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  • Butt v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2023-04-06
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sohail Butt, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jennifer Colangelo, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1580

    Government's Failure to Respond to Request For Records Retention Policy Did Not Violate Open Records Act

  • Tibbetts v. Worth County School District et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-06
    Practice Area: Education Law | Employment Litigation | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, William White, Matthew Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1542

    Teacher's Contract Was Renewed By Operation of Law, Precluding Sovereign Immunity Defense to Claim of Breach of Agreement

  • Lewis v. Gwinnett County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Michael Watson, (Watson Law Firm), Atlanta, Ibrahim Awad, (The Awad Law Firm, P.C.), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuwanda Williams, Melanie Jean-Noel, (Gwinnett County Law Department), Lawrenceville, for appellee; Nicole Stout, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Elise Wilson, (Strawinski & Stout, P.C.), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A1246

    Emergency COVID-19 Court Order Tolled Time For Providing Ante Litem Notice to County of Negligence Action

  • The Bondsman, Inc. et al. v. Keybo Taylor, Sheriff of Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bowers, Jeremy Akin, Lucas Boggs, (Johnson Marlowe LLP), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Marcovitch, (Sinton Scott Minock & Kerew), Atlanta, Tuwanda Williams, (Gwinnett County Law Dept.), Lawrenceville, Preston Ehlers, Atlanta, for appellee; Kellye Moore, (Attorney at Law), Perry, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A1370

    Court vacates summary judgment order and remands for determination of whether a bondsperson did not meet financial obligations required for renewal of a license.

  • Hall v. Acker

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Candace Rodgers, (The Tolson Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Thomas Sampson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall Farmer, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, Amelia Baker, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1309

    Court determines that a school security officer does not have official immunity to a student's claims for excessive force and other causes following a pepper-spray incident

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  • Rounds et al. v. Hall County et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-04
    Practice Area: Class Actions | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Buckley, Michael Kramer, Anita Balasubramanian, (Buckley Bala Wison Mew LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brenton Bean, P. Freed, William Buechner, Benton Mathis, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1584

    County affirms summary judgment in favor of a County and against a class of employees who argued that the County improperly terminated a defined benefits plan

  • Morney v. Kiker et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-03
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Aaron Michelman, (Foy & Associates, P.C.), Atlanta, Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, Steven Grunberg, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1473

    Court affirms dismissal of car accident/personal injury lawsuit against a sheriff where plaintiff presented ante litem notice only to the county and not directly to the sheriff

  • Jackson County Board of Education v. City of Commerce Board of Education et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-20
    Practice Area: Education Law | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Marshall, Henry Chalmers, Morgan Harrison, (Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Stell, (Stell, Smith & Mattison, P.C.), Winder, R. Syfan, (Hulsey, Oliver and Mahar, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1664

    Educational Services Agreement Between County and City Education Boards Was Enforceable Intergovernmental Contract

  • Camden County v. Sweatt, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-03-01
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Myers, (John S. Myers PC), Woodbine, William Bradley Carver, Sr., Russell A. Britt, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana F. Braun, Kimberly Cofer Butler, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for appellee; G. Joseph Scheuer, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Clare Rivka Norins, (First Amendment Clinic), Athens, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0837

    County's Electorate Had Constitutional Authority to Petition For Repeal of County Resolutions For Land Purchase

  • City of Alpharetta v. Francis et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-02-17
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amy Cowan, Dana Maine, Marrissa Dunn, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Mirabella, (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Marietta, Mark Weinstein, Camesha Mitchell, (Law Offices of Mark Weinstein P.C.), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1533

    Court reverses denial of a municipality's motion to dismiss a claim where the claimant's ante litem notice included a range but not a specific damages amount