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  • Quigg v. Georgia Professional Standards Commission

    Publication Date: 2018-01-08
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Education Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Lumley, Sarah Harper (Lumley & Harper, LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Atlanta; Rebecca Mick (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta; Jennifer Colangelo (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1885

    The Court partially reversed the superior courts order affirming the final decision of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission to suspend an educators teaching certificate for 60 days based on three alleged ethical violations.

  • Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Parks Benson (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Thomas Monroe Mitchell (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1140

    The trial court properly affirmed a local zoning boards denial of landowner's application to rezone certain property, finding that the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the propertys current zoning was substantially related to the publics health, safety, morality and welfare.

  • Shelley v. Town of Tyrone

    Publication Date: 2017-11-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure | Land Use and Planning
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry Milton Quillian III, Diane Festin LaRoss (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurel E. Henderson (The Balch Law Group), Atlanta; Theodore Paul Meeker III (Sumner Meeker, LLC), Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1064

    The trial court properly granted town's motion for partial summary judgment on plaintiff's declaratory judgment and inverse condemnation claims in connection with certain zoning ordinances because plaintiff failed to exhaust his administrative remedies before seeking relief in the trial court and his as-applied challenges to the zoning ordinances were thus not ripe for judicial review.

  • Monumedia II, LLC v. Georgia Department of Transportation

    Publication Date: 2017-10-20
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Meeks, Charles Palmer (Troutman Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Atlanta; Ronald Freeman (Johnson & Freeman, LLC), Union City; Mary Volkert (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0647

    The trial court erred in affirming administrative rulings holding that a business's light-emitting diode signs inside the windows of its building violated City of Atlanta ordinances and the Georgia Outdoor Advertising Control Act.