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  • Knight v. Safety National Casualty Corp

    Publication Date: 2022-04-01
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation | Personal Injury
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Jackson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ingram, Ryan Ingram, Lindsay Fleming, Max Perwich, (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele LLP), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1434

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury complaint against employer's insurer because plaintiff failed to satisfy a condition to collect uninsured motorist benefits

  • Lowery et al. v. Noodle Life, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Dekle, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, Andrew Holliday, (Andrew W. Holliday, P.C.), Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Luskin, Robert Noble, (Goodman, McGuffey, Lindsey & Johnson LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1463

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of one corporate entity in a personal injury action where that entity was commonly owned with the entity responsible for the injury

  • Rockdale County v. U.S. Enterprises, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-02
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Land Use and Planning | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Joseph Linkous, (Hall County Law Department), Gainesville, Mirza Qader Ali Baig, (M. Qader A. Baig & Associates, LLC), Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy E. Barnes, Benjamin Robert Rosichan, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Richard A. Carothers, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A0718

    County Ordinance's Definition of Prohibited "Truck Stop" Was Not Unconstitutionally Vague

  • Hillcrest Foods, Inc. v. Mikeals

    Publication Date: 2021-06-15
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Bibbins, Brittanie Browning, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rogers, William D'Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Thomas Ashenden, (Ashenden & Associates, P.C.), Atlanta, Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0126

    Court dismisses appellant's appeal to its petition to stay or consolidate arbitration proceedings, finding it had no jurisdiction to hear an appeal

  • Leary v. Perdue Farms, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive | Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Ayerbe, (Ayerbe & Cowart), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Fisher, Tiffany Winks, Caroline Jozefczyk, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0289

    Evidence That Two Similarly-Named Entities Had Same Address and Registered Agent Supported Leave to Amend Complaint

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  • Creek House Seafood & Grill, LLC v. Provatas, as Surviving Spouse of Michael Provatas et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-06
    Practice Area: Discovery | Premises Liability
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Ward, Carrie Coleman, (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Brunswick, Elissa Haynes, (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Turner, (Savage, Turner, Pinckney & Savage), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1631

    Court reverses order granting sanctions for spoliation of evidence where video evidence was erased before actual or constructive knowledge of litigation was given

  • DMAC81, LLC v. Nguyen et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-08
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Duke Groover, Nathaniel Edmonds, David Cromer, (James Bates Brannan Groover, LLP), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Adams, (Kenneth S. Nugent, P.C.), Macon, Virgil Adams, Caroline Herrington, Dawn Lewis, (Adams, Jordan & Herrington PC), Monroe, Lauren Childs, (Lumley & Harper, LLC), Macon, for appellee. Jon Wolfe, Christina Curreli, (Chambless Higdon Richardson Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A1991

    Court determines that employer had no respondeat superior liability or liability under special circumstances exception for employee's negligence

  • Beyond Meat, Inc. v. Don Lee Farms, A Division of Goodman Food Products, et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sada Baby, Halsey Knapp, (Krevolin & Horst LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Yeung, (Covington & Burling LLP), New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Clarke, Michael Ross, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Daniel Platt, Edward Lee, (Loeb & Loeb LLP), Los Angeles, Michael King, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1131

    Court vacates denial of a motion for a protective order and/or to quash a subpoena and remands case for reconsideration solely in view of the record before the trial court

  • RSFPITTSGA, LLC v. Schiess

    Publication Date: 2020-12-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carrie Christie, Ann Potente, (Rutherford & Christie LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shaun Cade, (Cade Law, PC), Atlanta, Darl Champion, (The Champion Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1228

    Material Issues of Fact Existed as to Whether Restaurant Owner Had Superior Knowledge of Trip-and-Fall Hazard

  • Wadley et al. v. Mother Murphy's Laboratories, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-23
    Practice Area: Evidence | Personal Injury
    Industry: Chemicals and Materials | Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Steel, (Steel and Moss, LLP), Atlanta, Kenneth McClain, Steven Crick, Scott Britton-Mehlisch, Steven Crick, Scott Britton-Mehlisch, (Humphrey, Farrington & McClain, P.C.), Independence, for appellant.
    for defendant: Judy Aust, (Goodman McGuffey, LLP), Atlanta, Eric Hawkins, Ollie, Robert Gilbreath, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), DALLAS, Camille Smith, (Callahan & Fusco LLC), Decatur, William Martin, (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, John Lowery, (Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, LLP), Atlanta, Julie Comer, (Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Steven DeFrank, Melissa Kahren, Stephen Schatz, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, J. Konold, Jason Meyer, (Gordon & Rees LLP), Los Angeles, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A0899

    Trial Court Abused Discretion in Ruling That Expert's Testimony Regarding Toxic Exposure Was Too Speculative