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  • Coleman v. Phillips et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-13
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Davis, (Attorney at Law), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Arthur Phillips (Phillips & Phillips), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0835

    Court affirms partial summary judgment orders in attorney fee-sharing dispute, finding that open issues of material fact precluded plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on breach of contract claims

  • Surratt v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Greason, (Attorney at Law), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roosevelt Hamb, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0935

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury complaint for failure to demonstrate diligence in serving defendant

  • Smith et al. v. Millsap et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure | Court Administration
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Holm, (Blaska Holm LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Millsap, Atlanta, Aaron Clark, (Kan Clark, LLP), Atlanta, Halsey Knapp, Jessica Cino, (Krevolin Horst, Inc.), Atlanta, David Houtsma, (David Houtsma Law Firm LLC), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0651

    Trial Court Properly Disbursed Registry Funds Based on Attorney's Lien After Arbitrator Rejected Attorney's Fee Claim

  • In the Interest of C. B., et al., children.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Bennett, (Bennett Law & Mediation Services LLC), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Cruse, (Law Office of Christine M. Cruse), Warner Robins, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0726

    Court affirms termination of parental rights and denial of new trial in child dependency case, rejecting father's contentions of insufficiency of service and inadequate evidence

  • Traba et al v. Gregory B. Levett and Sons Funeral Home, Inc et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Land
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Floyd Propst, (Law Office of Floyd E. Propst), Ridgeway, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam Joffe, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Thomas Tidwell, Luciana Aquino, (Cozen O’Connor - Philadelphia, TX), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1162

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of funeral home where decedent's siblings failed to exercise their right to direct disposition of remains within the statutorily-allotted three days

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  • Symphony Medical, LLC v. FFD GA Holdings, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: Pharmaceuticals
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristen Goodman, (Hall Gilligan Roberts & Shanlever, LLP), Savannah, Keri Martin, (Moore Clarke Duvall & Rodgers, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Bauer, Jacqueline Menk, (BakerHostetler LLP), Atlanta, Kurt Lentz, (Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP), Atlanta, Vincent Russo, Matthew Parrish, Anna Edmondson, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield), Atlanta, Jeffrey Zachman, Joanne Caceres, Eric Berlin, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, William Collins, Joseph Stuhrenberg, (Burr & Forman LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, Margaret Eckrote, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, Jeffrey Stump, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0862

    Court dismisses some cannabis production license appeals ruling that the Georgia Administrative Procedures Act does not apply to give unsuccessful applicants a right of judicial review

  • The State v. Crumpton

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David White, Branden Pollett, (Northern Judicial Cicruit District Attorney’s Office), Hartwell, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Healan, (Attorney at Law), Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0888

    Court reverses trial court's grant of a general demurrer to an indictment for improper sexual contact, ruling that the statute does not require the contact to be in-person

  • Carr v. Yim

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Fee Disputes | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Dwyer, (Dwyer Law Group), Atlanta, James Neuberger, (Neuberger Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glenn Tornillo, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Peachtree Corners, Candice Bryant, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0687

    Injured party in a negligence case was not entitled to attorney fees and litigation expenses because she did not serve a valid settlement offer in a renewal action after dismissing her original complaint

  • Columbus Water Works v. Dunn, et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-11-09
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: Mining and Resources
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Clark, Thomas Gristina, (Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford), Columbus, Lewis Jones, John Fortuna, (Jones Fortuna LP), Decatur, Elizabeth Holden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Robin Leigh, Christopher Held, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Stacy Shelton, (Us Environmemtal Protection Agency), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Brown, April Lipscomb, (Southern Environmental Law Center), Atlanta, Kevin Jeselnik, (Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc.), Atlanta, for other party; Marlee Santos, (Crowell & Moring LLP), Irvine, for AM.
    Case Number: A23A0857

    Court reverses summary determination in favor of Environmental Protection Division on an issue involving water discharge and remands for an evidentiary hearing over a challenged permit

  • Thomas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Malone, (Appellate Division, Georgia Public Defender Council), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Bessonette, (Tifton Circuit Public Defender), Tifton, Jennifer Smith, Chase Studstill, (Alapaha Judicial Circuit Distritct Attorney’s Office), Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1393

    Court affirms child molestation conviction, finding that defendant waived his continuing witness rule objection regarding a medical report that went to the jury during deliberations