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  • Tisdale v. Farmers Insurance Exchange

    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Harrison, (Monge & Associates), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Brown, (Brown & Adams, LLC), Columbus, Brooke Sexton, Atlanta, for appellee; Kristin Yoder, (Cruser Mitchell Novitz Sanchez Gaston & Zimet LLP), Peachtree Corners for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0616

    Court affirms summary judgment for an insurer in a car accident case because injured Uber driver had committed fraud to be accepted as a driver by Uber

  • Pangborn, LLC et al. v. Stonecipher

    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John McDonald, Jason Carruthers, (Thompson Hine LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Beal, (Buckley Beal LLP), Atlanta, Milinda Brown, (Beal Sutherland Berlin & Brown, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0490

    Court reverses summary judgment for a former employee over payments under a separation agreement due to ambiguity in the language of the agreement

  • Files v. The Housing Authority of the City of Douglas

    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Shipley, John Manly, (Manly Shipley LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Blackerby, (Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0506

    Court reverses grant of summary judgment in favor of a housing authority, finding that it is not a State entity that is entitled to sovereign immunity in a negligence case

  • Johnson v. LT Energy, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Farmer, (Johnson & Ward, LLC), Atlanta, Kathleen Edwards-Opperman, (Montlick & Associates, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Adam Joffe, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Paul Spann, (Goodman McGuffey LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Salim Qadir, Registered Agent, Cumming, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0240

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been in favor of a commercial property owner in a tri-and-fall premises liability case due to outstanding issues of material fact

  • Pass v. Athens Housing Authority

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Matthew Sellers, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Peter Law, Ernest Moran, Elizabeth Rose, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Monica Dean, Parks Stone, Lawrence Washburn, (Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Roy Manoll, (Fortson Bentley And Griffin), Athens, Matthew Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0344

    Court reverses ruling that a City Housing Authority was entitled to summary judgment due to sovereign immunity on a premises liability claim

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  • Johnson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William McIntosh, (Western Circuit Public Defender Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerald Henderson, (Gwinnett County District Attorney), Lawrenceville, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Judicial Circuit, DA), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0259

    Court affirms convictions for kidnapping, rape, and other crimes over defendant's contentions of trial court evidentiary error and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Personal Concierge MD, LLC v. SG Echo, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-08-07
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea Pawlak, (Schulten Ward & Turner, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Taube, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarbrough, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0276

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been in favor of a commercial landlord on contract and fee claims, but affirms on negligence, nuisance, and trespass claim

  • Harrison et al. v. Harrison

    Publication Date: 2023-08-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Cargo and Shipping
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tania Tuttle, Sarah Monico, Brett Ledermeier, (McLain & Merritt PC), Alpharetta, Lauren Miller, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis Levenson, (Levenson & Associates), Atlanta, Christopher Williams, (Schulten Ward Turner & Weiss, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0281

    Court reverses summary judgment award that had been in favor of a seller in a property sale dispute due to lack of standing and absence of mutual mistake

  • In the Interest of B. R., a Child

    Publication Date: 2023-08-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amber Walden, (The Fine Print Legal Consulting, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, Emily Harris, Jerry Thacker, (Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee; Douglas Pack, (Pearl & Associates), Chamblee, Bidisha Idnani, (DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center), Decatur, for other party.
    Case Number: A23A0194

    Court vacates two juvenile court orders on dependency and remands for specific findings on parental unfitness and clarification of what had been continued

  • Patricia Ann Kitchens et al. v. Lincoln County

    Publication Date: 2023-08-04
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy Plunkett, (Jimmy D. Plunkett PC), Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Jackson, Lincolnton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0193

    Court reverses holding that a property owner's injunction action against a County was barred by sovereign immunity and remands for consideration of the merits