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  • Roberts v. Cuthpert

    Publication Date: 2023-10-10
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, or appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Christopher Waymire, Terry Eugene Williams, (Williams & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A0631

    Court holds that a party can seek costs and fees from a judge who denied a weapons carry license, finding that the judge did not have a sovereign immunity defense to the claim

  • Bell v. Hargrove

    Publication Date: 2022-08-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bennett Bryan, Omari Crawford, (The DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1061

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

  • In re Francys Johnson

    Publication Date: 2022-08-03
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mawuli Davis, (The Davis Bozeman Law Firm PC), Decatur, S. Tate, Bo Coram, (Akin & Tate), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daphne Totten, (Assistant District Attorney Ogeechee Judicial Circuit), Statesboro, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0608

    Court reverses contempt ruling that the trial judge had issued against a lawyer in a felony murder case, finding that the lawyer was not given his due process rights

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Eric W. Norris.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-20
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, Courtney Mays Veal, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis T. Cathey, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, Blaine Alexander Norris, (Blaine A. Norris, PC), Athens, for appellee; Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court Of Fulton County), Atlanta, Jamala Sumaiya McFadden, Solicitor, (The Employment Law Solution: McFadden Davis, LLC), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S21Z0916

    Court recommends a public reprimand against a Judge who exhibited deliberate and premediated intemperate conduct after being criticized by a bail bondsman

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Jadawnya Baker.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-23
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald J. Freeman, Sr., (Johnson & Freeman, LLC), Union City, Janise L. Miller, Atlanta, Richard L. Robbins, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Ronnie K. Batchelor, (Gwinnett Co. Justice & Administration), Lawrenceville, for other party.
    Case Number: S20Z1070

    Public Reprimand of Judge Appropriate Discipline for Periodically Dismissing Cases Without Legal Authority

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  • Floyd v. Stone

    Publication Date: 2022-01-05
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel Aaron Emas, Joseph Thomas Rhodes, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1123

    Court affirms denial of claimants motion for permission to file an information in the nature of quo warranto to remove a judge from office

  • 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

  • Georgiacarry.Org. Inc. et al. v. Bordeaux, Jr. et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for Appellant.
    for defendant: Jennifer Davenport, (Chatham County Attorney's Office), Savannah, R. Hart, (Hart & Associates Law Firm LLC), Savannah, for Appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0833

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part an organization's complaint for declaratory relief against a judge over weapons carry permits

  • Hill v. Hill

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Family Law | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Hill, Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garnett Harrison, (Garnett Harrison P.C.), Kingsland, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A0285

    Court affirms denial of litigant's motion to recuse an entire court from presiding over his ex-wife's contempt action in a child support payment matter

  • Inquiry Concerning Judge Robert M. Crawford.

    Publication Date: 2020-12-21
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Prescott Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy E. Barnes, John Ross Bartholomew, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Virgil L. Brown, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, James Gabriel Banks, (The Weathington Firm), Atlanta, Robert Charles Iverson McBurney, (Superior Court of Fulton County), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18Z1636

    Court dismisses action for judicial sanctions and declines to impose lifetime ban on former Judge who allegedly violated State Judicial Rules of Conduct