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  • Dukes v. Munoz et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A18A0572

    Service By Publication Denied Due Process Where Property Purchasers Has Failed to Exercise Reasonable Diligence in Locating Owner

  • Bartenfeld v. Chick-Fil-A, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Premises Liability
    Industry: Food and Beverage | Hospitality and Lodging
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A18A0042

    Restaurant Patron Who Stumbled Over Parking Barrier in Parking Lot Failed to Establish Claim Under Distraction Doctrine

  • Brock et al. v. Daugherty

    Publication Date: 2018-07-18
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley Sillay (Ashley Sillay, Attorney at Law, LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Ramay (The Ramay Law Firm), Hazlehurst; J. Crowley (Bush Crowley & Leverett), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0445

    State of Record on Appeal Precluded De Novo Review

  • Georgia Power Company v. Cazier et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-17
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Public Utilities
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Middleton Droze, Robert Pursley Edwards Jr., Lindsey Bowen Mann, Roger S. Reigner Jr. (Troutman Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roy E. Barnes, John Frank Salter Jr. (The Barnes Law Group LLC), Marietta; James Glenn Richardson (Talley, Richardson & Cable), Dallas, for appellee. Sarah Hawkins Warren, Andrew Alan Pinson (Department of Law), Atlanta, for amicus appellant.
    Case Number: S17G0706

    Petitioners were not required to exhaust any administrative remedy before proceeding with their action against power company.

  • Clayton County Board of Tax Assessors v. Aldeasa Atlanta Joint Venture

    Publication Date: 2018-07-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arash Ali Sabzevari, Jack R. Hancock (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Scott Wright, Alla Raykin (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0430

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to a private business in a dispute over taxation of retail concession space at the airport, because the contract between the City of Atlanta and the business for the lease of the space did not create a taxable interest subject to ad valorem taxation by Clayton County.

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  • Groce et al. v. M24, LLC

    Publication Date: 2018-07-13
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melissa Hise (Palmour Law Firm), Summerville; Albert Palmour (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa Perignat, Derek Krebs (Holt Ney Zatcoff & Wasserman LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0016

    Claim That Property Offeror Misrepresented Boundaries Failed Where Boundaries Were Correctly Described in Written Contract

  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Smith v. Bell

    Publication Date: 2018-07-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contractual Disputes | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Robinson (The Law Offices of Stephen H. Robinson), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barbara Call (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0497

    Record Unclear As to How Eviction Proceeding in Magistrate Court Impacted Defendant's Ability to Pursue Other Claims in Superior Court

  • In The Matter of Gary Lanier Coulter.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-05
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Jacob Cobb, Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gary Lanier Coulter (Coulter & Associates), Bogart; Gary Lanier Coulter, Sugar Hill, for appellee. Herman Maddox Kilgore (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta; Jessica Oglesby, Atlanta; Sandra S. Cho (Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S18Y0993

    A divided Supreme Court disbarred an attorney for his violation of several of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct, including trust account violations.

  • Edward N. Davis, P. C. v. Watson

    Publication Date: 2018-07-05
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Davis (Attorney at Law), Butler, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel Sherlock (Mincey & Sherlock LLC), Roberta, for appellee. Adam Russo (Lefkoff Rubin & Gleason & Russo PC), Atlanta; James Anthony (Warner Bates McGough McGinnis & Portnoy PC), Atlanta; Floyd Dickens (Gaddis & Lanier LLC), Atlanta; Derek Littlefield (Cushing Morris Armbruster & Montgomery LLP), Atlanta; Joseph Burton (Mozley Finlayson & Loggins LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A0087

    Late-Filed Statutory Attorney's Lien Was Not Superior to Other Liens Claimed by Interpleader Defendants