Filter This View

  • Greene v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Kenneth Luttrell, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Eric Christopher Peters, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Dalia Racine, Aimee F. Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney’s Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0200

    Any Error In Admitting Evidence of Prior Assaults on Murder Defendant's Ex-Girlfriends Was Harmless

  • Efficiency Lodge, Inc. v. Neason, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-20
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Landlord Tenant Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles R. Bliss, Elizabeth Ann Guerrant, Lindsey Meredith Siegel, Rachel Miller Lazarus, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.), Decatur, Harold T. Daniel, Jr., (Harold Daniel Law LLC), Atlanta, David Alfred Webster, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Miriam Fisher Gutman, Jamie B.J. Rush, (Southern Poverty Law Center), Decatur, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0838

    Remand Necessary to Determine Whether Renters in Extended-Stay Motel Had Landlord-Tenant Relationship With Motel

  • In the Matter of Ian Zimmerman.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    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, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian Zimmerman, (Zimmerman Law Firm), Valdosta, for appellee; Quentin LaMont Marlin, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: S23Y0492

    Court orders disbarment of attorney who had violated numerous rules of professional conduct

  • In the Matter of David Roberson.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Laverne Copeland, (Kimberly L. Copeland & Associates, LLC), Jesup, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Allen Earles, Rebecca S. Mick, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Jennifer Colangelo, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Z0402

    Court affirms disbarred attorney's petition for readmission, finding that the attorney had not been rehabilitated and was not fit to practice

  • In the Matter of Brian Walton Whiteside.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-27
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gene Chapman, (Gene Chapman LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0579

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary discipline and imposes a three-month suspension of his law license in response to his multiple rule violations

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    Lackawanna/Luzerne County Court Rules 2023

    Authors:

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • In the Matter of Craig S. Bonnell.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig S. Bonnell, (Craig S.Bonnell, Attorney at Law), Rincon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23Y0123

    Court rejects the State bar's petition for a public reprimand of an attorney because the record was unclear as to several matters involving the attorney's misconduct

  • Burley v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Joseph Kenneth Mulholland, Banks Thomas Smith, Sr., Moruf O. Oseni, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0322

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contention that the trial court erred by not instructing the jury on malice murder

  • Copeland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah Lorraine Leslie, (The Leslie Group, LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Aslean Zachary Eaglin, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0281

    Court affirms felony murder conviction and rejects defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and claims of self-defense

  • Florida Rock Industries, Inc. v. Clayton County Board of Commissioners et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, William Clay Massey, Shannon Nicole Vreeland, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amy Bryant Cowan, Dana Kristin Maine, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22C1102

    Court denies petition for certiorari filed by a mining company seeking review of the denial of two applications for conditional use permits.

  • Southern States Chemical, Inc. et al. v. Tampa Tank & Welding, Inc. f/k/a Tampa Tank Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-23
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Tucker Barr, Andrew Clay Stevens, Natalie Cascario, David Lee Hobson, Jeffrey Young Lewis, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, Edwin W. King, Jr., (Edwin W. King, Jr., P.C.), Savannah, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mike O’Neal Crawford, Swift S. Currie, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Cecily Joy McLeod, Kimberly Council Sheridan, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; LaTisha Dear Jackson, (DeKalb County Superior Court), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: S23A0273

    Court affirms dismissal of breach of warranty claims that were barred by the pre-amendment statute of repose