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  • Gonzalez v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Jeffrey Ronald Baxter, Tyler D. Fabbri, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Edward Epps, Tyler Marquis Gaines, (Epps Holloway Deloach & Hoipkemier LLC), Watkinsville, Barry L. Fitzpatrick, (Law Office of Lane Fitzpatrick), Danielsville, for appellee; Gene Patrick Hamilton, (America First Legal Foundation), Washington, Christopher Earnest Mills, (Spero Law LLC), Charleston, for Amicus Appellee; Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Gautreaux Law LLC), Macon, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0617

    Court affirms applicability of Open Records Act (ORA) to District Attorneys and denies immunity claims from DA who sought to dismiss an ORA enforcement action

  • Georgia Department of Public Safety v. Justice

    Publication Date: 2024-11-21
    Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Katherine Powers Stoff, Bryan Keith Webb, Courtney C. Poole, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Francis Peil, (Huggins Peil, LLC), Evans, McCracken Poston, (Law Offices of McCracken Poston), Ringgold, John Joseph Czura, (John J. Czura PC), Evans, John P. Batson, (The Law Office of John P. Batson), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1170

    Court affirms that sovereign immunity was not waived in state trooper's breach-of-contract claims, but vacates a conclusion that Fair Labor Standards Act were part of an employment contract

  • Morris et al. v. Sumter County et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-19
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph Simpson, (Simpson Mediation Service), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raleigh Rollins, (Alexander & Vann LLP), Thomasville, Hayden Hooks, (Attorney at Law), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0826

    On remand, the court reversed its prior opinion, found implied acceptance of a duty by Sumter County to repair and maintain subdivision roads, and reversed a trial court ruling to the contrary

  • Georgia Department of Public Safety et al. v. Cleapor

    Publication Date: 2024-11-19
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Boyter, Christopher Carr, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Zachary Procter, (Procter Law, P.C.), Lawrenceville, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), McDonough, Andrew Gebhardt, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1071

    Court reverses denial of a motion to dismiss a personal injury case, finding that plaintiff had failed to provide a timely ante litem notice to the correct government entity

  • Lowndes County Board of Tax Assessors v. Lifesouth Community Blood Centers, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-12
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Elliott, William Elliott, (Elliott Blackburn & Gooding PC), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Lowe, (Leach & Lowe LLC), Atlanta, Dabney Ware, (Foley & Lardner, LLP), Jacksonville, Kevin Hyde, (Foley & Lardner, LLP), Jacksonville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0963

    Court affirms ad valorem property tax exemption for community blood center that distributes blood products to hospitals but not directly to the public

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  • Hooks v. Rockdale County et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Padgett
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristie Hornsby, (The Hornsby Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Waymire, (Attorney at Law), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1014

    Court affirms dismissal of false arrest and imprisonment claims, finding that a County had not waived sovereign immunity

  • Columbia County v. Satcher et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-01
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cathey, Fort Gordon, James Ellington, William Keogh, (Hull Barrett PC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, Harry Revell, Alexander Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, William Trotter, (William A. Trotter, III, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0774

    On remand from the Georgia Supreme Court, court vacates an injunction against Columbia County and remands to determine whether the injunction exceeded limits on sovereign immunity

  • Clay et al v. Morgan County et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-29
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Manufacturing | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Christy, Scott Peters, (Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrea Gray, (Andrea P. Gray, LLC), Monroe, Kirk Fjelstul, Kathryn Zickert, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLC), Atlanta, Harold Melton, Charles Palmer, Charles Peeler, Elizabeth Waldbeser, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Thomas Mills, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1013

    Court dismisses suit challenging Rivian project, finding it duplicative under Public Lawsuits Act

  • Hasan Al-Bari et al. v. Craig Pigg et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-25
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Bryan Francis Jacoutot, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Charlene Swartz McGowan, Bryan Keith Webb, Christopher M. Carr, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Manoj Sam Varghese, Kayla Polonsky, Jane D. Vincent, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S25A0177

    Court affirms disqualification of electors for independent presidential candidates for failure to file petitions in their own names as required by OCGA § 21-2-132

  • Catoosa County Republican Party et al. v. Henry et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-16
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Edward Oles, Alpharetta, Catherine Scott Bernard, Jordan Alexander Johnson, (Bernard & Johnson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Christopher Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PPLP), Chattanooga, Archibald A. Farrar, Jr., Catherine Farrar Jackson, (Farrar & Corbin, P.C.), Summerville, Bryan Paul Tyson, (The Election Law Group/Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Lawrence Alan Stagg, (Stagg Law Firm, LLC), Ringgold, for appellee; Sarah E. Thompson, Statesboro, Susan P. Opraseuth, Alpharetta, for Neutral Amicus; Brent William Herrin, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0917

    Court dismisses appeal by local Republican Party organization in an election dispute over candidate qualification, stressing the importance of timeliness in election challenge cases