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  • In the Matter of L. Elizabeth Lane.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-09
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, William Dallas NeSmith, Andreea N. Morrison, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel Gaulden Alderman, III, (Alderman & Hutcherson, LLC), Macon, for appellee; Patrick E. Longan, (Walter F. George School of Law), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1213

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary discipline and surrender of her law license, effectively barring her from the practice of law in Georgia

  • In the Matter of Nevada Michael Tuggle

    Publication Date: 2024-10-09
    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, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James E. Spence, Jr., (Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Kevin Bernard Hicks, (The Law Offices of Kevin B. Hicks & Associates LLC), Macon, John Ryd Bush Long, (John R. B. Long, P.C.), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1018

    Court disbars Georgia attorney due to multiple disciplinary actions and violations of Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Pope v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jomekia Dechelle Pope, (Hays State Prison), Trion, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Anita Reynolds Howard, (Macon Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Macon,for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0985

    Court affirms denial of defendant's pro se motion to withdraw his guilty plea to malice murder because the motion was untimely filed

  • Wyatt v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Konrad Gerhard Waldemar Ziegler, (Lee & Ziegler, LLP), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, Jason Matthew Rea, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0487

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to admission of evidence of his prior attack against his ex-wife

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  • The State v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2024-10-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Cody Jeremiah Jung, (Fulton County Public Defender’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0623

    Court reverses a decision transferring a case to juvenile court, holding that superior court retained jurisdiction where defendant was reindicted beyond the 180-day statutory window

  • Vest Monroe, LLC et al. v. John Doe

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, David V. Hayes, Kimberly Logue Woodland, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy Robinson Kelly, IV, Caitlin Derst, (Kelly & Kelly LLP), Savannah, Joseph Alan White, Scott Lester Bonder, (Fried Bonder White), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1224

    Court reverses appellate court and affirms trial court's denial of class certification in a lawsuit against a medical service provider due to lack of typicality among class member claims

  • North American Senior Benefits, LLC v. Wimmer et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thaddeus David Wilson, Valentin Leppert, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey David Mokotoff, Leslie B. Hartnett, Laura T. Yellig, (Ford & Harrison, LLP), Atlanta, Justin Beecher Connell, (Elarbee Thompson Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Meagan Myers Hanson, Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, John Phillip Jett, Kevin Bradford Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G1146

    Georgia Supreme Court clarifies that restrictive covenants may be enforceable without express geographic terms if they are reasonable in time, area, and scope

  • McElrath v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-09-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman Maddox Kilgore, Carlos Javier Rodriguez, (Kilgore & Rodgriguez, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Paula Khristian Smith, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, Paul Richard Draper, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Linda Jeanne Dunikoski, Flynn Duncan Broady, Jr., Stephanie Adrean Green, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0605

    Court vacates a portion of a prior opinion that had denied a plea in bar based on Constitutional Double Jeopardy and reverses that denial, thus preventing retrial on a malice murder charge

  • In the Matter of Anthony O. Van Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-09-11
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lori Epps Anderson, Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael John Puglise, (Puglise Law Firm PC), Snellville, for appellee; Samuel Jeffrey Rusbridge, (Dyer Rusbridge Argo, P.C.), Canton, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y1070

    Court accepts Georgia attorney's voluntary petition for surrender of his law license in view of attorney's separate serious violations of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct