Alex Anteau

March 19, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The court had to interpret a 1973 statute in the context of a technology that has only recently become ubiquitous.

By Alex Anteau

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March 19, 2024 | Daily Report Online

In deciding the slip-and-fall case, the appeals court used a two-prong analysis created by the U.S. Supreme Court but hadn't yet been used in Georgia.

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March 18, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"[The latest order] is an unusual ruling insofar as the judge found falsity, which is usually a major factual issue in a defamation case," plaintiff's counsel Andrew Beal said

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March 15, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The defendant-appellees' takeaway? Become familiar with the terms of a business's operating agreement before you invest.

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March 15, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The plaintiff-appellant is the mother of a child who was shot by another boy who lived in the apartment complex. She argued that if the landlord took action to remove the gun from the child's apartment unit after receiving reports that he was carrying it in the common areas, her son wouldn't have died.

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March 14, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"The intent of [the lawsuit] is to clean up the bar and to give others a roadmap for how we can police our own profession," plaintiff attorney Matt Cook said.

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March 13, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"There isn't a businessperson in the state that's not going to not lose the duty to defend because within [the new criteria," the defendant-appellee attorney said. "They can either have the financial wherewithal or can borrow it. ... It reaches so much further than it needed to go."

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March 11, 2024 | Daily Report Online

"Upsetting all of that will have policy consequences that we are ill-equipped to evaluate—and that it is not our role to evaluate," Presiding Judge Christopher McFadden wrote.

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March 08, 2024 | Daily Report Online

The court said the doctrine of assumption of the risk did not eliminate liability on the part of individual defendants allegedly involved in a fight.

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March 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Georgia's judicial races will be decided during the state's nonpartisan primary election on May 21. In addition to those judges seeking reelection, new candidates are vying for vacancies and seats occupied by sitting judges. In Gwinnett County, one such hopeful, Magistrate Court Judge Regina Matthews, is vying for the vacancy that will be created by Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Karen Beyer's retirement.

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