• Chandler v. City of Lafayette

    Publication Date: 2023-11-14
    Practice Area: Government | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan Lock, (McCamy Phillips Tuggle & Fordham, LLP), Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Ray, Ronald Womack, (Womack, Rodham & Ray, P.C.), Lafayette, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1037

    Genuine Issues of Material Fact as to Whether Firetruck Driver's Negligence Proximately Caused Vehicle Collision

  • Walton Electric Membership Membership Corporation et al v. Georgia Power Company

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Cook, (Autry Hall & Cook LLP), Atlanta, Curtis Romig, (Bryan Cave, LLP), Atlanta, Nicholas Bedo, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Edwards, Thomas Reilly, William Smith, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0746

    Court determines that a property owner did not destroy or dismantle a facility such that it was entitled to switch electricity providers from Georgia Power Company under the Territorial Service Act

  • Carr v. Yim

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Dwyer, (Dwyer Law Group), Atlanta, James Neuberger, (Neuberger Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Tornillo, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Peachtree Corners, Candice Bryant, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0687

    Injured party in a negligence case was not entitled to attorney fees and litigation expenses because she did not serve a valid settlement offer in a renewal action after dismissing her original complaint

  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-08
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Wallace, (Wadkins & Wallace, P.C.), Columbus, Robert Wadkins, (Attorney at Law), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Lamb, Trevor Vanzant, (The District Attorney’s Office of the Southwestern Judicial Circuit), Americus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1029

    Trial Counsel's Numerous Alleged Failures Did Not Affect Outcome of Trial

  • Padilla-Garcia v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-10-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0718

    Court vacates an order denying a defendant's constitutional speedy trial claim and remands for the trial court's analysis of those claims under the proper standard

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  • Stewart v. Stewart

    Publication Date: 2023-10-17
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn Martin, (The Law Office of Lynn W. Martin), Ponte Vedra Beach, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garnett Harrison, (Harrison & Fortier), Kingsland, Jacqueline Fortier, (Garnett Harrison, P.C.), Kingsland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0869

    Remand Necessary For Trial Court to Address Issue of Personal Jurisdiction Over Party Accused of Contempt

  • The State v. Small

    Publication Date: 2023-09-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ruth Pawlak, Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, (Assistant District Attorney Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Winchester, (Law Offices of Matthew K. Winchester), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1140

    Court reverses order granting defendant's new trial motion, finding there was no basis to conclude that his trial counsel performed deficiently as to a jury charge request

  • WS CE Resort Owner, LLC v. Holland et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-01
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Sullivan, (Burr & Forman, LLP), Atlanta, Julie Sellers, (Dillard Sellers LLC), Atlanta, Kevin Stone, (Sugarman Law LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Haymore, Julie Sellers, Randolph Russell, (Dillard Sellers LLC), Atlanta, John Stell, (Stell, Smith & Mattison, P.C.), Winder, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0329

    Court vacates a prior decision and remands for consideration of whether an implied easement to a golf course had been granted based on a plat and deeds

  • The State v. Hillsman

    Publication Date: 2023-08-30
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, Virginia Davis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Utrophia Robinson, (Trophy Robinson Law LLC), Hampton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0853

    State Never Agreed to Sentence Less Than Mandatory Minimum For Serious Violent Felony Conviction

  • Premier Residential SE, LLC et al. v. Silverstone Residential, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-20
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Busch, Laura Mirmelli, (Busch, Slipakoff, Mills & Slomka, LLC), Atlanta, Tom Pye, (Attorney at Law), Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Katherine Silverman, Lea Dearing, (Berman Fink Van Horn P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0280

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part several aspects of a jury verdict in a complex dispute between former business partners