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  • Federal Express Corporation et al. v. Denney

    Publication Date: 2022-11-03
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Buchanan, (Buchanan Law Firm, PC), Columbus, William Holley, Anne Baroody, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP), Atlanta, Michael Sansbury, (Spotswood Sansom & Sansbury, LLC), Birmingham, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dustin Brown, (Crawford & Brown Law Firm LLP), Columbus, Jefferson Callier, (The Callier Firm), Columbus, John Clark, Michael Smith, Richard Sizemore, (Clark & Smith Law Firm, LLC), Macon, Jason Crawford, (Crawford & Brown Law Firm LLP), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0763

    Trial court erred when it set aside a default judgment as to only one of three defendants in a vehicle accident case where judgment was unapportioned

  • Tara Bridge Apartments, LP et al. v. Benson

    Publication Date: 2022-11-03
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara Marschalk, Lisa Richardson, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Barr, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene Felton, Quinton Seay, (Seay Felton, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0744

    Court reverses denial of a landlord's summary judgment motion against a tenant's premises liability claims relating to a sexual assault that occurred in her apartment

  • Beamon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Kay Jefferson, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Parisia Faith Sarfarazi, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Deborah D. Wellborn, Sherry Boston, (Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A1037

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes over defendant's challenges to sufficiency of evidence and claims of failure to merge two charges

  • Pritchett v. State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Weldon Terry Haygood, Jr., (The Office of the Appellate Defender), Rome, Frances C. Kuo, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Eric Christopher Peters, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Marianne Maxwell Gelakoska, (Office of the District Attorney), Ellijay, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0809

    Court affirms conviction for malice murder over challenges to sufficiency of evidence and admission of other-acts evidence, and contentions of ineffective assistance

  • Lowe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-11-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Samuel Rael, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patsy A. Austin-Gatson, Christopher Mark DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S22A0812

    Court affirms convictions for felony murder and related crimes over defendant's challenge to denial of a motion to sever charges, but vacates and remands for resentencing

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  • The State v. Shelnutt

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Cranford, Jessica Williams-Vickery, (Coweta Judicial Circuit), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Monte Davis, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1085

    Court reversed a grant of a motion for a new trial where that grant had been based on erroneous conclusions that defendant's trial counsel had rendered ineffective assistance

  • Hernandez v. Great American Alliance Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Lacy, (Lindsey & Lacy, P.C.), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Athans, Rachael Slimmon, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Marcovitch, (Sinton Scott Minock & Kerew), Atlanta, for appellee; John Hipes, (Hipes & Belle Isle, LLC), Alpharetta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A1147

    In an insurance coverage dispute, court affirms summary judgment in favor of umbrella insurer's denial of coverage for injuries sustained in a shooting incident

  • Dannenfelser v. Squires et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-11-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Denise Weiner, Samuel Sykes, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura Vickery, (Vickery Benesh Law, P.C.), Atlanta, or appellee; Alexandra Higgins, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree Corners, Janie Hagood, (Swift Currie), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0936

    Court affirms denial of defendant's motion to dismiss a renewal action that was file five days after filing deadline where delay was inadvertent under an e-filing system

  • Anderson v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2022-10-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Britton White, G. White, (Brennan, Harris & Rominger LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Justin Jones, (Justin T. Jones, PC), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0812

    Court reverses denial of a motion to enforce a settlement agreement in an auto accident case, finding that the plaintiff's acceptance requirements were improper

  • Law et al. v. SE Property Holdings, LLC

    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Robl, (Robl Law Group LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent Herrin, Gus Small, Benjamin Klehr, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0737

    Court affirms order holding that a debtor fraudulently transferred certain properties but reverses order as to applicability of a homestead exemption