. Brown et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Curtis Anderson (Downey & Cleveland LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Nicholas Sadd, Daniel Marshall Epstein, Edward Malcum Wynn III (Slappey & Sadd LLC), Atlanta; John E. Hall Jr., Nichole Lee Hair (Hall Booth Smith P.C.), Atlanta; Frank Mitchell Lowrey IV, Robert Lawrence Ashe III (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta; David Frank Root (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Neil Edwards (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0732

    The Court of Appeals erred in finding that an ordinary negligence instruction was authorized by evidence that a doctor defendant responded inadequately to medical data provided by certain medical equipment during a medical procedure and thus erred in affirming a nearly $22 million award following the trial court's erroneous jury instruction on ordinary negligence.

  • Doe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Hines
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Robert Filipovits (Filipovits Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Ashley Mallard, Keith A. McIntyre (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Statesboro, for appellee. Brenda Jean Smeeton, Michele Maria Young, Cory Isaacson (Georgia Justice Project), Atlanta; Nancy Rhinehart DeVetter (Georgia Legal Services), Savannah, for amicus appellant. Christopher M. Carr, Sarah Hawkins Warren (Department of Law), Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1694

    Because the appeal at issue did not invoke the Georgia Supreme Courts constitutional-question jurisdiction, the Court returned the appeal to the Court of Appeals.

  • Franklin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-04-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerilyn Lyshette Bell, Josh David Moore, Gerald P. Word (Georgia Capital Defenders), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; Emily Kathleen Richardson, Brian Keith Fortner, Sean Alexander Garrett (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1599

    The trial court properly concluded that it had no authority to determine prior to trial whether the aggravating circumstances State alleged would be sufficiently proved by the evidence to support the imposition of the death penalty.