• Stelly v. WSE Property Management, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-08-05
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Blaska, Dana Norman, Thomas Blaska, (The Blaska Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Shannon, (Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP), Atlanta, Theresa Benz, Jacob Rey, (Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP), Denver, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0248

    Court reverses summary judgment in a slip-and-fall action due to outstanding issues of material fact

  • Wells v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2019-08-01
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Strauss, (Attorney at Law), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Burke, Myles Levelle, Brian Moore, Vivian Fisher, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Gordon Wells, Conroe, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0404

    Triable Issue of Fact as to Whether Construction Loan and Line of Credit Were Inextricably Linked

  • Mercer University v. Stofer et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-31
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan J. Payne, Brian David Trulock, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ranse Murphy Partin, Davis Shirley Popper, (Conley Griggs Partin LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Mathew G. Nasrallah, (Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah, LLP), Marietta, Allison Elmore Thornton, (Georgia Trial Lawyers Association), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S18G1022

    Court reviews landowner's right to claim immunity under Recreational Parks Act

  • Gainesville Mechanical, Inc. v. Air Data, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-29
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nicholas Papleacos, (Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Roberts, (Roberts Construction Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0518

    Court Affirms Trial Court's Order Confirming Arbitration Award Over Objection That Arbitrator Did Not Specify Method for Calculating Damages Where Written Award Could Be Interpreted to Have Calculated Damages Via an Acceptable Method

  • The Atlanta Development Authority et al. v. Ansley Walk Condominium Association, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-25
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alpert, Douglas Hance, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Nathan Garroway, Jeffrey Zachman, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey Norman, (City of Atlanta Dept. of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Morris, Melissa Perignat, Joseph Jacobson, (Holt Ney Zatcoff & Wasserman, LLP), Atlanta, Steven Wald, Michael Smith, (Stewart, Wald & McCulley, LLC), St. Louis, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0231

    Court Affirms Trial Court's Denial of Motion to Dismiss by City of Atlanta and Related Developers Who Sought to Acquire Easement Rights from Defunct Railway Operator Through Agreement That Purported to Terminate Railway's Interest and Transfer the Easement Rights to the City

  • Siavage v. Gandy et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-24
    Practice Area: Securities Litigation
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johannes Kingma, John deMoulpied, (Carlock, Copeland & Stair, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce Brown, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Gregory Brow, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Jacob Edwards, Gainesville, for appellee. Matthew Weiss, John Goselin, (Freeman Mathis & Gary), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0706

    Court Approves of Trial Court's Refusal to Dismiss Claims Against Attorney to Ponzi-Scheme Operator Who Claimed Lack of Knowledge of Scheme

  • Jones Lang Lasalle Operations, LLC et al. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2019-07-23
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Scott, (Law Office of Terry-Dawn Thomas), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Briggs, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0084

    Court affirms denial of a property owner's summary judgment motion in a slip and fall case

  • Earls. v. Aneke et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-19
    Practice Area: Contracts | Fee Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Jason, (Jason & Bradley, LLC), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0329

    Court reverses summary judgment order due to trial court's failure to properly consider litigant's argument.

  • Pasha v. Battle Creek Homeowners Association, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Carlton, (Carlton Law, LLC), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Hynes, (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0015

    Court affirms homeowners association's right to restrict leasing.

  • In Your Dreams, Inc. et al. v. Raisin's Ranch, LLC.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-17
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Weinstein, (Law Offices of Mark Weinstein, PC), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Bain, Douglas Flint, (Flint, Connolly & Walker, LLP), Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0488

    Court Reverses Grant of Summary Judgment to Plaintiff Whose Basis for Claiming an Interest in the Property at Issue Had No Support in the Record