• Taylor v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Mark Samuel Lindemann, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, David K. Getachew-Smith, Sr., Lyndsey Hurst Rudder, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A1092

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's contentions that the evidence was all circumstantial and insufficient to support a conviction

  • McAlister v. Clifton

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Penelope W. Rumsey, (Rumsey & Ramsey), Atlanta, Linda T. F. Day, (The Day Firm, LLC), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise Danielle VanLanduyt, (Vanlanduyt Greer, LLC), Decatur, Tahira Plunkett Piraino, (Piriano Law), Tucker, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0144

    Appeal From Custody Order Became Moot After Child Reached Age of 18

  • In the Matter of Jason Lee Van Dyke.

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Lee Van Dyke, (The Marsala Law Group), Denton, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22Y0046

    Additional Factual Findings Necessary Prior to Ruling on Attorney's Petition for Voluntary Discipline

  • Saxton v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Leroy Johnson, (Office of ALJ, PC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Mark Preston Jones, Frederick Lewis, (Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0059

    Any Error in Allowing Prosecution Witness to Testify Regarding Direction of Bullet Travel Was Harmless

  • Grullon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Elijah Brown-Bennett, (Taylor Lee & Associates, LLC), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Norris S. Lewis, Jr., Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Michael Wayne Tarleton, (Tarleton Law, LLC), Atlanta, Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for Neutral Amicus.

    Case Number: S21G0485

    Defendant Did Not Affirmatively Waive Claim That Trial Court Gave Erroneous Instruction on Deliberate Ignorance

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  • Bell v. Hargrove

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bennett Davis Bryan, Laura Karen Johnson, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Omari J. Crawford, (Dekalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee; Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S21G0459

    Court reverses order that affirmed denial of an applicant's weapons carry license, finding that the statute did not give the probate judge authority to deny the application

  • Adventure Motorsports Reinsurance, Ltd. et al. v. Interstate National Dealer Services

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Thomas Holm, (Withrow McQuade & Olsen LLP), Atlanta, Eric J Morrison, (Lipsey, Morrison, Waller & Lipsey, P.C.), Knoxville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenton Jones Coppage, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey L. Kingsley, (Goldberg Segalla LLP), Buffalo, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21G0008

    Court reverses and vacates aspects of an appellate court's reversal of a trial court's confirmation of an arbitration award in favor of a vehicle dealer and reinsurer

  • RCC Wesley Chapel Crossing, LLC et al. v. Forrest Allen et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-27
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter J. Bibbins, Brittanie Danielle Browning, John E. Hall, Jr., (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Ryan Matthew Ingram, David Patrick Conley, Marie Wilcox, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele, LLP), Marietta, Kenan G. Loomis, (Cozen O'Connor), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Mitchell Lowrey, Joshua Ferber Thorpe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Quinn Wetherington, Sr., Robert Neil Friedman, (Wetherington Law Firm), Atlanta for appellee; Andrew Alan Pinson, (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Colquitt Rogers, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, Kimberly D. Stevens, Willie C. Ellis, Jr., LeRyan Paige Lambert, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S21G0029

    Court vacates and remands a class action case that addressed a private property owner's right to immobilize vehicles improperly parked on the owner's property

  • Murray v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Richard Murray, (Baldwin State Prison), Hardwick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A1098

    Defendant's Disrespect For Trial Court And Judicial Process Did Not Excuse Court's Failure to Consider New Trial Motion on Merits

  • In the Matter of Megan Kate Andrews.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Megan Kate Andrews, Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Allen Earles, Rebecca S. Mick, Kevin Charles Wilson, (Georgia Office of Bar Admissions), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21Z1222

    Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Consider Whether Board of Bar Examiners Erred in Denying Application for Admission to State Bar on Motion Without Examination