• Wise Business Forms, Inc. v. Forsyth County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George E. Butler, II, (Law Offices of George E. Butler II, LLC), Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Julie Adams Jacobs, Alkesh Bhanuprasad Patel, Logan B. Winkles, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Christopher J. Hamilton, Gregory Aaron Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Luther Harold Beck, Jr., Mary Josephine Leddy Volkert, John Harold Zwald, (Beck Zwald & Associates LLC), Buford, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22G0874

    Claim For Inverse Condemnation by Permanent Nuisance Accrued When Property Owner First Discovered Damage

  • Chaney v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chris Smith, (Riverbend Correctional Facility), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0892

    Demand For New Trial Based on Trial Counsel's Ineffective Assistance Should Have Been Raised by Petition for Habeas Relief

  • Annunziata v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Alan Anderson, (Atlanta Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Jayna Edwards, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0715

    Evidence Did Not Warrant Instruction on Voluntary Manslaughter

  • Hospital Authority of Wayne County v. Amerisourcebergen Drug Corporation, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-28
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Health Care Law
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bunnell Smith, (Smith, Phelps & Murray), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eileen Elizabeth H. Rumfelt, Robert Foust Parsley, Elizabeth J Marquardt, (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta, Robert A. Nicholas, Shannon E. McClure, (Reed Smith LLP), Philidelphia, Enu A. Mainigi, Jennifer G. Wright, Steven Pyser, Ashley Hardin, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Geoffrey E. Hobart, Mark H. Lynch, Christian J. Pistilli, (Covington & Burling LLP), Washington, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Yosef G. Schaffel, Elaine P. Golin, (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), New York Elizabeth C. Helm, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Charles C. Lifland, (O’Melveny & Myers LLP), Los Angeles, for appellee; William Wright Banks, Jr., Ross Warren Bergethon, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, Wayne R. Beckermann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; David Cohen, Cleveland for other party.

    Case Number: S23Q0486

    Health Agency Lacked Authority to Challenge Constitutionality of Statute Barring Post-Settlement Claims Against Pharmaceutical Companies

  • Randolph v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Michael Starosto, Jr., (Star Law, PC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski. Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., (Cobb County District Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0636

    Similarities and Temporal Proximity Between Prior Robbery and Current Charged Offense Demonstrated Probative Value to Prove Intent

  • Beltran-Gonzales v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Chappell, II, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Jameson Baugh, Matthew William Moore, Clayton McLean Fuller, (Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Ringgold, Chris Allen Arnt, (Superior Court Judge-LMJC), Trenton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0710

    Trial Counsel's Decision Not to Object to Joint Murder Trial Was Not Objectively Unreasonable

  • Demuro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Jones Walker, (Eastern Judicial Circuit Office of the Public Defender), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Margaret Ellen Heap, (Office of the District Attorney Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, Aletha Claire Farley, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0647

    Court Reporter's Difficulty Transcribing Court's Verbal Instructions Insufficient to Establish Instructions Were Not Complete

  • Morris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Ruth M. Pawlak, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0588

    Court affirmed convictions for malice murder over defendant's contentions that the evidence was insufficient to support those convictions

  • Reese v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Kyle Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0550

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and drug charges over defendant's contentions of trial court jury instruction error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Henderson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-09-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Vance Patterson, (The Law Office of Brian V. Patterson, LLC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Thomas L. Williams, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0559

    Court affirms convictions of jointly-tried defendants for malice murder and other crimes over their multiple challenges and contentions of trial court error