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Cedra Mayfield

Cedra Mayfield

Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield

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March 08, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Settlement Strategy: Line-by-Line Holt Demand Leads to $1.25M Resolution

The plaintiff is 82 years old.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

March 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Fulton Jury Returns $25.5M Verdict Decades After Woman Decapitated in Taxi

"This verdict brings us closer, but we're not done yet," said prevailing plaintiff counsel James Hugh Potts II of JHPII in Atlanta.

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

March 07, 2024 | Daily Report Online

'Rule 403 Has Some Real Substance': Judge's Admission of Rap Video Leads to Reversal

"Evidence is being abused when the judges don't put their foot down and say, 'this is too prejudicial,'" said Donald F. Samuel of Garland, Samuel & Loeb in Atlanta. "That's what Rule 403 is designed to do."

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

March 05, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Family Members Ordered to Pay $21M After Extortion Attempt Backfires

"Judge [Jason] Marbutt recognized social media websites can be abused and in this case were abused by the defendants," said plaintiff counsel Robert D. Ingram of Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele in Marietta.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

March 04, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Who's Running for Judge in Metro Atlanta? Meet the Election Candidates

Candidate qualifying runs through March 8 for judicial incumbents and challengers interested in running for election in the May 21, 2024, nonpartisan primary.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

February 23, 2024 | Daily Report Online

$7M Cobb County Verdict: Jury Awards Damages for Yamaha Golf Cart Crash

"Our engineering experts proved with computer modeling and dynamic testing that Yamaha's stock cart loses control and rolls over every time when hard braking is used on a downhill slope," said plaintiff counsel Frank Bayuk of Bayuk Pratt.

By Cedra Mayfield

9 minute read

February 22, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Clayton Jury Returns $3.5M Verdict Despite Conflicting Social Media Posts

"Use it first," said lead plaintiff counsel L. Chris Stewart of Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys in Atlanta. "There's a way to explain anything."

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

February 21, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Vacated on Appeal: Ruling Clarifies Standard of Review

"'Competent substantial evidence' is a deferential [standard] that does not permit the commissioner to reweigh the evidence, judge the credibility of witnesses, or substitute his judgment on factual issues for that of the hearing officer based on the commissioner's expertise," read the Supreme Court of Georgia opinion.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

February 20, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Case Dismissed: $10K in Attorney Fees Awarded and Anti-SLAPP Motion Granted

"[T]he court took the time to examine the details of the defamation claims and granted our Anti-SLAPP Motion to Strike and awarded us almost $10,000.00 in fees on the grounds that any such communications by our client was not defamation," said defense counsel Drew Beal of Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

February 16, 2024 | Daily Report Online

UPDATE: Here's How to Work Around the Fulton County Hack in Court

"We expect to have many of our phone lines operational over the next few business days," Fulton County Superior Court Court administrator David Summerlin told the Daily Report.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read