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  • Bowman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-04-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge PHIPPS
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lamar Bowman, (Wheeler Correctional Facility), Alamo, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Daniel Porter, (Gwinnett County District Attorney), Lawrenceville, Daniel Sanmiguel, (Hall County Solicitor's Office Office of the Solicitor-General), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1930

    Court Denies State's Motion to Dismiss Appeal From Denial of 'Motion to Vacate Void Sentence'; Untimely Notice of Appeal 'Ripened' When Later Order Was Filed

  • Hartman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-04-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren Shubow, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, (The Law Offices of Fani T. Willis, LLC), Atlanta, Teri Walker, Richard Caplan, Claude Rudder, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1911

    Court affirms convictions for rape and aggravated sodomy over defendant's challenges to evidence and claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Agricommodities, Inc. v. Moore et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Butler, (Woodward & Butler, LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis Helmreich, (Attorney at Law), Lexington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1745

    Court affirms denial of new trial motion as to one successor to land but reverses and remands for entry of default judgment on another in a fraudulent conveyance action

  • Napier Jr. et al. v. Kearney

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Merbaum, Andrew Becker, Matthew Mikkelsen, (Merbaum & Becker, P.C.), Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kim Jackson, (Bovis, Kyle, Burch & Medlin, LLC), Atlanta, Peter Jacxsens, Lauren Dick, (Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1902

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of seller on house purchasers' rescission claim but reverses on their fraud and misrepresentation claims.

  • Alterman Properties LLC v. Sunshine Plaza Associates Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hal Leitman, (Rountree Leitman & Klein, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Welsh, (Welsh Law, LLC), Atlanta, Beverly Cohen, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1774

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of shopping center owner on tenant's liability for payment of certain common area expenses

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  • Ham v. City of Milton

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Beelen, (Drew Eckl & Farnham), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Frickey, Ken Jarrard, Patrick Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1751

    Court affirms dismissal of petition and writ of certiorari because petitioner failed to effect service of his complaint within the statutorily allotted time

  • Macon-Bibb County v. Hodge

    Publication Date: 2021-03-30
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Richardson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellee. Duke Groover, (James Bates Brannan Groover), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A1718

    Court reverses superior court's decision that had found that a County employee's dismissal was arbitrary and capricious

  • The Hatchett Firm, P. C. et al. v. Atlanta Life Financial Group, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-30
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy Banerjee, (Kumar, Prabhu, Patel & Banerjee, L.L.C.), Atlanta, Angelina Whitaker, (Blue Sky Law), Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lisa Wolgast, Talia Wagner, (Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1723

    Court reverses summary judgment order that had been in favor of sub-lessor due to outstanding issue of material fact, but affirms order against subtenants' counterclaims

  • Jhun et al. v. Imagine Castle, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-30
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon David Huffman, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Imagine Castle, LLC et al., Alpharetta, Patricia Hughes, Alpharetta, Alfred Hughes, Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1724

    Court affirms order compelling arbitration of contract claims and staying other proceedings notwithstanding claims of enforceability of contract under public policy

  • Patrick v. Board of Regents of the University of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2021-03-26
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Woods, (Deming, Parker, Hoffman, Campbell, & Daly, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Logan Winkles, (Georgia Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Ronald Stay, David Carson, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2045

    Court affirms dismissal of breach of contract complaint because contract was only implied and defendant did not waive sovereign immunity.