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  • City of Norcross v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2022-04-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Mobley, Kristen Guidry, (Lokey, Mobley & Doyle, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christina Saad, (Law Offices of Christina M. Saad, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1292

    Court reverses denial of a City's motion to dismiss a negligence complaint, finding that plaintiff's ante litem notice was deficient

  • Thompson v. Dekalb County, Georgia

    Publication Date: 2022-03-31
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Government | Whistleblower Laws
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eleanor Attwood, (Legare Attwood & Wolfe LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randy Gepp, Ann Schildhammer, Marc Taylor, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1754

    Whistleblower Law Claimant Failed to Rebut Employer's Direct Evidence He Was Terminated For Stated Reasons

  • Eason et al. v. Lundy

    Publication Date: 2022-03-28
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon L. Joyner, (The Law Offices of Gordon Joyner), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen N. Hollomon, Warner Robins, for appellee; LaRhonda W. Patrick, (Williams Patrick Law LLC), Warner Robbins, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S22A0533

    Court affirms superior court decision that a mayoral candidate satisfied Fort Valley residency requirements and should be included on election ballot

  • Riley v. Georgia Association of Club Executives

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Alex Fredrick Sponseller, John Scott Forbes, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Miles Christian Skedsvold, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary Stuart Freed, Thomas Christopher Grant, Gerald Travis Chichester, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, John Thomas Morgan, III, (Law Offices of Tom Morgan), Decatur, Alexander Volokh, (Emory University School of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0899

    Successor Public Official Could Not be Automatically Substituted For Predecessor Official Sued in Her Individual Capacity

  • Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. et al. v. Kemp et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Aaron Emas, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Javier Pico-Prats, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Holly Anne Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Christopher M. CarrBryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Wayne Brown, Samuel Ethan Meller, (Augusta Law Department), Augusta, George R. Hall, William James Keogh, III, James Christopher Driver, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, Barry Abbott Fleming, Frank Adam Nelson, Paul Simon Patterson Williams, (Fleming & Nelson, LLP), Evans, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1263

    Voter Advocacy Organization Lacked Standing to Challenge Legislation Splitting Judicial Circuit Into Two New Circuits

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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