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  • Ramos v. Owens

    Publication Date: 2022-12-15
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harry Daniels, (Law offices of Harry M. Daniels, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Adelman, Hugh Rowling, Lauren Bruce, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1409

    Court affirms dismissal of inmate's negligence complaint against a county sheriff because of failure to establish waiver of sovereign immunity

  • Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission v. New Georgia Project Action Fund et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-08
    Practice Area: Discovery | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Elizabeth Young, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, Bryan Webb, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Russell Willard, (Attorney at Law Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyce Lewis, Adam Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Bryan Sells, (Law Office of Bryan L. Sells LLC), Atlanta, Marc Elias, Aria Branch, Elisabeth Frost, Alexi Velez, (Elias Law Group LLP), Washington, for appellee; Other Parties, Adam Sparks, (Krevolin & Horst, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0748

    Court affirms denial of a motion to compel a document subpoena to two campaign entities and reverses an order modifying a subpoena to another entity

  • Brandenburg v. City of Vidalia et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn Pinckney, Brent Savage, (Savage Turner & Pinckney PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Johnathan Krawcheck, Gary Toman, Anna Idelevich, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, Paul Threlkeld, David Mullens, (Oliver Maner, LLP), Savannah, for appellee; Tyrone Burns, Sr., Lakeland, Tyrone Burns, Jr., (Georgia Diagnostic Class Prison), Jackson for other party.
    Case Number: A22A1027

    Florida Mental Health Services Provider Not Subject to Suit in Georgia For Crimes Committed in Georgia by Florida Client

  • Hill v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2022-12-01
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Tucker, (Tucker & Associates Law Firm LLC), Jonesboro, Alan Parker, (Alan Parker Law Firm LLC), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie Jacobs, Christopher Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Andrew Dearing, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1113

    Court affirms denial of a suspended sheriff's petition for a writ of mandamus for to require his reinstatement

  • Mommies Properties, LLC et al. v. Semanson et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-30
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Teague, (Attorney at Law), Cumming, Larry Oldham, (Larry C. Oldham, P.C.), Cumming, Vinay Bose, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Buckley, Eric O’Brien, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Paul Frickey, Ken Jarrard, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1071

    Court affirms summary judgment for a county commissioner and inspector on plaintiff's claims for damages, and reverses on request for prospective injunctive relief

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  • City of Winder v. Barrow County

    Publication Date: 2022-11-28
    Practice Area: Public Utilities | Regulation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant McBride, Andrew Welch, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), McDonough, John Stell, (Stell, Smith & Mattison, P.C.), Winder, Brandon Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Angela Davis, Gregory Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee; Ernest Bennett (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Kenneth Lewis, (Lewis & Murphy, LLP), Winder, Walter Elliott, (Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding, P.C.), Valdosta, Jody Campbell, (Blum & Campbell, LLC), Peachtree Corners, Gregory Jay, (Chandler, Britt & Jay, LLC), Buford, Robert Wilson, (Robert Jackson Wilson, PC), Lawrenceville, for other party; Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, Larry Ramsey, (ACCG), Atlanta, G. Scheuer, (Assistant General Counsel), Atlanta, Keith Blackwell, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A22A0834

    Court affirms several orders in favor of County and against City in a dispute over collection of funds for road maintenance and water utility services

  • City of Roswell v. Hernandez-Flores

    Publication Date: 2022-11-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Wesley Jackson, (Freeman Mathis Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Stewart, (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, Kyle Koester, (Attorney at Law), Woodstock, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0985

    Court reverses denial of a City's motion for summary judgment in a personal injury case, finding that the City had not waived its sovereign immunity defense

  • Siegrist v. Herhold

    Publication Date: 2022-11-28
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh Rowling, Lauren Bruce, Elizabeth Monyak, (Sr. Associate County Attorney Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas Dumont, (The Ausband Firm), Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0650

    Court affirms denial of a motion to dismiss a negligence action based on official immunity, and agrees that a county official was acting in a discretionary capacity

  • Sons of Confederate Veterans et al. v. Henry County Board of Commissioners

    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Joseph Buckley, III, Taylor Wayne Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Patrick DeBorde Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee; Walker L. Chandler, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree City, Mawuli M. Malcolm Davis, (The Davis Bozeman Law Firm), Decatur, for Other Party; Les A. Schneider, Thomas Leland Walker, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, Martin Kenneth OToole, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; Justin Tharpe Holcombe, (Skaar & Feagle, LLP), Woodstock, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S22G0039

    Court concludes that an individual has stand to sue for injunctive relief to prevent removal of monuments, but community groups do not.

  • City of College Park et al. v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2022-11-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston Denmark, Valorri Jones, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Amy Katz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Billips, (Barrett & Farahany), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0740

    Open Meetings Act does not require a vote for appointment of interim officials, and trial court erred in granting former employee's summary judgment motion on that basis