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  • The State v. Arroyo

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine L. Thompson, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Beth Shubow, Steven Eric Phillips, (Office of the Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0593

    State Could Not Appeal Trial Court's Grant of Motion to Suppress Issued After Jury Was Impaneled

  • Rutland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chevene B. King, Jr., (C. B. King & Associates), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Laura Anderson Wood, Richard Lowery Perryman, Chase Landon Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0916

    Convictions For Felony Murder and First Degree Vehicle Homicide Were Not Mutually Exclusive

  • Wilson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Howard, (The Howard Law Firm, P.C.), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Lenny I. Krick, Sherry Boston, Joshua Mark Geller, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0885

    Conspiracy to Purchase Marijuana Was Predicate Felony That Proximately Caused Victim's Death

  • Camden County v. Sweatt, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-01
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Myers, (John S. Myers PC), Woodbine, William Bradley Carver, Sr., Russell A. Britt, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana F. Braun, Kimberly Cofer Butler, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for appellee; G. Joseph Scheuer, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Clare Rivka Norins, (First Amendment Clinic), Athens, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0837

    County's Electorate Had Constitutional Authority to Petition For Repeal of County Resolutions For Land Purchase

  • Cobb County v. Mable Oak Development, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Blair, Laura Murphree, Hugh Rowling, Lauren Bruce, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Hylton Dupree, (Dupree & Kimbrough, LLP), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1658

    Court dismisses appeal as moot because appellant performed acts required by an injunction and failed to seek or procure a supersedeas

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  • Reid v. Samsung SDI Co., Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Law Firm Client Relationships | Products Liability
    Industry: Electronics
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Min Koo, (Infinity Trial Group, P.C.), Atlanta, Pete Werdesheim, (Werdesheim Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Mast, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Thompson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Eric Bumgartner, (Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter Strickland & Watkins, LLP), Brunswick, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A1728

    Court affirms disqualification of plaintiff's attorney in a product liability case where she had previously worked for the defendant's liability insurer on similar matters

  • The State v. Newberry

    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelly Weathers, John Fitzner, (Middle Judicial Circuit - District Attorney), Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Tramel, (Attorney at Law), Lilburn, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1467

    Court reverses dismissal of charges, finding that missing video footage of the charged crime was not exculpatory and defendant's due process rights were not violated

  • Kim v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-02-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant, John Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruth Pawlak, Fani Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1345

    Court affirms convictions for rape and other crimes over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • United Parcel Service of America, Inc. et al. v. Whitlock et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-27
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis Cathey, Matthew Cathey, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, for appellee; Denise Hoying, Peter Law, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, John McKinley, Sean Boyd, (Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    for defendant: Jonathan Friedman, Philip O’Neill, Gary Toman, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    Case Number: A22A1231

    Court affirms order applying South Carolina law to wrongful death and punitive damages claims and vacates and remands an order that addressed spoliation of evidence

  • BCG Operations, LLC v. Town of Homer et al.; and vice versa

    Publication Date: 2023-02-27
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Reeves, Jaletta Smith, (Andersen Tate & Carr, P.C.), Duluth, Matthew Smith, Daniel Dupree, (Smith Gilliam Williams & Miles PA), Gainesville, Patrick Testa, (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Johannes Kingma, Daniel Millman, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, R. Syfan, (Hulsey, Oliver and Mahar, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1183

    Court affirms denial of motion for summary judgment on damages where petitioner had already been awarded a writ of mandamus, and dismisses cross-appeal as moot