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  • Maine v. Georgia Department of Corrections

    Publication Date: 2020-07-29
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Trent Coggins, (Trent L. Coggins, LLC), Valdosta, Douglas McMillan, (Shingler & McMillan LLC), Donalsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Annette Cowart, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, Bryan Webb, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Laura McDonald, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Courtney Coons Poole, (Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0049

    Court affirms JNOV verdict for an employer on a Whistleblower claim because evidence did not show that a former employee was terminated for retaliation

  • Campbell et al. v. Cirrus Education, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-22
    Practice Area: Education Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Coffman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Cole, William Collins, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0191

    Court affirms dismissal of wrongful termination claims by former employees of a charter school on grounds of sovereign immunity and late filing

  • Gai Spann v. Rashida Davis et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary Wiggins, (Wiggins Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rita Cherry, Sarah Rasalam, Marlon Bull, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0202

    Court affirms dismissal of lawsuit against court clerks who were entitled to quasi-judicial immunity from tort claims

  • Campbell et al. v. Cirrus Education, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-21
    Practice Area: Education Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Coffman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Cole, William Collins, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0162

    Court affirms dismissal of wrongful termination claims by former employees of a charter school because those claims were statutorily barred

  • Georgia Professional Standards Commission v. Wilson-Williams

    Publication Date: 2020-07-16
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, Annette Cowart, Wylencia Monroe, Russell Willard, (Georgia Attorney General's Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Maurice King, (Law Offices of Maurice Luther King, Jr., P.C.), Albany, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0090

    Court reinstates suspension of an educator's certificate because superior court improperly considered a preemption argument in reversing that suspension

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  • Crawford v. Balli et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy Barnes, John Bartholomew, (The Barnes Law Group LLC), Marietta, Virgil Brown, (Virgil L. Brown & Associates), Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Boring, (Judicial Qualifications Commission, State of Georgia), Atlanta, IV Easterlin, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0124

    Court orders dismissal of a judge's petition for a writ of quo warranto on judicial ethics charges because the judge failed to seek leave of court to file the petition

  • Clayton County Civil Service Board v. Hill

    Publication Date: 2020-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joe Harris, (Mack & Harris, P.C.), Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michelle Youngblood, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Forest Park, for appellee. Rodney Williams, South Fulton, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A0653

    Court dismisses an appeal by a County Board in an employment termination matter because the Board was not an aggrieved party that had a right to pursue an appeal

  • Hojeij Branded Foods, LLC v. Clayton County, Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Wright, Alla Raykin, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack Hancock, Arash Sabzevari, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Forest Park, Winston Denmark, Leonid Felgin, Danielle Matricardi, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Atlanta, Janet Scott, (Seay/Felton LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0103

    Court reverses dismissal of taxpayer's lawsuit for a property tax refund because that action was initiated within the statute of limitations under an amended statute

  • Jackson et al. v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-19
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yasha Heidari, (Heidari Power Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, Renee D. Flaherty, (Institute for Justice), Arlington, Jaimie Cavanaugh, (Institute for Justice), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ross Warren Bergethon, Kirsten Searle Daughdril, Melissa Angeleah Tracy, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Glenn A. Delk, (Lightmas & Delk), Atlanta, Timothy Sandefur, (Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation), Phoenix, Maxwell Kent Thelen, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Eugene R. Curry, (Law Office of Eugene R. Curry), Barnstable, Madison Hunter Kitchens, John Franklin Sacha, Jr., (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A0039

    Georgians Have Constitutional Right to Pursue Lawful Occupations of Their Own Choosing Without Unreasonable Governmental Interference

  • Barrow v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Tomlinson, III, Charles W. Byrd, George "Buddy" Darden, Michael Jonathan Moore, Michael P Morrill, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Russell David Willard, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, Elizabeth Ann Penland, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Joyce Gist Lewis, Adam Martin Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Monica Joy Hanrahan, (Hanrahan Freitag Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S20A1029

    Secretary of State Could Not be Compelled to Hold Election in May For Position of Supreme Court Justice Whose Prospective Resignation In November Was Irrevocable