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  • Redfearn v. Moore et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-26
    Practice Area: Contracts | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, John Smith, (Young Thagard Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, Matthew Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, Michael Arndt, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Orlando Ojeda, (Ojeda Legal, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellee; David Atkinson, Sarah Daley, (Swift Currie McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A1028

    Court affirms denial of motion to enforce a settlement agreement in a wrongful death action due to defendant's non-compliance with the strict terms of the offer

  • Harris v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-25
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Betsey Tate, (Office of the Circuit Public Defender, Southwestern Judicial Circuit), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis Lamb, Cania Brown-Gordon, (Southwestern District Attorney’s Office), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0583

    Court reverses trial court's denial of motion to suppress due to lack of probable cause in a search warrant affidavit to collect evidence from a car's electronic control module

  • State v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2024-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Gammage, Steven Rosenberg, (Fulton County Solicitor General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Iqukema Jones, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0558

    Court reverses dismissal of traffic offenses, where dismissal was based on the statute of limitations, due to miscalculation of COVID-19 tolling period

  • Ward v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Kenemer, Walter Eddy, (Whitfield County District Attorney’s Office), Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0174

    Court affirms conviction for family violence battery, rejecting defendant's multiple challenges to evidence and jury instructions

  • Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Lazarus & Adele, LLP v. Barken et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Skyler McDonald, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Tampa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, John Hadden, (Penn Law, LLC), Atlanta, G Spears, (Spears & Filipovits, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Ware, Pearson Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, Russell Britt, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Michael Wynter, (City of Atlanta- Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party; Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0159

    Court reverses sanctions against law firm, where sanctions had been awarded on account of law firm's failure to timely disclose conflict of interest

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  • City of College Park et al. v. Steele

    Publication Date: 2024-06-20
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman Mathis Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael McCulley, Tareek Abdel-Aleem, (The Aleem Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0143

    Court reverses decision denying City's motion to dismiss due to insufficient ante litem notice, finding that plaintiff's demand for "approximate" damages was insufficient

  • Geiger v. Allmond

    Publication Date: 2024-06-20
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Lavoie, (Bruce, Mathews & Lavoie), Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gabriel Cliett, (Attorney at Law), Metter, Jimmy Howell, (Howell Law Group, LLC), Statesboro, Madison Everett, (Gabe T. Cliett, P. C.), Statesboro, for appellee; Dale Busbee, (Busbee Law Group, LLC), Statesboro, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0061

    Court reverses custody award that favored a grandmother over a mother, citing insufficient evidence to overcome parental presumption

  • Griffin v. The Emory Clinic Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-19
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Premises Liability
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis Kadiri, (Francis O Kadiri LLC), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Sparwath, Tyler Jones, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0073

    Court partially reverses dismissal in professional malpractice and negligence lawsuit, concluding that negligence claims could proceed without an expert affidavit

  • Anderson v. Kaye et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-19
    Practice Area: Contracts | Fee Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mario Breedlove, (The Breedlove Law Firm), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Kaye, (Manchel, Wiggins & Kaye, LLP), Atlanta, Blue Spruell, (The Outlaw Firm LLC), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0056

    Court vacates and remands case involving attorney fees due to statute of limitations issue

  • Hall v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-06-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Fitzpatrick, (Attorney at Law), Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Mario Kladis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0568

    Court affirms convictions for aggravated assault and related offenses, rejecting challenges to sufficiency of evidence sufficiency and admission of text messages as hearsay