Cedra Mayfield

March 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"This result all started with a news article that then led to extensive legal research, thorough discovery and novel legal arguments," said plaintiff attorney Darl H. Champion Jr. of The Champion Firm in Marietta.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

March 03, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Tavern Corp.'s original surrender of the keys and the premises on October 3, 2020, was unilateral," read a Georgia Court of Appeals opinion. "Tavern Corp. did not provide notice to Phipps of the surrendering of the keys before they were sent in the mail."

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read

March 02, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"We try to support each other, but supporting each other in such small numbers, while still trying to work through law school, can be a little bit difficult," said Jerome M. Miller, a second-year Emory University School of Law student.

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

March 01, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"This action is not a defense of Cobb County's meritless claims," the Publix Super Markets Inc. complaint read. "This action is about the many ways in which Cobb County's retention of private attorneys violates Georgia's State Constitution, laws, and public policy."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

February 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"As Kenny Rogers sang in 'The Gambler,' 'You got to know when to hold 'em, Know when to fold 'em,'" said defense counsel Bill Mitchell of Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet.

By Cedra Mayfield

6 minute read

February 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"The language of the [Physician Assistant Act] does not expressly impose vicarious liability on supervising physicians for the negligent acts of their [physician assistants]," the Georgia Court of Appeals ruled. "The General Assembly knows how to impose liability by statute when it chooses to, and we will not read into the PAA language that the General Assembly did not include."

By Cedra Mayfield

8 minute read

February 27, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Middle Georgia Judicial Circuit Superior Court Chief Judge Robert S. Reeves must submit witness lists, evidence and charge-dispositive motions over the coming months in connection with a 58-count judicial misconduct investigation.

By Cedra Mayfield

4 minute read

February 24, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"I've worked my entire legal career in public service to the Athens community as a public defender, prosecutor and judge," Judge Ryan S. Hope said.

By Cedra Mayfield

3 minute read

February 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"They elected not to put any fault on the assailant," said plaintiff counsel Michael J. Smith of Sinton Scott Minock Kerew in Atlanta. "That was probably the most shocking thing that happened."

By Cedra Mayfield

5 minute read

February 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Gov. Brian Kemp has appointed two judges and four lawyers to fill vacancies on the state courts of Carroll, Clarke and Coffee counties and superior courts of the Lookout Mountain and South Georgia judicial circuits.

By Cedra Mayfield

7 minute read