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J. Brown dismisses an injunctive relief and declaratory judgment action brought by John Barrow, a candidate for Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, against members of the Special Committee on Judicial Election Campaign Intervention. The candidate sought to block the committee from investigating statements he made during his campaign related to his belief that the Georgia Constitution includes a right to privacy that protects abortion rights. The candidate lacks standing to bring his claims because he failed to show he faces any threat of injury from a potential statement by the commission. The candidate already disclosed the charges against him and has not shown that the commission's actions or threatened actions chilled his exercise of his First Amendment rights.
Court: USDC Northern District of Georgia, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 16, 2024, Case #: 1:24cv1975, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, Elections, Injunction
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly denied a medical provider's peremptory exceptions of no right of action and prescription related to the deceased patient's father's survival and wrongful death claims stemming from medical malpractice. The father is the proper party to assert survival and wrongful death claims because the record shows that the decedent and the mother of his alleged son were not married at the time of the son's birth. Therefore, the alleged son was not entitled to the presumption that he was the decedent's biological child and was required to take affirmative steps to establish paternity within one year of the decedent's death. Further, the father's filing of the complaint with the medical review panel less than a year after the decedent’s death interrupted prescription as to the filing of those claims with the district court. The father then filed his petition for damages within 90 days of the issuance of the medical review panel opinion.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 13, 2024, Case #: 2024-C-0207, Categories: Civil Procedure, Wrongful Death, Medical Malpractice
J. Brown finds that the trial court improperly granted defendant's motion to suppress evidence of a breath sample produced during his third breath test which led to his DUI and failure to maintain lane charges. Although defendant gave three breath samples during state-administered breath tests, only two were adequate. The statute allowed the state to request the third test and the two samples are therefore admissible. Reversed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 13, 2024, Case #: A24A0705, Categories: Dui
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly denied Walmart's motion for a new trial after a jury found in favor of the shopper in a negligence action and awarded her $1 million in nominal damages. The shopper suffered injuries when two Walmart employees ran into her with a pallet jack. The damages award is not excessive. The jury awarded the shopper less than one-fifth of the damages she requested. The cross-examination of Walmart's expert neurologist by the shopper's attorney about a prior instance where the expert examined an individual who had been shot in the breast did not taint the jury's verdict. Affirmed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 10, 2024, Case #: A24A0115, Categories: Damages, Negligence
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J. Brown, in this interlocutory appeal, finds the circuit court properly denied the nursing center's motion to compel arbitration in this wrongful death suit. The estate alleges that due to insufficient staffing, the decedent was not turned often enough to prevent the stage 2 wound to her left coccyx, a boil to her left buttock and an unstageable wound to her right heel. The patient was also dehydrated and malnourished, which prevented healing. There is insufficient evidence the decedent authorized her daughter to bind her to arbitration, and the daughter did not have actual authority to enter into the agreement on her mother's behalf. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 8, 2024, Case #: CV-23-182, Categories: Arbitration, Health Care, Wrongful Death
J. Jolivette Brown denies summary judgment to a New Orleans hotel on its argument the litigant’s claims for monetary damages are barred by state law because he was sentenced to 37 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun in connection with the shooting death of an armed hotel parking valet. Genuine issues of material fact remain as to whether the deceased valet had the right to use reasonable force during the incident. Furthermore, the litigant's claims of negligence, assault, battery and false imprisonment will not be dismissed for non-participation in discovery since he is involuntarily incarcerated.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Jolivette Brown, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv1764, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Evidence, Damages, Negligence
J. Brown preserves, in part, a putative class action against the parent company of the Cold Stone Creamery ice cream shops, which allegedly misled consumers into believing its pistachio-flavored ice cream contained actual pistachio nuts. The litigant sufficiently backed up her claims by including documentation showing competitors’ ice cream products contained pistachio nuts, as well as customer surveys showing 85% of those polled expected there to be pistachio nuts in the product. However, she fails to provide similar documentation regarding several other flavors; thus her claims related to those flavors are dismissed.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Brown, Filed On: May 2, 2024, Case #: 2:22cv7841, NOS: Truth in Lending - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: Consumer Law, Class Action
J. Brown finds the circuit court properly terminated the parents' parental rights to their minor children. The department exercised a hold on the children, filing a petition for dependency-neglect after the incoherent and lethargic father was taken to the hospital for suspected drug use. The mother admitted to being on drugs, though she refused testing, also refusing to allow the department to investigate the state of the home. She admitted to being five months pregnant, though she refused treatment. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown , Filed On: May 1, 2024, Case #: CV-24-5, Categories: Evidence, Family Law, Guardianship
J. Brown finds that a school district, a principal and a teacher are not liable for the actions of an older student who touched younger female students inappropriately in the context of a student tutoring program. The district’s training of the teacher and principal is adequate and did not lead to the violations of the female students’ rights. The teacher and the principal are entitled to qualified immunity in that a reasonable person would not suspect that a mentoring program would lead to constitutional violations. Although the offending student violated the constitutional rights of the female students, he is not a state actor because mentorship is not considered a governmental function under Texas law, and the plaintiffs have not provided an authority that would support such a conclusion. The motions of the district, principal and teacher to dismiss are granted.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 26, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1243, NOS: Other Personal Injury - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Civil Rights, Immunity, Negligence
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly granted defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained while an officer was waiting for a backup unit to assist with a stop of defendant's vehicle. Defendant was charged with DUI offenses, reckless driving and driving on the wrong side of the road. The trial court correctly found that defendant's detention by the officer was unreasonably prolonged. The officer failed to immediately perform any field sobriety tests despite being certified to perform them and despite possessing a test in his vehicle which he eventually used on defendant. However, the case is remanded to allow the trial court to analyze whether there was probable cause for defendant's arrest. Affirmed in part.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 22, 2024, Case #: A24A0328, Categories: Evidence, Dui
J. Brown finds that the district court properly determined that a gas supplier breached its industrial gas supply contract with a chemical manufacturer and properly awarded $88 million in lost profits. The manufacturer's counsel maintained that he could prove to the jury that the damages claim for lost profits and cover damages were valued at $100 million, and the district court used the proper model for calculating damages. Further, the manufacturer shows that there were lost sales due to the breach of contract based on testimony and evidence. Affirmed.
Court: Louisiana Court Of Appeal, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 19, 2024, Case #: 2022-CA-0777, Categories: Energy, Damages, Contract
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly convicted defendant of aggravated assault and battery involving family violence, cruelty to children in the first degree and other offenses. The jury was authorized to find that defendant's act in putting a burning notebook on his girlfriend's leg was likely to cause serious injury. Defendant's conduct in trying to hang himself in the presence of a child was sufficient to support his conviction for first degree cruelty to children. However, the evidence was insufficient to support defendant's conviction for cruelty to children in the third degree because the state failed to show that the child saw or heard defendant put the burning notebook on her mother's leg. Reversed in part.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 17, 2024, Case #: A24A0548, Categories: Battery, Domestic Violence, Child Victims
J. Brown finds that the trial court properly ruled in defamation claims stemming from statements made to the chief of the fire department at which plaintiff volunteered about plaintiff's prior arrest for impersonating an officer because plaintiff failed to demonstrate that information in the sheriff's department database, or statements made to his employer about his arrest, had been false. Affirmed.
Court: Indiana Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 10, 2024, Case #: 23A-PL-2229, Categories: Employment, Defamation
J. Brown finds that the lower court properly denied the city's motion to dismiss plaintiffs' complaint seeking damages for inverse condemnation and alleging the city failed to maintain its sewer system. The municipal ante litem notice requirements are do not apply to the inverse condemnation claim. Affirmed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: April 1, 2024, Case #: A24A0019, Categories: Damages
J. Brown finds that the lower court improperly dismissed defendant's motion to suppress. The state had notice that defendant was challenging the traffic stop and his arrest. Reversed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: A24A0013, Categories: Evidence
J. Brown finds that the lower court improperly dismissed defendant's convictions on multiple counts of aggravated assault and other charges. The state was not required to allege the Covid-19 tolling provisions in each count of the indictment. Reversed.
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals, Judge: Brown, Filed On: March 28, 2024, Case #: A24A0134, Categories: Criminal Procedure
J. Brown finds the trial court properly convicted defendant for raping his girlfriend's daughter. The victim said she was 10 years old when she first made accusations against him, but she later recanted and was returned home after defendant pressured her. Her aunt then read diary entries detailing events of rape, as well as defendant's having bought her a sex toy. Contrary to defendant's argument, the state is not required to prove specifically when and where each act occurred. Furthermore, certain testimony detailing events that occurred outside Arkansas were properly admitted under the pedophile exception. Affirmed.
Court: Arkansas Court Of Appeals, Judge: Brown , Filed On: March 27, 2024, Case #: CR-23-387, Categories: Evidence, Sex Offender, Child Victims
J. Brown reaffirms a jury’s verdict that found in favor of a Suffolk County resident on his claim for malicious prosecution against a county police officer, but finds the $600,000 award in damages to be excessive and sends the case back to trial on the issue of damages unless the parties agree to a reduced award of $233,100. Lastly, the court finds the jury’s verdict against Suffolk County was not supported by the evidence and vacates the judgment.
Court: USDC Eastern District of New York, Judge: Brown, Filed On: March 26, 2024, Case #: 2:16cv4164, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Malicious Prosecution, Damages, Police Misconduct
J. Brown refuses to remand an individual's action against an insurer in connection with his negligence case. The district court has diversity jurisdiction, and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000.
Court: USDC Northern District of Texas , Judge: Brown, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 3:23cv1455, NOS: Motor Vehicle - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Insurance, Negligence, Jurisdiction