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  • Pollard v. Great Dane, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-07-24
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Schmidt, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allan Galis, David Burkoff, Gracie Shepherd, (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee; Robert Turner, Carolyn Spellman, (Savage Turner Pinckney Savage & Sprouse), Savannah, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0545

    Court reverses summary judgment in favor of defendant in a personal injury/loss of consortium case, citing reasonable explanation for conflicting testimony as to dates of separation

  • Jones v. Hughley

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly Ellison, Wayne Kendall, (Wayne B Kendall PC), Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tynesha Walls, (Rhodes Walls Law Office, LLC), Snellville, Dana Davis, (Tucker Davis Law LLC), East Point, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0567

    In multiple challenges to custody decisions involving an 18-year old special needs child, the court of affirmed contempt and attorney fee rulings but declares custody claims moot

  • Lawhorne et al. v. Douglas

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Huff, Randolph Powell, T. Tucker, Alexander Vey, (Huff Powell & Bailey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Turner, (Savage, Turner, Pinckney & Savage), Savannah, Christopher Britt, Jeremy McKenzie, (Karsman, McKenzie & Hart), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0556

    Court affirms $4.5 million verdict in a medical malpractice case and rejects defendant's challenge to jury instruction on availability of insurance benefits

  • Marion A. Allen, Inc. et al. v. Blake C. Johnston et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Adams, (Adams Law Firm), Fort Valley, Joseph Bloodworth, (Bush, Crowley, Leverett & Leggett, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Fox, (Adams, Hemingway & Wilson, LLP), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0213

    Court reverses denial of summary judgment in real estate fraud case, concluding that there was no factual dispute that property purchasers had failed to exercise due diligence after notice of defect

  • Preview Restaurants, LLC v. Shops At 2221 Peachtree, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-07-23
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Cheng, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Katherine Silverman, (Berman Fink Van Horn P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0237

    Court affirms lease termination and admissibility of restoration cost estimate as a non-hearsay business record in a commercial dispossessory case

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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

  • Rivera v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katie Borodin, Eliot Abt, (The Abt Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Angela Mattozzi, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0299

    Court reverses sexual exploitation conviction and remands for a new trial due to defendant's improper waiver of right to counsel, which was not done knowingly and intelligently

  • Bellagio Pools, LLC v. Marino et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-22
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley Hughes, (Oliver Hughes LLC), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Kolmel, (John B. Miller & Associates), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0220

    Court reverses and remands trial court's ruling against breach of contract claims in a pool construction dispute due to unsupported factual findings to support that ruling

  • Foreman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-22
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adrian Patrick, (Attorney at Law), Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cheryl Hightower, Louie Fraser, (Assistant District Attonrey Dublin Judicial Circuit), Dublin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0411

    Court vacates trial court's orders denying motions to plea in bar and remands cases for proper analysis of speedy trial claims and statute of limitations defenses

  • Head v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Timothy Douds, (Georgia Public Defender Council Appellate Division), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Grace Guthrie Griffith, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0263

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other offenses over defendant's challenges based on Confrontation Clause issues and improper admission of expert testimony