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  • Dates et al. v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2024-07-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Sexton, (Sexton Law Firm, LLC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney’s Office), Conyers, Nathan Stuckey, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0783

    Court affirms dismissal of injury claim due to insufficient ante litem notice

  • Morney v. Kiker et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    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 reverses dismissal of amended complaint and motion to add a deputy sheriff as a defendant in a per precedent that notice to the County gave notice to the sheriff

  • Baldwin County v. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities for the State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Welch, (Smith Welch Webb & White), McDonough, Brandon Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jonathan Loegel, (Office of the Attorney General of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1636

    Court affirms dismissal in Baldwin County's breach of contract lawsuit with state behavioral health department because no valid intergovernmental contract existed between the entities

  • Department of Transportation v. Star Land Holdings, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-09
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Carr, Logan Winkles, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Warren Power, (Power & Jaugstetter, P.C.), McDonough, Jacqueline Kennedy-Dvorak, Ruth Snell, (Power Snell, P.C.), McDonough, Amy Patterson, (Georgia Law Department), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jordan Walker, (Sever Storey Walker), Carmel, for appellee; Melanie Wilson, Tracy Lettsome, (Gwinnett County Department of Law), Lawrenceville, other party.
    Case Number: A24A0183

    Court affirms setting aside of declaration of taking due to DOT's non-compliance with property owner's rights under the the Landowner's Bill of Rights and Private Property Protection Act of 2006

  • Worth County School District v. Tibbetts

    Publication Date: 2024-06-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant E. McBride, Matthew Chase Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White LLC), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles E. Cox, Jr., (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellee; Phillip L. Hartley, Stephen Duane Pereira, (Pereira, Kirby, Kinsinger & Nguyen, LLP), Lawrenceville, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S23G0791

    Court reverses appellate court opinion and concludes that a former teacher's breach of contract action was barred by sovereign immunity because a valid contract had not been formed

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  • City of College Park et al. v. Steele

    Publication Date: 2024-06-20
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman Mathis Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael McCulley, Tareek Abdel-Aleem, (The Aleem Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0143

    Court reverses decision denying City's motion to dismiss due to insufficient ante litem notice, finding that plaintiff's demand for "approximate" damages was insufficient

  • Cobb County v. Floam et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Lauren Smith Bruce, Elizabeth Ahern Monyak, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ray Stallings Smith, III, (Smith & Liss, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Logan B. Winkles, Jonathan David Loegel, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Justin Thomas Golart, Zachary Mullinax, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Walter White, (Haynie, Litchfield,Crane & White, P.C.), Marietta, William A. Pinto, Jr., (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S24A0599

    Court reverses order granting declaratory relief to residents who challenged a county boundary redistricting, finding that they could not show a need for guidance for future conduct

  • City of Atlanta v. 400 Edgewood, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-29
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Regulation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pat Dean Dixon, III, Pat D. Dixon, Jr., (Dixon & Dixon Attorneys at Law LLC), Atlanta, Raines Felton Carter, Erika Danielle Smith, (Office of the City Solicitor), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: 400 Edgewood, LLC, Duluth, Amin Panjwani, Duluth, for appellee; Tamara Miles Ogier, (Ogier, Rothschild & Rosenfeld, P.C.), Decatur, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S24C0347

    Court denies petition for certiorari in a nuisance abatement case

  • Fleureme v. City of Atlanta et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maxwell Thelen, Seth Lowry, (445 Franklin Gateway SE), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura Yellig, Hermise Pierre, Tracey Hackett, (Fulton County Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0316

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury lawsuit against a municipality because plaintiff did not strictly adhere to statutory ante litem notice requirements

  • City of Canton v. Brandreth Holdings, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Dyer, Laura Rollins, (Dyer & Rusbridge, P.C.), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Bain, Douglas Flint, (Flint, Connolly & Walker, LLP), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0019

    Court affirms denial of motion to dismiss in an inverse condemnation case against the City, which had argued to dismiss the case due to a failure to adhere to ante litem notice requirements