Davis v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-05-30Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Presiding Judge DillardAttorneys:For plaintiff: Steven Miller, (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for appellant.For defendant: Anna Johnson, Samir Patel, Erle Newton, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.Case number: A24A0533
Court affirms conviction in child molestation case and rejects defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; over failure to object to jury's consideration of notes written by defendant
Platt v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-05-29Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Supreme CourtJudge: Presiding Justice PetersonAttorneys:For plaintiff: Amy Lee Copeland, (Rouse & Copeland, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.For defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Billy Joe Nelson, Jr, Melissa Leigh Poole, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Hinesville, for appellee.Case number: S24A0399
Court affirms murder conviction over defendant's contentions of prosecutorial misconduct and trial court failure to take curative actions
Hewett v. The State
Publication Date: 2024-05-23Practice Area:Criminal Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Presiding Judge DillardAttorneys:For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.For defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, for appellee.Case number: A24A0157
Court affirms child molestation and sexual battery convictions over defendant's challenges regarding sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and other errors
Hartman v. De Caro
Publication Date: 2024-05-23Practice Area:Civil Appeals |
Family Law
Industry:Court: Georgia Court of AppealsJudge: Chief Judge MercierAttorneys:For plaintiff: William Davis Hewitt, (The Appellate Division - Georgia Public Defender Council), Savannah, for appellant.For defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, William Patrick Doupé, Ali Pauline Ritch, (Toombs Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Thompson, for appellee.Case number: A24A0323
Court dismisses appeal to an order granting temporary custody to one partner, finding that it lacked jurisdiction over the appeal, which the other partner had filed directly
Marshall v. ATN Care Franchising, LLC
Publication Date: 2024-05-20Practice Area:Civil Procedure
Industry:Court: Supreme Court, New YorkJudge: Justice Verna L. SaundersAttorneys:For plaintiff: For defendant: Case number: 654958/2021
Actual Notice of Motion by Party Enough to Establish Service, Court Rules
Mizzero v. Albany Med Health System
Publication Date: 2024-05-20Practice Area:Wage and Hour Litigation
Industry:Health Care
Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, U.S. - NDNYJudge: District Judge Glenn T. SuddabyAttorneys:For plaintiff: Counsel for Plaintiff: Andrew Dunlap, Esq., Michael Josephson, Esq., William M. Hogg, Esq., of counsel, Josephson Dunlap, LLP, Houston, TX.For defendant: Co-counsel for Plaintiff: William Clifton Alexander, Esq., Austin W. Anderson, Esq., Carter T. Hastings, Esq., of counsel, Anderson Alexander, PLLC, Corpus Christi, TX.
Local Counsel for Plaintiff: David I. Iversen, Esq., of counsel, E. Stewart Jones Hacker Murphy, LLP, Troy, NY.
Counsel for Defendants: Michael D. Billok, Esq., of counsel, Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Eric M. O'Bryan, Esq., of counsel, Albany, NY.Case number: 1:23-CV-0538
Overtime Pay Claim Is Stated Only as to Uncompensated Work During Meal Breaks
In re: Cognizant Tech. Solutions Corp. Derivative Litig.
Publication Date: 2024-05-20Practice Area:Corporate Entities
Industry:Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitJudge: Justice FuentesAttorneys:For plaintiff: William B. Federman (Federman & Sherwood); Matthew F. Gately, Peter S. Pearlman (Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf); Benny C. Goodman, III, Steven Hubachek, Erik W. Luedeke (Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd); James M. Ficaro, Robert B. Weiser (The Weiser Law Firm); Gary S. Graifman (Kantrowitz Goldhamer & Graifman); Britt W. Sowle (Cavanagh & O’Hara); Melissa A. Fortunato (Bragar Eagel & Squire); Ligaya T. Hernandez, Michael J. Hynes (Hynes Keller & Hernandez); James S. Notis (Gardy & Notis); Jennifer Sarnelli (Gardy & Notis)For defendant: Charles A. Brown, Daniel P. Roeser (Goodwin Procter); William Evans (Goodwin Procter); William M. Jay (Goodwin Procter); Sarah D. Efronson, Rajeev Muttreja (Jones Day); Christopher J. Keale, James H. Keale (Tanenbaum Keale); Theodore V. Wells, Jr., Andrew J. Ehrlich, Alison R. Benedon (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison); Matthew D. Stachel (Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison)Case number: 22-3027
Under a De Novo Standard of Appellate Review, District Court Correctly Concluded Shareholders Failed to Demonstrate Lack of Independence of a Majority of the Board
"Now, they don't have to worry about catching a (constitutional) challenge every time they put a rule out there," attorney Dennis Merkley said of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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