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  • Georgia Association of Club Executives, Inc. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Stuart Freed, Thomas Christopher Grant, Daniel Yijie Wang, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, John Thomas Morgan, III, (Law Offices of Tom Morgan), Decatur, Alexander Volokh, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Ronald Joseph Stay, Jr., Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0726

    Court affirms constitutionality of statute that imposes assessments on adult entertainment establishments

  • Jones et al. v. Scarlett & Associates, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Gorby, (Gorby, Peters & Associates LLC), Tucker, Mary Peters, (Gorby, Peters & Associates LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Simon Bloom, Troy Covington, Sean Ryan, (Bloom Parham, LLP), Atlanta, Kenneth Newby, Jamaal Brown, (Newby Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; David Broussard, (Clyde & Co US LLP), Atlanta, Saint Security, LLC, (Saint Security, LLC c/o Bonsai Bix Filings, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A1022

    Restaurant Guard's Employment Relationship Did Not Preclude Application of Mutual Combatant Doctrine

  • Dixie Amusement, LLC v. Primero Games, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-11-08
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Kushner, Ethan Knott, (Fellows LaBriola LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin Brannen, (Tesla, Inc.), Washington, Elizabeth Scherer, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Raleigh, Keith Kodosky, Ronald Masterson, Cameron Mobley, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1103

    Court vacates ruling in a breach of contract business dispute over contract terms of sale and whether those terms materially altered a contract under UCC Section 2-207

  • Funvestment Group, LLC v. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Oliver, Les Schneider, Thomas Walker, (Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Stay, Alex Sponseller, Melody Chapman, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0193

    Court reverses its previous opinion and adopts Georgia Supreme Court ruling that gross revenues generated from coin-operated amusement machines are exempt from sales and use taxes

  • Bailey et al. v. Make A Difference Ministries, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-13
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Swanson, Andrew Jones, (Jones & Swanson, LLC), Marietta, Andrew Ashby, Maxwell Thelen, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Luskin, Anelise Codrington, (Chartwell Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0546

    Court partially reverses summary judgment that had been in favor of defendant in a negligence case, finding possible gross negligence, but affirms denial of punitive damages and attorneys

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  • American Multi-Cinema, Inc. v. Gillis

    Publication Date: 2024-08-07
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Atkinson, Lauren Kamensky, Sarah Daley, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Dozier, (Dozier Law Firm, LLC), Macon, Richard Jenkins, (Dozier Law Firm, LLC), Morrow, for appellee; Lervette Blair, (Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0537

    Court reverses denial of a motion for summary judgment in a premises liability case because plaintiff had equal knowledge of an open and obvious hazard

  • Starship Enterprises of Atlanta, Inc. v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2024-07-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Regulation
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, (Begner & Begner, P.C.), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryan A. Dykes, Scott Dean Bergthold, (Law Office of Scott D. Bergthold, PLLC), Chattanooga, Chattanooga, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0361

    Court affirms dismissal of a constitutional challenge to Gwinnett County's adult establishment ordinance on grounds of res judicata

  • Fun Spot America of Atlanta, Inc. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-04-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Strickland, Kelly Chartash, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Je'Nita Lane, (The J. Lane Law Group, P.C.), Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1463

    Court reverses denial of amusement park's motion for summary judgment in a personal injury case, finding that park patron assumed the risk of injury in a go-kart collision incident

  • McCommons, et al. v. White, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-22
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin Fierman, (Attorney at Law), Madison, Ben Fierman, (Fierman Law Firm), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Joedecke, Render Freeman, Tyler Dillard, Hayley Rymer, (Andersen Tate & Carr PC), Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1541

    Court affirms $22 Million Award in wrongful death lawsuit against dirt bike trail operator, finding evidence of gross negligence that precluded operator's reliance on a waiver signed by decedent

  • Sivak v. Georgia Department of Natural Resources

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anna Cross, Meredith Kincaid, (Cross Kincaid), Decatur, Brandon Smith, (Shiver Hamilton LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Boyter, Christopher Carr, Angela Cusimano, Kristine Hayter, (Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1323

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury and premises liability lawsuit against Georgia Department of Natural Resources, citing sovereign immunity and discretionary functions exception