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  • Williams v. City of Tybee Island

    Publication Date: 2022-03-18
    Practice Area: Government | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Phillips, (Phillips & Carson), Savannah, Jonathan Phillips, (Chatham County Office of the District Attorney), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward Hughes, (Callaway, Braun, Riddle & Hughes, PC), Savannah, Benjamin Perkins, Brian Griffin, (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1780

    Teenager Assumed Risk of Drowning by Going Into Ocean at Public Beach

  • Cardinale v. Keane

    Publication Date: 2022-03-10
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Cardinale, (Matthew Charles Esq. Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ashe, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Mr. Michael Jones, (Elias Law Group LLP), Washington, Sharon Broach, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1718

    Private Citizens Can Seek Civil Penalties Under Open Records Act

  • Bing v. Taylor et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Joyner, (Haug Law Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1284

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury lawsuit against a State entity because plaintiff failed to give proper statutory ante litem notice of her claims

  • Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company v. City of College Park et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Michael Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karen Eleice Woodward, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, Alwyn Robert Fredericks, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, Alisha I. Wyatt-Bullman, Reginald Bernard McClendon, Joshua Stanley Foster, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Joseph M. Colwell, (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0482

    City did not waive sovereign immunity claims for amounts above liability insurance limits even though it purchased insurance for higher amounts

  • Spann v. Davis, et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-10
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary Wiggins, (Wiggins Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah Rasalam, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0202

    Court reverses dismissal of lawsuit against court clerks and remands for parties to properly raise issue of quasi-judicial immunity from tort claims

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  • Rodriguez v. Houston County

    Publication Date: 2022-02-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ken Jarrard, Patrick Dodson, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1566

    Court vacates dismissal of personal injury plaintiff's motion to substitute a defendant after expiration of statute of limitation and remands for further proceedings

  • City of Albany v. Dougherty County, Georgia

    Publication Date: 2022-01-28
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lewis, Jessica Haygood, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellee; Jon-Selby Hawk, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta PLLC), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1280

    Court affirms denial of City's motion for summary judgment per the law of the case doctrine because the City's issue was addressed in a prior appeal

  • Floyd v. Stone

    Publication Date: 2022-01-05
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel Aaron Emas, Joseph Thomas Rhodes, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1123

    Court affirms denial of claimants motion for permission to file an information in the nature of quo warranto to remove a judge from office

  • Spann v. Davis et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt Gregory Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Cary S. Wiggins, (Wiggins Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Briana-Maria Myers, Joshua Stanley Foster, Kimberly M. Perkins, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Laura M. Shamp, Joshua Forrest Silk, (Shamp Jordan Woodward), Atlanta, for, Amicus Appellant; Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G1536

    Trial Court Erred in Raising Issue of Quasi-Judicial Immunity Sua Sponte

  • Mallard v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

    Publication Date: 2021-12-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Moffett, Jordan Raymond, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand Moffett & Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0777

    Court reverses severance order that separated tort claims against MARTA from claims against other tortfeasors, finding no basis for severance under OCGA §9-11-42(b)