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  • City of Winder v. Barrow County

    Publication Date: 2025-01-08
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A22A0834

    Court Vacates Its Prior Opinion and Adopts Supreme Court Decision in a Dispute Between a City and a County Over Authority to Impose Special Assessments for Public Services

  • Ponder et al. v. Davis et al.

    Publication Date: 2025-01-07
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S25A0095

    Court dismisses appeal to denial of petition challenging judicial candidate's qualifications because appellants failed to take timely action

  • Peterson v. Vie

    Publication Date: 2025-01-06
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A1353

    Court dismisses election challenge due to petitioner's procedural delays

  • Hollis et al. v. City of Lagrange

    Publication Date: 2024-12-31
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: S24A0963

    Court vacates dismissal of complaint challenging city's utility charges as unconstitutional taxes and remands with direction for further review

  • Jones v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Public Utilities | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Hurt, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Watkinsville, Irwin W. Stolz, Jr., (Hurt Stolz, PC), Athens, John Floyd Woodham, (Woodham Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel Aldrich Jothan Callins, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Michael James King, Richard Joseph Valladares, Steven Jason Rosenwasser, Ernest Lamont Greer, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0652

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a challenge to certain ordinances connected to water bills to Atlanta residents, and remands for further analysis of atlanta utility fees

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  • Williams et al. v. Powell et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David N. Dreyer, Quinton G. Washington, Deana Holiday Ingraham, (Washington Dreyer & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Gerald Richard Weber, Jr., (Law Offices of Gerald Weber, LLC), Atlanta, Ebony Jervonnè Brown, Megan Toomer, (Southern Center for Human Rights), Atlanta, Zack Greenamyre, (Mitchell & Shapiro LLP), Atlanta, , for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Ross Warren Bergethon, Deborah Nolan Gore, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Zachary Mullinax, Justin Thomas Golart, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0591

    Court constitutionality of statute that places restrictions on disruptive conduct in legislative spaces

  • Georgia Department of Transportation v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2024-12-09
    Practice Area: Government | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Kathleen Turnipseed, William Tomlin, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Britt, Jeremy McKenzie, Nicholas Evans, (Karsman, McKenzie & Hart), Savannah, Daniel Boles, (Boles Law Firm, LLC), North Charleston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0902

    Ante Litem Notice Filed by Plaintiff Suing Government Agency Failed to Include Certified Mail Receipt as Proof of Mailing

  • Tussahaw Reserves, LLC et al. v. Butts County

    Publication Date: 2024-12-06
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Haymore, Julie Sellers, (Dillard Sellers LLC), Atlanta, Leland Kynes, (Webb Deniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon Bowen, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, Ken Jarrard, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Benjamin Vaughn, (Benjamin A. Vaughn, P.C.), Forsyth, for appellee; David Marmins, (Arnall Golden Gregory LLP), Atlanta, Newton Galloway, (Galloway & Lyndall, LLP), Griffin, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0851

    Court affirms dismissal of rezoning challenge and enforces Constitutional sovereign immunity exclusivity because challengers had filed a single action against a county and individuals

  • South River Watershed Alliance et al. v. Dekalb County et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-02
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A24A1088

    Court affirms that sovereign immunity bars plaintiffs' challenge to a land swap agreement between a county and a private party, and remands with instructions to dismiss the plaintiffs' case

  • Gonzalez v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Jeffrey Ronald Baxter, Tyler D. Fabbri, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Edward Epps, Tyler Marquis Gaines, (Epps Holloway Deloach & Hoipkemier LLC), Watkinsville, Barry L. Fitzpatrick, (Law Office of Lane Fitzpatrick), Danielsville, for appellee; Gene Patrick Hamilton, (America First Legal Foundation), Washington, Christopher Earnest Mills, (Spero Law LLC), Charleston, for Amicus Appellee; Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Gautreaux Law LLC), Macon, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0617

    Court affirms applicability of Open Records Act (ORA) to District Attorneys and denies immunity claims from DA who sought to dismiss an ORA enforcement action