• Dunn v. Dunn

    Publication Date: 2022-04-05
    Practice Area: Evidence | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Mammola, (Cordell & Cordell), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lawrence Stagg, (Attorney at Law), Ringgold, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1776

    Evidence of Spouse's "Concern" Too Vague to Support Finding That Other Spouse Committed Assault or Battery on Children

  • Griggs v. Miller et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-04
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Gnann, (Gannam, Gnann & Steinmetz LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Pamela Coleman, (Hall Booth Smith, PC), Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1366

    Court reverses trial court order and rules that a lienholder cannot initiate foreclosure proceedings after expiration of seven-year reversionary period after maturity date of debt

  • Gilchrist v. Meldi Sub, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-31
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Calvin McMullen, (McMullen and Associates), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Megan Prince-Miller, (Law Offices of McLaughlin & Ream), Atlanta, David Nelson, Christina Curreli, (Chambless Higdon Richardson Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, William Strickland, (Strickland & Schwartz, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1678

    Hazardous Condition on Walkway Was Open and Obvious to Someone Exercising Reasonable Care Under Circumstances

  • Efficiency Lodge, Inc. v. Neason et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-31
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry: Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy Barnes, Benjamin Rosichan, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Bliss, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Harold Daniel, (Harold Daniel Law LLC), Atlanta, Elizabeth Guerrant, Lindsey Siegel, ((Atlanta Legal Aid Society), Decatur, Currey Hitchens, (Atlanta Legal Aid Society), Atlanta, for appellee; Emily Early, (Southern Poverty Law Center), Decatur, for AM.

    Case Number: A21A1263

    Court affirms order precluding a hotel from summarily evicting long-term residents and determines that they could only be dispossessed with formal eviction proceedings

  • WCE Holdings B, LLC v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2022-03-31
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Hedrick, (Hedrick Law LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura Maki, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1382

    Court determines that a landlord is not liable for injuries caused by a collapsed deck when landlord had no actual or constructive knowledge of damage to a support beam

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  • Yanes v. Escobar

    Publication Date: 2022-03-30
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Family Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Matthews, (Attorney at Law), Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: T Bushnell, (Bushnell & Drye, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0315

    Appeal Was Subject to Discretionary Appeal Procedure and Shortened Appeal Deadline And Was Therefore Untimely Filed

  • The Cotto Law Group, LLC v. Benevidez

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Damages | Law Firm Associates
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Hines, (Law Office of Matthew C. Hines, LLC), Austell, A. Thomas Stubbs, (Law Office of A. Thomas Stubbs, LLC), Decatur, L. Vreeland, (Law Offices of Matthew C. Hines, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Little, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Caitlin Lentz, (Hami Little PC), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1601

    Prevailing Plaintiff Was Entitled to Attorney Fees Award Following Default Judgment on Complaint That Sought Fees and Expenses

  • Williams v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2022-03-29
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gabriel Bradford, (The Law Offices of Gabriel R. Bradford), Jefferson, James McGinnis, Andrew McClintock, (Warner, Bates, McGough, McGinnis & Portnoy), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia Sartain, (Lydia J. Sartain, P.C.), Gainesville, Nancy Richardson, (Stewart Melvin & Frost, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1552

    In a divorce matter, court reverses child support award that was not supported by a worksheet, affirms an alimony award, and reverses and remands attorney fee award

  • Black Voters Matter Fund Inc. et al. v. Kemp et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration | Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Thomas Rhodes, Samuel Aaron Emas, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Javier Pico-Prats, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Holly Anne Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell David Willard, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Christopher M. CarrBryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Wayne Brown, Samuel Ethan Meller, (Augusta Law Department), Augusta, George R. Hall, William James Keogh, III, James Christopher Driver, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, Barry Abbott Fleming, Frank Adam Nelson, Paul Simon Patterson Williams, (Fleming & Nelson, LLP), Evans, for appellee.

    Case Number: S21A1263

    Voter Advocacy Organization Lacked Standing to Challenge Legislation Splitting Judicial Circuit Into Two New Circuits

  • Walker v. Richmond et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Timmons, (Dekalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Jon David Huffman, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric Welch, (Eric N. Welch PC), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1277

    Court sets aside a default judgment in a property dispute case because the order on a petition for declaratory judgment was entered on an impermissible advisory basis