• Funvestment Group, LLC v. Robyn A. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2023-10-05
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice LaGrua
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Leland Walker, Paul Oliver, Les A. Schneider, (Wimberly Lawson Steckel Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julie Adams Jacobs, Ross Warren Bergethon, Logan B. Winkles, Ronald Joseph Stay, Jr., Melody Chapman, Stephen John Petrany, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Paul Richard Draper, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Christopher Scott Anulewicz, (Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Patrick N. Silloway, James Mitchell Fucetola, (Balch & Bingham, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S22G1247

    Revenue Generated From Lease of Coin Operated Amusement Machines Was Exempt From Sales and Use Taxes

  • Columbus, Georgia Board of Tax Assessors et al. v. The Medical Center Hospital Authority.

    Publication Date: 2023-08-14
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Lomax, (Robert R. Lomax, LLC), Columbus, Charles Palmer, (Troutman & Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry Buchanan, (Buchanan Law Firm, PC), Columbus, Andrew Rothschild, (Rothschild & Rothschild, P.C.), Columbus, Robert Ashe, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0373

    Court affirms exemption from property taxation for an elder care facility leased and managed by a hospital authority for a public purpose

  • Blocker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christina Michelle Kempter, (Kempter Law Group, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, Michael Scott Carlson, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S23A0032

    Excited Utterance Applied Where Declarant Was Disturbed and Only 20 Minutes Had Passed Following Incident

  • Delpiano v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

    Publication Date: 2023-05-29
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Stevens, (Stevens, Stevens & Oliver, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Krivo, (McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC), Roswell, John Sullivan, (Burr & Forman, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0564

    Prior Property Owner Lacked Standing to Challenge Lender's Suit to Reform Security Deed

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

    Publication Date: 2023-03-16
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Davison Burch, Jr., Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., Leah Ward Sears, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey Spencer Haymore, Julie Louise Sellers, Randolph Baxter Russell, (Dillard Sellers, LLC), Atlanta, Kevin Robert Stone, (Sugarman Law, LLP), Atlanta, John O’Shea Sullivan, (Burr & Forman LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Stell, Smith & Mattison, P.C.), Winder, for appellee; Joshua Adam Scoggins, Kenneth Stanton Kincaid, (Miles Hansford & Tallant, LLC), Cumming, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S22G0030

    "Golf Course" Designation on Subdivision Plat Did Not Create Easement Benefiting Homeowners

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  • Sillah v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, Alex Martin Bernick, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Clifford Louis Kurlander, Tristan Wade Gillespie, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0939

    No Affirmative Evidence was Offered to Show Sentencing Court Misapplied Law In Imposing LWOP Sentence on Juvenile Offender

  • Coe et al. v. Proskauer Rose, LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice | Tax
    Industry: Accounting | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jeven Robinson Sloan, (Loewinsohn Deary Simon Ray LLP), Dallas, Harry W. MacDougald, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Mark G. Trigg, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Shari Lynn Klevens, (Dentons US LLP), Washington, David M. Lederkramer, (Proskauer Rose), New York Lisa S. Blatt, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, for appellee; Johannes S. Kingma, Jeffrey Charles Hoffmeyer, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G1250

    Material Factual Dispute Existed as to When Clients Learned Law Firm Was Not Independent of Client's Accounting Firm

  • T-Mobile South, LLC v. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2022-07-26
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Tresh, (Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP), Atlanta, Alla Raykin, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alex Sponseller, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Mitchell Watkins, (Georgia Attorney General’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Joshua Belinfante, Daniel Monahan, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, LLC), Atlanta, Keith Blackwell, Lee Deneen, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Mark Johnson, Judson Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin P.C.), Brunswick, Colin Delaney, Anthony Rollins, Leah Sears, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for AM.

    Case Number: A22A0095

    Court vacates ruling that a telecom company was not entitled to a sales tax refund under a high-tech exemption and remands case for further consideration

  • Funvestment Group, LLC v. Crittenden

    Publication Date: 2022-07-21
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Oliver, Les Schneider, Thomas Walker, (Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Stay, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, Alex Sponseller, Melody Chapman-Caskey, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0193

    Amounts Paid by Arcade Owner to Lease Coin Operated Amusement Machines Was Not Exempt From Sales and Use Taxes

  • Copeland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-07-18
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Meghan Hobbs Hill, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Lee Franklin Tittsworth, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S22A0591

    Evidence Supported Jury's Conclusion That Witness Was Not Accomplice And Her Testimony Did Not Require Corroboration