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  • 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

  • Williams v. City of Tybee Island

    Publication Date: 2022-03-18
    Practice Area: Government | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Phillips, (Phillips & Carson), Savannah, Jonathan Phillips, (Chatham County Office of the District Attorney), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward Hughes, (Callaway, Braun, Riddle & Hughes, PC), Savannah, Benjamin Perkins, Brian Griffin, (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1780

    Teenager Assumed Risk of Drowning by Going Into Ocean at Public Beach

  • Cardinale v. Keane

    Publication Date: 2022-03-10
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Cardinale, (Matthew Charles Esq. Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ashe, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Mr. Michael Jones, (Elias Law Group LLP), Washington, Sharon Broach, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1718

    Private Citizens Can Seek Civil Penalties Under Open Records Act

  • Bing v. Taylor et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Joyner, (Haug Law Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1284

    Court affirms dismissal of personal injury lawsuit against a State entity because plaintiff failed to give proper statutory ante litem notice of her claims

  • Atlantic Specialty Insurance Company v. City of College Park et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-04
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Seth Michael Friedman, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karen Eleice Woodward, (Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP), Norcross, Alwyn Robert Fredericks, (Cash, Krugler & Fredericks, LLC), Atlanta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, Alisha I. Wyatt-Bullman, Reginald Bernard McClendon, Joshua Stanley Foster, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Joseph M. Colwell, (Butler Wooten & Peak LLP), Columbus, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G0482

    City did not waive sovereign immunity claims for amounts above liability insurance limits even though it purchased insurance for higher amounts

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  • Spann v. Davis, et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-02-10
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary Wiggins, (Wiggins Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah Rasalam, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0202

    Court reverses dismissal of lawsuit against court clerks and remands for parties to properly raise issue of quasi-judicial immunity from tort claims

  • Rodriguez v. Houston County

    Publication Date: 2022-02-09
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ken Jarrard, Patrick Dodson, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1566

    Court vacates dismissal of personal injury plaintiff's motion to substitute a defendant after expiration of statute of limitation and remands for further proceedings

  • City of Albany v. Dougherty County, Georgia

    Publication Date: 2022-01-28
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sun Choy, Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lewis, Jessica Haygood, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellee; Jon-Selby Hawk, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta PLLC), Macon, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A1280

    Court affirms denial of City's motion for summary judgment per the law of the case doctrine because the City's issue was addressed in a prior appeal

  • Floyd v. Stone

    Publication Date: 2022-01-05
    Practice Area: Judges
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel Aaron Emas, Joseph Thomas Rhodes, (Hunter Rhodes LLC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Lee M. Stoy, Jr., Bryan Keith Webb, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S21A1123

    Court affirms denial of claimants motion for permission to file an information in the nature of quo warranto to remove a judge from office

  • Spann v. Davis et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-12-21
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Court Administration
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt Gregory Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Cary S. Wiggins, (Wiggins Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Briana-Maria Myers, Joshua Stanley Foster, Kimberly M. Perkins, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Canton, Laura M. Shamp, Joshua Forrest Silk, (Shamp Jordan Woodward), Atlanta, for, Amicus Appellant; Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Zachariah Weston Lindsey, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
    Case Number: S20G1536

    Trial Court Erred in Raising Issue of Quasi-Judicial Immunity Sua Sponte