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  • Woods et al. v. Barnes et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-21
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Education Law
    Industry: Education
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Keith Webb, Russell David Willard, Susan Rose Haynes, Christopher M. Carr, Kristen Lea Settlemire, Stephen John Petrany, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig Lewis Goodmark, (Goodmark Law Firm, LLC), Decatur, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr., (Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC), Atlanta, Philip A. Hostak, (National Education Association), Washington, for appellee; Brian C. Smith, Phillip L. Hartley, (Pereira, Kirby, Kinsinger & Nguyen, LLP), Gainesville, Lawrenceville, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S23A0821

    Court reverses lower court's decision on the constitutionality of a charter school's waiver from Fair Dismissal Act compliance

  • Reyes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee, Stephen Elijah Brown-Bennett, (Taylor Lee & Associates, LLC), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, C. Rebecca Fogal, George R. Christian, (Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1135

    Court affirms the constitutionality of considering a defendant's immigration status in sentencing in a case involving charges of vehicular homicide by an undocumented immigrant

  • Andreana Williams, Conservator v. Regency Hospital Company, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-22
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Hill, (Mayo Hill), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Norton Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Sharonda Boyce Barnes, (Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0312

    Concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a direct appeal, Supreme Court transfers medical malpractice case involving constitutionality of non-tolling statute for mentally incompetent plaintiffs

  • Lovell v. Raffensperger et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristen Lovell, Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas L. Cathey, Fort Gordon, Bryan Keith Webb, Russell David Willard, Elizabeth Wilson Vaughan, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William James Keogh, III, Jordan Bell, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0887

    Court affirms dismissal of actions against State and county election officials for non-compliance with sovereign immunity waiver requirements under the Georgia Constitution

  • The State v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2024-02-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, Paula Khristian Smith, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Reuven Melnick, (Jonathan R. Melnick PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0842

    Court reverses trial court's suppression of statement taken while defendant was hospitalized and medicated, affirming the need for coercive police conduct for involuntariness

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  • Gates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Foster Kramer, (Kramer & Pine), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Stuart H. Hunter Patray, Daphne Jarriel Totten, Keith A. McIntyre, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1158

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion to suppress evidence of his medical records that were seized pursuant to an ex parte court order, stating that the seizure was a privacy violation

  • Jenkins v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-07
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lawrence Persse, (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Charles Keith Higgins, Benjamin E. Gephardt, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0534

    Defendant's Unequivocal Statement During Booking Demanding Presence of Lawyer Was Valid Invocation of Miranda Rights

  • Regan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-06
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon Clark Hall, Jr., (Law Office of Gordon Hall, LLC), La Fayette Melinda Faye Johnson, (Johnson Law Firm), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Bailey Rachel Simkoff, Randal Matthew McGinley, (Alcovy Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0686

    Defendant's Sentence For Felony Child Molestation Violated Federal Equal Protection Rights

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Walter Donnelly, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0846

    Trial Counsel Did Not Render Constitutionally Ineffective Assistance by Failing to Object to Multiple Portions of Lead Detective Testimony

  • Lambert et al. v. DMRT, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Buckley, Nicolas Bohorquez, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Begner, Eric Coffelt, (Begner & Begner, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0955

    Nightclub Owner's Action Against Neighbors Who Complained of Noise Was Meritless Anti-SLAPP Suit