Georgia Guardian Law

United States of America v. Keyshawn Omar Cooper

Augusta, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with production of child pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. 2251, which provides: (a) Any person who employs, uses, persuades, induces, entices, or coerces any minor to engage in, or who has a minor assist any other person to engage in, or who transports any minor in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce,... More...

$0 (09-11-2023 - GA)

United States of America v. Rodney Bryant

Savannah, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production and possession of child pornography. Rodney Bryant, 38, of Savannah, was pleaded guilty to Production of Child Pornography, and Possession of Child Pornography, said David H. Estes, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia. U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood also ordered Bryant to pay... More...

$0 (12-25-2022 - GA)

West, et al. v. Bowser, et al.

Atlanta, Georgia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiffs who sued Defendant on wrongful death theories. In West v. Bowser, 360 Ga.App. 103 (860 S.E.2d 904) (2021), we reversed the trial court's order compelling arbitration in a wrongful death action filed by Jobe West, individually and as executor of the estate of Ronald West, and Kelly Blottenberger as the surviving children o... More...

$0 (08-19-2022 - GA)

Amanda Haught v. Hart County School District

Athens, Georgia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a civil rights violation theory personally and as natural guardian of her minor children CS and RS. The claims made and defenses asserted are not available for this case. This case was initially filed in the Superior Court of Hart County, 20HV00185, and was removed to federal court by the Defendan... More...

$1 (11-18-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Deangelo Lenard Johnson

<center><h2><center> Atlanta, GA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with a domestic violence by strangulation and assault charge. </h2></center> In 1996, Congress prohibited anyone convicted of a misdemeanor that involved domestic violence from possessing a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. Â§ 922(g)(9). Senator Frank Lautenberg, who sponsore... More...

$0 (11-21-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Michael Peyton Gunn

Evans, Georgia criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant charged with production of child by a parent or guardian. Michael Peyton Gunn, 36, of Evans, Ga., was charged with Production of Child Pornography by a Parent or Guardian, Sex Trafficking Conspiracy, Sex Trafficking of a Child, Coercion and Enticement of a Child to Engage in Sexual ActivityPossession of Child Pornography, and ... More...

$0 (11-18-2021 - GA)

SAMANTHA SMITH, individually, ANN HERRERA, the Court Appointed Personal Administrator as administrator of the estate of Robert Steven Smith, MICAH SMITH, the Court Appointed Personal Administrator as administrator of the estate of Sydney Smith, MICAH SMITH, individually v. United States of America

<center><h2><center> Atlanta, Georgia - Criminal defense lawyer represented Plaintiffs-Appellants with suing the United States over deaths of family members. </h2></center> Just a few days after Thanksgiving in 2016, Steve Smith was driving with his 21-year-old daughter Sydney while under the influence of alcohol. Shortly after midnight, their ca... More...

$0 (10-10-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Matthew Dixon

Macon, Georgia felony firearm possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Matthew Dixon, age 33, of Milledgeville, Georgia, who was charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was arrested while attempting to break into vehicles in downtown Macon. "I applaud law enforcement for working 24/7 in an effort to keep Macon safe. Repeat offend... More...

$0 (03-10-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. Jamie Dean Fountain

Valdosta, GA - Felony firearm possession charge criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Jamie Dean Fourtain, of Valdosta, who was charged with one count possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. On July 16, 2019, Clinch County, Georgia, Sheriff's deputies approached Fountain's car, which was parked in Homerville, Georgia. At the time, there was an active warrant for Fountain's ... More...

$0 (02-14-2021 - GA)

United States of America v. David Tang

Savannah, Georgie criminal defense production of child porn lawyer David Tang, 34, of Port Wentworth, was charged with Production of Child Pornography “The most vulnerable members of our community are safer today because David Tang and his co-defendants are locked away,” said U.S. Attorney Christine. “We’re grateful for those who reported these horrific crimes, and for th... More...

$0 (12-28-2020 - GA)

United States of America v. Keon Hendley

Macon, Georgia felony firearm criminal defense lawyer represent Defendant, Keon Hendley, who was charged with illegal firearms trafficking. ATF agents, working with a confidential informant (CI), negotiated the purchase of large amounts of firearms from Hendley, a convicted felon, on four separate occasions in 2019 at various locations across Macon. In total, 23 firearms were obtained fro... More...

$0 (12-11-2020 - GA)

United States of America v. LeKanderick Pitts

<center> <img width="400" src="https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/Macon_new.jpg"> </center> Macon, GA - The United States of America charged LeKanderick Pitts, age 39, with felony possession of a firearm. Law enforcement with the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office and Georgia Department of Community Supervision conducted a parole search on September 28, 2018, of the motel room wh... More...

$0 (07-31-2020 - GA)

United States of America v. John Willie Clarke

Athens, GA - The United States of America charged John Willie Clarke, age 34, with being a convicted felon in possession of a stolen firearm. Defendant, of Athens, pleaded guilty to one count possession of a stolen firearm before U.S. District Judge C. Ashley Royal on Wednesday, July 8. Clarke faces a maximum sentence of ten years imprisonment, a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years s... More...

$0 (07-21-2020 - GA)

United States of America v. Javarius Mallory

Albany, GA - The United States of America charged Javarius Mallory with Possession of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence. Javarius Mallory, 26, of Albany, was sentenced during a video conference this afternoon to a total of 240 months in prison, 120 months per count, after pleading guilty in January to two counts of possession and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence. His c... More...

$0 (06-11-2020 - GA)

United States of America v. Charles "Charlie" Peeler and Deshae Amondai Floyd

Macon, GA - The United States of America charged Charles "Charlie" Peeler and Deshae Amondai Floyd with conspiracy to receive and possess stolen firearms. Two armed probationers caught breaking into multiple vehicles in a Macon residential area admitted to their crimes and will be sentenced on April 1, 2020, announced Charles “Charlie” Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District... More...

$0 (01-21-2020 - GA)

Vanessa Anderson v. Wilco Life Insurance Company

In this interlocutory appeal, defendant Wilco Life Insurance Company (“Wilco”) appeals from the district court’s order granting plaintiff Vanessa Anderson’s motion to remand this putative class action back to a Georgia state court. In this case, Anderson, on behalf of herself and all those similarly situated, sued her former insurer, Wilco. Anderson alleges that Wilco improperly raised the... More...

$0 (12-02-2019 - GA)

Theresa Spencer v. Billy Joe Dempsey

Theresa Spencer, Individually and as Natural Guardian of AS, a Minor Child, sued Billy Joe Dempsey on an auto negligence theory claiming that she and her child were injured in a car truck wreck caused by Dempsey. Plaintiff also sued MSJ Trucking, Inc. on a respondeat superior theory and its insurance carrier, National Specialty Insurance Company, claiming that Dempsey was acting on the trucking ... More...

$1 (03-06-2012 - GA)

Lynda Harris v. Robert Snelgrove

Lynda Harris, formerly known as Lynda H. Snelgrove ("Harrisâ€) was granted an appeal from the superior court's denial of her motion for new trial, as amended, following its entry of a final judgment and decree of divorce and order of custody ("decreeâ€). The decree dissolved her seven-year marriage to Robert Snelgrove ("Snelgroveâ€), divided the marital property, provided for child ... More...

$0 (11-21-2011 - GA)

Ruby Mann v. Taser International, Inc.

This action arises out of the death of Melinda Neal Fairbanks following her arrest by deputies of the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office. The administrators of Fairbanks' estate brought a 42 U.S.C. Â§1983 claim along with various state law claims against the deputies in their official and individual capacities. The administrators also asserted a state law wrongful death claim against Taser Intern... More...

$0 (12-03-2009 - GA)

Andrew L. Smith v. Powers Heating and Cooling

Andrew L. Smith, guardian of Buford Ray Bilbo, age 87, sued Powers Heating and Cooling, et al. on a negligence theory claiming that two employees of Defendant left a gas valve uncapped after inspecting his home. A subsequent explosion on May 3, 2004 killed Martha Bilbo and injured Ray Bilbo. The defenses asserted by defendants are not available.... More...

$670000 (11-10-2009 - GA)

<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200313208.pdf" target="_new">Mary Margaret Wright, Administrator of the Estate of Kevin Francis Wright, Jr., Jullian Alyce Wright b.a.t Mary Margaret Wright v. CSX Transportation, Inc.</a>

On February 3, 2001 in Vienna, Georgia, a locomotive operated by CSX Transportation, Inc. collided with an automobile carrying a family of four, with predictably tragic results. Three of the family members were killed and the fourth, a young girl, was seriously injured. A relative of the family filed two wrongful death lawsuits against the railroad in her capacity as administrator of the ... More...

$0 (07-08-2004 - GA)

<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/nov2002/01-15182.opn.html" target="_new">Donna Ellis v. C.R. Bard, Inc.</a>

In this diversity case under Georgia law, plaintiff Donna Ellis alleges that the defendant manufacturers, C.R. Bard, Inc. ("Bard") and Baxter Healthcare Corporation ("Baxter"), are liable for her mother's brain damage because of their defective labeling and specifically their failure to warn adequately of the danger of having a person other than a doctor or patient activate the morphine pump th... More...

$0 (11-12-2002 - GA)

<a href="http://www2.state.ga.us/Courts/Supreme/s01a0625.pdf" traget="_New">Dye, et al. v. Wallace, et al.</a>

Angie Dye, individually and as next friend and legal guardian of Lauren Licklider, a minor, filed suit against appellees, reporter Jim Wallace and his employer, McDuffie County Newspapers, Inc., which operates a weekly newspaper in Thomson. Dye sought damages for invasion of privacy by unlawful publication arising out of an article written by Wallace and printed in the newspaper reporting the st... More...

$0 (10-10-2001 - GA)

Gnann v. Roberson

Legal Malpractice, Conversion, Fraud, Civil RICO - Attorneys David Roberson and John Woodall represented Julia Mae Shiggs, via her court-appointed guardian, in a medical malpractice action against Dr. Speir N. Ramsey at Memorial Medical Center after Shiggs became permanently incapacitated, lapsed into a coma, and died following a caesarean section. As administrator of Shiggs' estate, J. Hamrick G... More...

$1362500 (02-26-1998 - GA)

Thomas v. Department of Transportation

Governmental tort claim - Karen Thomas was killed in an automobile accident at a Department of Transportation road construction site. The accidnet occurred when another car driven by 16-year-old Michael Oxenrider swered into Thomas' lane and hit Thomas' vehicle head-on. Alma Yvonne Thomas, as guardian of Thomas' children, sued the DOT and others, contending that the accident was caused by the da... More...

$0 (05-22-1998 - GA)