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  • Catoosa County, Georgia, et al. v. Rome News Media

    Publication Date: 2019-04-10
    Practice Area: Legislation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifton Patty, (Attorney at Law), Ringgold, Christopher Young, Christopher Harris, (Patty & Young, Attorneys At Law, LLC), Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ansel Beacham, (Attorney at Law), Rome, Robert Berry, (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Rich, Seigler, Richardson), Rome, David Hudson, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1701

    Court Affirms Trial Court Order Granting Permanent Injunction Against Country That Sought to Designate Newspaper Whose Operations Were Headquartered Outside of County as Official Newspaper in Contravention of Statutory Requirements

  • Oconee Federal Savings and Loan Association v. Brown et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Malone, Gregory Taube, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarbrough, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Webb, (Attorney at Law), Stockbridge, Orion Webb, Miranda Hanley, (Smith Welch Webb & White, LLC), Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1963

    Homeowners Could Not Maintain Wrongful Foreclosure Action Following Maturation of Debt and Their Failure to Make Any Payments

  • Hayman et al. v. Paulding County

    Publication Date: 2019-04-05
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Stewart, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary Morris, (Williams Morris & Waymire), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1983

    No summary judgment for the County where homeowners claims show genuine issue of material fact as to County's failure to maintain water runoff systems

  • Goodhart et al. v. Atlanta Gas Light Company

    Publication Date: 2019-04-05
    Practice Area: Evidence | Public Utilities | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Shiver, R. Campbell, Alan Hamilton, (Shiver Hamilton, LLC), Atlanta, Angela Fox, Kurt Kastorf, Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alexandra Nelson, John McDonald, Russell Rogers, (Thompson Hine LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Brantley Rowlen, Ronald Masterson, (Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A1965

    Gas Company Had No Duty to Ensure That Gas Connection to Appliance on Private Property Was Properly Secured

  • Hoechstetter et al. v. Pickens County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-04
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Capo, (Attorney at Law), Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phillp Friduss, (Hall Booth Smith, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0565

    Court reverses denial of summary judgment that had approved a conditional land use permit

  • Ford v. Ford

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Appeals | Family Law
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Ford, (James Lee Ford, P.C.), Atlanta, Jim Peterson, (Peterson & Harris, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth Lindsey, (Davis Matthews & Quigley), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1688

    Appeals Court Could Address Issue Subsumed in Party's Sufficiency-of-Evidence Challenge

  • Jackson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifford Louis Kurlander, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Scott Orion Teague, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Emily Kathleen Richardson, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1598

    Defendant Was Party to Burglary After He Opened Door to Admit Accomplices Who Then Entered With Intent to Commit Felonies

  • Park v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Citronberg, Mark Allen Yurachek, (Yurachek & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Tina Michelle Piper, Paula Khristian Smith, Rebecca Jean Dobras, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Vincent James Faucette, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Summerville Firm LLC), Atlanta, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1211

    Statute that required persons designated as sexually dangerous predators to wear GPS devices for life is declared unconstitutional

  • Fulton County v. City of Atlanta et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Legislation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kaye Woodard Burwell, Denval Anthony Stewart, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker, Emily C. Hirst, (Office of The Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emmet J. Bondurant, David Gregory Hill Brackett, Robert Lawrence Ashe, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Brian Kemp, (Georgia State Board of Elections), Atlanta, Nina Hickson, Jeffrey Spencer Haymore, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, Joseph Daniel Young, (Joseph D. Young, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A1156

    Court rejects County's constitutional challenge to Atlanta's property annexation

  • Hanham v. Access Management Group L P

    Publication Date: 2019-03-29
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Stuart Teague, Jr., Keisha Leigh Martin Chambless, (Teague & Chambless, LLLP), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce A. Taylor, Jr., Jennifer Ellen Parrott, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G1033

    Court Reveres Lower Court's Opinion That Breach of Contract Could Not Arise from Breach of Obligations Stemming from Course-of-Conduct Modifications to Written Management Agreement