Cabrera-Zamarripa v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-06-17Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Presiding Judge BarnesAttorneys:For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.For defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.Case number: A24A0523
Court affirms convictions for armed robbery and related offenses, rejecting defendant's challenges to stipulations and jury instructions
Walmart Stores East, LP v. Leverette
Publication Date: 2024-06-10Practice Area:Personal Injury
Industry:Retail
Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Justice BrownAttorneys:For plaintiff: Robert Hill, (McLain & Merritt), Atlanta, Jack Reiter, Sydney Feldman, (Gray Robinson, P.A.), Miami, for appellant.For defendant: Welles Gilliland, (Nick Schnyder Law Firm), Marietta, Maxwell Thelen, Seth Lowry, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for appellee.Case number: A24A0115
Court affirms $1 million nominal damages award against Walmart in a premises liability and injury case, rejecting Walmart's arguments as to excessive damages and bias
Alexander v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-06-07Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Judge HodgesAttorneys:For plaintiff: Leslie Jones, (Leslie Spornberger Jones LLC), Athens, for appellant.For defendant: David White, Branden Pollett, (Northern Judicial Cicruit District Attorney’s Office), Hartwell, for appellee.Case number: A24A0596
Court affirms revocation of defendant's probation based on evidence of violations of drug-related changes but reverses as to gang-related and conspiracy charges due to lack of evidence
Cobb County v. Floam et al.
Publication Date: 2024-06-07Practice Area:Government
Industry:State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme CourtJudge: Presiding Justice PetersonAttorneys:For plaintiff: Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Lauren Smith Bruce, Elizabeth Ahern Monyak, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.For defendant: Ray Stallings Smith, III, (Smith & Liss, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Logan B. Winkles, Jonathan David Loegel, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Justin Thomas Golart, Zachary Mullinax, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Walter White, (Haynie, Litchfield,Crane & White, P.C.), Marietta, William A. Pinto, Jr., (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.Case number: S24A0599
Court reverses order granting declaratory relief to residents who challenged a county boundary redistricting, finding that they could not show a need for guidance for future conduct
Garrison v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-06-06Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Judge MarkleAttorneys:For plaintiff: Jad Johnson, Victor Aloisio, (Office of the Public Defender, Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit), Lafayette, for appellant.For defendant: Clayton Fuller, John Franklin, (Lookout Mountain Circuit District Attorney’s Office), LaFayette, for appellee.Case number: A24A0010
Court affirms convictions for drug possession and trafficking and rejected defendant's claims of improper exclusion of evidence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel
Crawford v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-06-05Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Presiding Judge DoyleAttorneys:For plaintiff: John Bradley, (Ocmulgee Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Milledgeville, for appellant.For defendant: Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorneys Office), Eatonton, for appellee.Case number: A24A0217
Court affirms child molestation convictions and rejects ineffective counsel claim over his trial counsel's decision not to strike and remove a juror for cause
SanMiguel v. Grimaldi
Publication Date: 2024-06-03Practice Area:Medical Malpractice
Industry:Health Care
Court: Appellate Division, First DepartmentJudge: Justice Julio Rodriguez IIIAttorneys:For plaintiff: For Respondents: Annette G. Hasapidis of counsel, Hasapidis Law Offices, South Salem.For defendant: For Meryl Y. Grimaldi, M.D., Appellant: Bhalinder L. Rikhye of counsel, Vigorito, Barker, Patterson, Nicholas & Porter, LLC, New York.
For St. Barnabas Hospital, Appellant: Samantha E. Quinn of counsel, Schiavetti, Corgan, DiEdwards, Weinberg & Nicholson, LLP, White Plains, and Rita F. Aronov of counsel, Garbarini & Scher, P.C., New York.Case number: 24515/13
Reliance on 'Sheppard-Mobley' to Bar Mother's Recovery for Emotional Harm Without Merit
"I think the odds are against getting the conviction reversed," said Richard Schoenstein, vice chair of Tarter, Krinsky & Drogin. "But there are genuine issues."
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Sarah Shekhter, a shareholder in Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek's Litigation Department, has been appointed to the Board of Directors at the newly formed San Diego Jewish Bar Association.
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"You could fashion an argument that the restrictions on speech generally are really geared toward protecting the trial or any interference with the trial, but the jurors' safety issue is one that would continue past them returning a verdict," opined one observer. Trump's defense team did not seek clarification of the orders following his conviction on Thursday.
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