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  • 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

  • Remler v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-02-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura D. Hogue, Susan Dalton Raymond, (Hogue Griffin), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta; Timothy Patrick Dean, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1075

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence trial court jury instruction error, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Brixmor New Chastain Corners SC, LLC v. James

    Publication Date: 2024-01-16
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles R. Beans, (McLaughlin Law Firm), Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Sims Stein, (J. Stein Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0795

    Court of clarifies legal considerations and standards that should be applied to spoliation of evidence issues for purposes of assessing sanctions in premises liability actions

  • 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

  • Lee v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft, III, (Office of the Public Defender), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Frederick Lewis, Tina G. Stanford, Cynthia Dawn McDonald, Stacey Sherrard Jackson, (Chatahoochee Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1097

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes and rejects defendant's contentions of trial court's erroneous denial of motions for mistrial and ineffective assistance of counsel

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  • 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

  • Jones v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Van Thomas, II, (Andrew V. Thomas II, PC), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, James Linder Prine, Bradfield M. Shealy, Jessua Calhoun Hornsby, (Southern Judicial Circuit Office Of The District Attorney), Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0684

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and contentions of trial court error

  • Steele v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Clark, (Clarke & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0460

    Court affirms felony murder conviction over defendant's unsupported challenge to sufficiency of evidence, but vacates assault conviction that should have merged

  • Carter v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-06
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Raphael Carter, (Telfair State Prison), Helena, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Ashleigh Dene Headrick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0522

    Merger-Error Claims Did Not Support Untimely Motion to Withdraw Guilty Plea

  • 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