• Brimar Enterprises, LLC v. Montgomery et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-17
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Elder Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shane Stogner, (Stogner Law, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stacy Reynolds, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0691

    Court Affirms Default and Summary Judgments Against Lender and Its Owner in Elder Exploitation and Fraud Case

  • Regional Finance Company of Georgia, LLC v. Pearson

    Publication Date: 2024-12-11
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dylan Howard, (Baker, Donselson, Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alexander Covey, (Kneupper & Covey, P.C.), Berkeley Lake, Jarrett Faber, (Kneupper & Covey, P.C.), Alpharetta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0787

    Court reverses denial of lender's summary judgment motion on a negligence claim but affirms denial as to GFBPA claims in an unsolicited check fraud case

  • Dal Motors, Inc. et al. v. Orosco

    Publication Date: 2024-12-02
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a

    Case Number: A24A1015

    Court affirms fraud judgment and jury damages award against car dealership and its owner, rejecting their evidentiary contentions and challenge to piercing the corporate veil

  • Joseph Poppell et al. v. Cardinal Health Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-08
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Durham, Robert Brian Tanner, (Griffin Durham Tanner & Clarkson LLC), Savannah, John E. Floyd, Jane D. Vincent, Manoj Sam Varghese, Jeffrey Weihao Chen, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Ronald Elridge Harrison, II, (The Harrison Firm), Brunswick, Christopher William Madel, (Madel PA), Minneapolis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicholas S. Salter, John J. Haggerty, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Warrington, Stephen Derek Bauer, Christopher A. Wiech, Jacqueline Tandy Menk, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Randall Jordan. Randall A. Jordan, (Hunter MaClean Exley & Dunn), St. Simons Island, Harold David Melton, William Alexander Smith, Anaid C. Reyes Kipp, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Amber M. Charles, (Covington and Burling, LLP), Washington, for appellee; Christopher M. Carr, Ross Warren Bergethon, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: S24A0687

    Court affirms jury verdict in favor of drug distributors in an opioid-related negligence lawsuit, and dismisses as moot the distributors' challenge to the constitutionality of a statute

  • Leslie v. 1125 Hammond, LP et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Landlord Tenant Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph Goldberg, (Goldberg & Cuvillier, P.C.), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeanette LeRay, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0568

    No Material Factual Issues Were Presented in Support of Tenant's Housing Discrimination Claim

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  • Crowe v. Scissom et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-15
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Consumer Protection | Real Estate
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Luna, (Joseph Luna Law LLC), Jacksonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic Beloin, (Beloin, Brown & Blum, LLC), Atlanta, Chadwick Knott, (The Law Office of Chad Knott, LLC), Cleveland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1130

    Lender in owner-financed real estate transaction was not "creditor" under Georgia Fair Lending Act

  • Smith v. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Harman, Eric Fredrickson, (Harman Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Nidel, (Nidel & Nace, PLLC), Rockville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eileen Rumfelt, Atlanta, Meredith Lee, Robert Parsley, C. Townsend, (Miller & Martins), Chattanooga, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0170

    Consumer's Harmful-Ingredient Claim Against Food Supplement Manufacturer Raised Issues Within Primary Jurisdiction of FDA

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • Henry v. Griffin Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

    Publication Date: 2022-02-17
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Flinn, (Saag), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Davis, Patrick Reames, (Bovis Kyle Burch & Medlin LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1775

    Dissatisfied Purchase Failed to Establish Vehicle Was "Reacquired Vehicle" Under Georgia Lemon Law

  • Renasant Corporation et al. v. Korst

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bruyere, Arash Sabzevari, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Bibbins, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Walter Booth, (Jones & Booth LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0791

    Court affirms denial of mortgage lender's motion to dismiss Fair Housing Act complaint filed by a borrower who alleged discrimination due to his disabilities.