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  • Efficiency Lodge, Inc. v. Neason, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-20
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Landlord Tenant Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles R. Bliss, Elizabeth Ann Guerrant, Lindsey Meredith Siegel, Rachel Miller Lazarus, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Inc.), Decatur, Harold T. Daniel, Jr., (Harold Daniel Law LLC), Atlanta, David Alfred Webster, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Miriam Fisher Gutman, Jamie B.J. Rush, (Southern Poverty Law Center), Decatur, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22G0838

    Remand Necessary to Determine Whether Renters in Extended-Stay Motel Had Landlord-Tenant Relationship With Motel

  • Ironshore Specialty Insurance Company v. RPG Hospitality, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-07-14
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Blackwell, David Carpenter, Tiffany Powers, (Alston & Bird, LLP), Atlanta, Brent Kaplan, Hilary Hunter, (Isenberg & Hewitt, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Cosper, Jordan Bell, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee; Roger Sumrall, Carrie Moss, (Bendin Sumarall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0047

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been in favor of an insured party due to questions of fact caused by an ambiguity in the policy over limits for certain damage

  • Friendship Enterprises, Inc. v. Hasty

    Publication Date: 2023-07-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Hergenroether, (McAngus Goudelock & Courie), Atlanta, Michael DeLeva, (SK Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Sullivan, (Mark A. Sullivan Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0520

    Court reverses denial of summary judgment on some claims and affirms on others due to issues of material fact in an injury case involving burns from liquid nitrogen burns

  • Mercy Housing Georgia III, L.P. a/b/a The Rose of Sharon Apartments et al. v. Kaapa

    Publication Date: 2023-06-20
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johnny Foster, Morton Forbes, Scot Pool, (Forbes, Foster & Pool), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Adelman, (Mark Adelman, Attorney at Law, LLC), Savannah, Jed Manton, Madeline McNeeley, Andrew Conn, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0462

    Court affirms summary judgment order in favor of wrongful death plaintiff where defendant's violation of a statute amounted to negligence per se

  • Traver v. Felton Manor, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-09-20
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura Barron, (Dickinson & Associates), Woodstock, Curtis Dickinson, (Attorney at Law), Woodstock, Maxwell Thelen, (Ashby Thelen Lowry), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bernard Kistler, (The Cincinnati Insurance Company), Peachtree Corners, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0861

    Court reverses summary judgment for an elder care facility in a premises liability case where genuine issues of fact remained as to knowledge of a hazard

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  • Patel v. Duke Hospitality, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-27
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Privacy
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Christy, Jonathan Akins, (Schreeder Wheeler & Flint, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Hawkins, (James W Hawkins LLC), Cumming, Cary Ichter, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, William Davis, (Ichter Davis, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0277

    Court reverses summary judgment order that had been against former employee's claims of computer violations, invasion of privacy, and conversion

  • Michael Smith v. Parks Hotels & Resorts, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-01
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Robert Hughes, (Robert W. Hughes, Jr. & Associates, PC), Lawrenceville, Frank Ilardi, (Ilardi Law, LLC), Atlanta, Shannon Sprinkle, Matthew Gass, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shubhra Mashelkar, Patrick Moore, (Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0388

    Court affirms denial of motion to set aside a workers' compensation settlement and a defendant's challenge to a finding regarding a non-amendable defect in the record

  • Coral Hospitality-GA, LLC v. Givens et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-20
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Scott, (Law Office of Terry-Dawn Thomas), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: PHILIP Brown, (O'Neal & Brown, P.C.), Macon, Jon-Selby Hawk, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta PLLC), Macon, Darren Summerville, Jonathan Flack, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0227

    Court reverses denial of landowner's summary judgment in a premises liability strip-and-fall case because the alleged hazard was open and obvious to the injured plaintiff

  • A & M Hospitalities LLC et al. v. Alimchandani

    Publication Date: 2022-04-18
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Bright, Justin Scott, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, John Floyd, Jennifer Peterson, Kamal Ghali, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, James Garland, George Lilly, (Alexander & Vann, LLP), Thomasville, John Kennedy, (James-Bates-Brannan-Groover, LLP), Macon, Timothy Tanner, (Attorney at Law), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry Scott, (H. Pearce Scott, P.C.), Valdosta, Vineet Roney, (Roney Law LLC), Atlanta, Daniel Lombard, David Lakin, Jonathan Bunge, Daniel Scwartz, Sanford Weisburst, (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP), Chicago, New York, K. Cooke, (Gautreaux Law, LLC), Macon, for appellee; Christopher Cohilas, (Watson Spence LLP), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1576

    Court determines that a plaintiff's second amended complaint is barred by res judicata

  • Efficiency Lodge, Inc. v. Neason et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-31
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy Barnes, Benjamin Rosichan, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Bliss, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Harold Daniel, (Harold Daniel Law LLC), Atlanta, Elizabeth Guerrant, Lindsey Siegel, ((Atlanta Legal Aid Society), Decatur, Currey Hitchens, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society), Atlanta, for appellee; Emily Early, (Southern Poverty Law Center), Decatur, for AM.
    Case Number: A21A1263

    Court affirms order precluding a hotel from summarily evicting long-term residents and determines that they could only be dispossessed with formal eviction proceedings