• Travelers Casualty Insurance Company of America v. Bozovich

    Publication Date: 2023-07-04
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Insurance Litigation | Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Friedman, Christopher Meeks, Victoria Munian, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susanne Witt, (Witt Law Group), Atlanta, Brian Ross, (The Ross Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; David Bersinger, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Daniels, (Barnes & Thornburg, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A23A0548

    Policy Terms Could Not Be Circumvented By Labeling Personal Injury Claims As Arising From Premises Liability and Negligent Hiring

  • Golias v. Boyce

    Publication Date: 2023-07-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathaniel Smith, (Smith & Little, P.C.), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anitra Price, (Anitra R. Price, P.C.), Fayetteville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0150

    Grandmother's Efforts to Stay In Contact With Grandchildren And Their Mother Did Not Constitute Violation of Stalking Statute

  • Baggett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-04
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Morgan Bottger, (Floyd County District Attorney’s Office), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0263

    Law Officer's Hunch That Motorist Had Committed Sex Crime Justified Investigatory Traffic Stop

  • Lopez-Lopez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Stepp, (G. Richard Stepp, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Heather Sampah, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0593

    Court reverses denial of motion to suppress pre-arrest incriminating statements because defendant was effectively detained as if he were under arrest

  • Irving v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Erica Austin, (South Georgia Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Mulholland, Moruf Oseni, (Office of the District Attorney, South Georgia Circuit), Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0323

    Court reverses probation revocation order because defendant's probation had expired and was never tolled because a tolling order was never filed with the court clerk

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  • Walker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell Shook, (Attorney at Law), Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Faircloth, Louie Fraser, Grady Cullens, (Dublin Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dublin, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0334

    Court affirms convictions for reckless conduct and criminal damage to property where the State proved the value of property damage with an estimate of repair costs

  • White v. Fana

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis Dozier, (Attorney at Law), Rincon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Molly Howard, Evan Barker, (Howard Barker Lane, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0283

    Court vacates revised parenting order that included self-executing visitation provisions because they did not give paramount import to a child's best interests

  • Day v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-07-03
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leonard Myers, (Ocmulgee Circuit Public Defender’s Office), Gray, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorneys Office), Eatonton, Cara Fiore, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Gray, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0316

    Court affirms convictions for sexual exploitation of children over defendant's contentions of trial court error, insufficient evidence, and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • The State v. Bly

    Publication Date: 2023-06-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Brandon Delfunt, Ryan Smith, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0153

    Court affirms motion to suppress evidence of narcotics seized during a traffic stop because officers had no reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to initiate that stop

  • Coastal Home Care et al. v. Fann-Roberts

    Publication Date: 2023-06-30
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernest Burriss, (Burriss Law Group, LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph Lorberbaum, (Zipperer & Lorberbaum, P.C.), Savannah, for appellee; Amy Urban, (Georgia State Board of Workers’ Compensation), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A23A0053

    Court affirms that an injured employee's five-year period for a hearing on her workers' compensation claim was extended by the State's COVID-19 Emergency Order