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  • Farid et al. v. Gaskell et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Law | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacque Hawk, (The Hawk Firm), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Zachary Matthews, (McMickle, Kurey & Branch, LLP), Alpharetta, Daniel Kingsley, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Alexander McDonald, (Swift, Currie, McGhee and Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0899

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of an uninsured motorist insurance carrier because injured party failed to exhaust remedies against other insurers

  • Giddens v. Metropower, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-12-01
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura Maki, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Sippel, Mark Edwards, (McAngus, Goudelock & Courie, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0923

    Court reverses summary judgment for a defendant where defendant did not conclusively show that injured plaintiff assumed risk of or contributed to his injuries

  • Rayfield v. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood, P.C

    Publication Date: 2022-11-22
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neal Callahan, Clarence Mullin, David Rayfield, (Waldrep, Mullin and Callahan, LLC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal Pope, Kimberly Johnson, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0955

    Court reverses denial of a motion to transfer venue in a compensation dispute between a lawyer and his former firm

  • City of College Park et al. v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2022-11-10
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston Denmark, Valorri Jones, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Amy Katz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Billips, (Barrett & Farahany), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0740

    Open Meetings Act does not require a vote for appointment of interim officials, and trial court erred in granting former employee's summary judgment motion on that basis

  • Freeman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-10-17
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Arndt, (Assistant Public Defender), Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randal McGinley, (Newton County District Attorney’s Office), Covington, Briana Carter, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0996

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated battery and other crimes over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and admission of prior acts evidence

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  • Rosser v. Lynn et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Lefco, (Law Offices Stanley M. Lefco, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Veronica Hoffler, Tierra Whitlock, (Law Office of Andrews an Maganiello), Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0761

    Court vacates dismissal of a personal injury action that was dismissed for lack of service and remands for consideration of plaintiff's motion for service by publication

  • Hamilton Mill Theatre Development, LLC v. Regal Cinemas, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-23
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hawkins, (James W Hawkins LLC), Cumming, Cary Ichter, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Perry, Jennifer Collins, (Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, PLLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0715

    Court affirms summary judgment for commercial tenant in a dispute over nonpayment of rent when tenant's operations were suspended during the pandemic

  • Williams v. Dekalb County et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-03
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Burch, (UGA School of Law, Appellate Clinic), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bennett Bryan, Laura Johnson, Terry Phillips, Shaheem Williams, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, Ken Jarrard, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Brent Herrin, Gus Small, Benjamin Klehr, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0508

    Court affirms dismissal of taxpayer's complaint for injunctive relief and for in camera review of documents but vacates and remands claim for civil damages

  • The State v. Walker

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton Hayes, Sara Grainger, David McElyea, Emily Labutta, (Cherokee County Solicitor-General’s Office), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Sessions, (The Sessions Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0544

    Court adopts Supreme Court holding that a dismissal of a criminal case for want of prosecution is not a barrier to re-prosecution, but statute of limitations still applies

  • The State v. Nixon

    Publication Date: 2022-08-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Racine, Aimee Sobhani, (Douglas County District Attorney’s Office), Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christy Draper, (Attorney at Law), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0406

    Court reverses dismissal of aggravated assault charges after finding that missing video evidence was not constitutionally material and was not lost in bad faith