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Gonzalez v. Miller
Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Election and Political Law
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Ellington
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Jeffrey Ronald Baxter, Tyler D. Fabbri, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
For defendant: Kevin Edward Epps, Tyler Marquis Gaines, (Epps Holloway Deloach & Hoipkemier LLC), Watkinsville, Barry L. Fitzpatrick, (Law Office of Lane Fitzpatrick), Danielsville, for appellee; Gene Patrick Hamilton, (America First Legal Foundation), Washington, Christopher Earnest Mills, (Spero Law LLC), Charleston, for Amicus Appellee; Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Gautreaux Law LLC), Macon, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant.
Case number: S24A0617

Court affirms applicability of Open Records Act (ORA) to District Attorneys and denies immunity claims from DA who sought to dismiss an ORA enforcement action

Steel v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Legal Operations
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Robert Alexander "Alex" Susor, (The Law Offices of Alex Susor, P.C.), Decatur, Colette Resnik Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
For defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Ural D.L. Glanville, (Fulton County Superior Court), Atlanta, for other party; Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, Edward Donald Tolley, (Cook & Tolley LLP), Athens, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
Case number: S24A1245

Court reverses contempt finding against attorney for failure to disclose source of information, citing due process violations and finding that the trial court judge should have recused himself

In the Matter of John Weimann Oxendine.
Publication Date: 2024-11-22
Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Per Curiam
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
For defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee; Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
Case number: S25Y0045

Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of his law license following his felony conviction for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, effectively disbarring him

Campbell v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Warren
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
For defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Gabriel Adam Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
Case number: S24A0578

Court affirms multiple gang-related murder convictions despite errors in admissible evidence, deeming the errors to be harmless in view of overwhelming evidence of the defendants' guilt

Baker v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Pinson
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
For defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Faith Donnell Worley, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
Case number: S24A0560

Court affirms malice murder and firearm convictions over defendants' contentions regarding jury instructions, sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance, and cumulative error

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Georgia Department of Public Safety v. Justice
Publication Date: 2024-11-21
Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Ellington
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Katherine Powers Stoff, Bryan Keith Webb, Courtney C. Poole, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
For defendant: Jeffrey Francis Peil, (Huggins Peil, LLC), Evans, McCracken Poston, (Law Offices of McCracken Poston), Ringgold, John Joseph Czura, (John J. Czura PC), Evans, John P. Batson, (The Law Office of John P. Batson), Augusta, for appellee.
Case number: S23G1170

Court affirms that sovereign immunity was not waived in state trooper's breach-of-contract claims, but vacates a conclusion that Fair Labor Standards Act were part of an employment contract

Mohar v. Leguizamo et al.
Publication Date: 2024-11-20
Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Personal Injury
Industry: Health Care
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Ralph Villani, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
For defendant: Jacob Raehn, Sandra Cianflone, (MMPO Defense), Atlanta, for appellee; Lance Gowens, (The Gowens Law Firm, LLC), Cumming, for other party.
Case number: A24A1135

Court affirms dismissal of medical malpractice lawsuit due to statute of limitation, which began when plaintiff first manifested symptoms, and rejects plaintiff's continuous treatment argument

Moore v. White, Warden et al.
Publication Date: 2024-11-20
Practice Area: Criminal Law
Industry:
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Warren
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Robert Julian Daniel, (Law Offices of Robert DanieL, LLC), Atlanta, Rodney Alan Williams, (Law Office of Rodney A. Williams), Decatur, for appellant.
For defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Whitener Hamilton, (Plunkett, Hamilton, Manton & Graves, LLP), Augusta, for appellee.
Case number: S22A1326

Court reverses denial of a habeas petition, finding that petitioner had received ineffective assistance of counsel, and vacates burglary conviction and remands for appropriate relief

Titshaw et al. v. Geer et al.
Publication Date: 2024-11-20
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice
Industry: Legal Services
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Colvin
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Michael Ryan Peacock, (Hotchkiss Hoffecker Peacock, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
For defendant: Donald Barclay Brown, Austin Atkinson, Sarah Meghan Pittman, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Christine Lupo Mast, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Linley Jones, Angela Marie Forstie, (Linley Jones, PC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
Case number: S23G1124

Court clarifies application of statute of limitations for breach-of-contract claims in a legal malpractice dispute

Morris et al. v. Sumter County et al.
Publication Date: 2024-11-19
Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Watkins
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: Ralph Simpson, (Simpson Mediation Service), Warner Robins, for appellant.
For defendant: Raleigh Rollins, (Alexander & Vann LLP), Thomasville, Hayden Hooks, (Attorney at Law), Americus, for appellee.
Case number: A22A0826

On remand, the court reversed its prior opinion, found implied acceptance of a duty by Sumter County to repair and maintain subdivision roads, and reversed a trial court ruling to the contrary