April 24, 2026
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The Emory Wheel
MSGF LLP represents three Emory professors—Noëlle McAfee, Emil’ Keme, and Caroline Fohlin—in a lawsuit filed in DeKalb County State Court alleging the university violated its own Respect for Open Expression Policy and falsely imprisoned the plaintiffs during arrests at an April 2024 pro-Palestinian protest. The complaint contends Emory failed to use arrests as a “last resort” and continued pressing criminal charges despite knowing they lacked merit, ultimately seeking damages and attorney fees after all charges were dismissed.
April 23, 2026
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Associated Press
Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP represents three tenured Emory University professors — philosophy professor Noelle McAfee, English and Indigenous studies professor Emilio Del Valle-Escalante, and economics professor Caroline Fohlin — in a civil lawsuit filed in DeKalb County State Court alleging the university violated its own free expression policies when it summoned Atlanta police and Georgia State Patrol to aggressively disband a 2024 pro-Palestinian campus protest, leading to 28 arrests. The suit seeks reimbursement of legal defense costs and punitive damages after misdemeanor charges against all three plaintiffs were later dismissed.
April 22, 2026
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP partner Zack Greenamyre was quoted as an outside civil rights authority in this report on former Fulton County Sheriff’s deputy Arron Cook’s guilty plea to aggravated assault and violation of oath charges in the 2018 jail death of Antonio May — a case in which the family’s civil suit had been dismissed on qualified immunity grounds. Greenamyre observed that the outcome “speaks to how qualified immunity can sometimes be especially perverse.”
April 14, 2026
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Institute for Justice
The Institute for Justice announced it is joining the federal lawsuit brought by Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP client Cathy George, whose Sandy Springs condominium was raided at dawn by U.S. Marshals and DeKalb County deputies searching for a man who had been in jail for four months. The suit seeks to hold the officers and the U.S. government accountable for the unconstitutional raid on an innocent woman with no connection to the suspect.
April 14, 2026
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CBS News Atlanta
Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Atlanta resident Cathy George after DeKalb County Sheriff’s deputies and U.S. Marshals raided her home at 5 a.m. searching for a fugitive who had already been in jail for four months — a fact the Marshals themselves had publicized in a press release. The suit alleges multiple civil rights violations stemming from the terrifying pre-dawn raid, during which George was forced outside in a state of undress at laser-point despite having no connection to the suspect.
April 2, 2026
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NBC News
Three midwives filed suit Thursday challenging Georgia laws that require costly physician collaboration agreements for nurse-midwives and bar non-nursing midwives from practicing altogether, arguing the restrictions are unconstitutional and worsen the state’s maternal health crisis. Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP serves as local counsel in the case, which is part of a growing wave of litigation across the South seeking to expand midwifery access in maternity care deserts.
March 30, 2026
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Daily Report
Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt partners Samantha Funt and Zack Greenamyre secured significant sanctions against the Georgia Department of Corrections and a correctional officer in the civil rights case arising from the 2022 fatal stabbing of handcuffed inmate Hakeem Williams at Valdosta State Prison, with a federal judge ordering evidence exclusion, adverse jury instructions, and future monetary penalties after finding both defendants acted in bad faith by destroying surveillance video and providing false sworn testimony.
March 30, 2026
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
A federal judge sanctioned the Georgia Department of Corrections for destroying video footage of a 2022 fatal prison stabbing and permitted the civil lawsuit brought by Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP’s client — the mother of the victim’s child — to proceed to trial, finding that corrections officer Angela Butler had acted with deliberate indifference to the inmate’s constitutional rights.
March 26, 2026
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WSB-TV Channel 2 Atlanta
An MSGF client family whose home was wrongfully raided by the FBI in 2017 returned to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision last year revived their lawsuit. Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP is representing Trina Martin, Toi Cliatt, and her son Gabriel Watson, who were terrorized when FBI agents used flashbang grenades and broke down their door before realizing they had raided the wrong house, with the case now proceeding on claims of assault, battery, and civil rights violations.
March 26, 2026
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
A federal appeals court is weighing a case with major implications for law enforcement liability involving an MSGF client family whose home was mistakenly raided by an FBI SWAT team in 2017. Mitchell Shapiro Greenamyre & Funt LLP is representing the family in their lawsuit against the federal government, which was revived by a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year and could reshape police accountability rules nationwide, with client Toi Cliatt stating “We’re fighters, we’ve come this far, we’re not going to stop now.”