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  • Boyd v. Disabled American Veterans et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-05-07
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Personal Injury
    Industry: Non-Profit | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thasha Boyd, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Brieske, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, David Lift, (Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2059

    Court Reverses Dismissal of Defamation Action by Employee Whose Claims Were Dismissed under Intracorporate Privilege Merely Because Plaintiff and Defendant Worked in Shared Office Space

  • Housing Authority of the City of Augusta v. Gould

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Aaron Cosper, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ira L. Foster, Kenneth Jonathan Jones, Lisa Jane Krisher, Susan Alice Reif, (Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0524

    City Housing Authority Hearing Officer's Decision Was Not Quasi-Judicial Decision Under Georgia Certiorari Law

  • Infinite Energy, Inc., et al. v. Marietta Natural Gas, LLC, et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities | Energy and Natural Resources | Government
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marguerite Patrick, (Infinite Energy, Inc.), Atlanta, Warren Rhea, Gainesville, David Baxter, Thomas McClendon, David Baxter, (Stone & Baxter, LLP), Macon, Larry Dowdy, (Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Belinfante, Daniel Monahan, Joshua Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, LLC), Atlanta, Joshua Gunnemann, Austin Hemmer, Robert Remar, (Rogers & Hardin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Newton Galloway, Terri Lyndall, Steven Jones, (Galloway & Lyndall, LLP), Griffin, Peter Floyd, George Scott Jarvis, Anthony Greene, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Perry, for appellee. Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Perry, for Other Party. Ean Cullefer, (Georgia Chamber of Commerce), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Perry, for AM.
    Case Number: A18A1525

    City's Charter Did Not Permit Creation of Natural Gas Provider As Wholly-Owned Subsidiary LLC of City Agency Rather Than As Non-Profit Corporation

  • Catoosa County, Georgia, et al. v. Rome News Media

    Publication Date: 2019-04-10
    Practice Area: Legislation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifton Patty, (Attorney at Law), Ringgold, Christopher Young, Christopher Harris, (Patty & Young, Attorneys At Law, LLC), Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ansel Beacham, (Attorney at Law), Rome, Robert Berry, (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Rich, Seigler, Richardson), Rome, David Hudson, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1701

    Court Affirms Trial Court Order Granting Permanent Injunction Against Country That Sought to Designate Newspaper Whose Operations Were Headquartered Outside of County as Official Newspaper in Contravention of Statutory Requirements

  • Stephens et al. v. Coan

    Publication Date: 2019-04-09
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Privacy
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Guldenschuh, (Attorney at Law), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2079

    Court Affirms Trial Court Order Dismissing Suit on Official Immunity Grounds Against State Employee Who Eavesdropped on Employee's Conversation about Disdain for Supervisor After Employee Accidentally Called Supervisor During Work Hours

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  • Cook v. Smith et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-05
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice King, (Law Offices Of Maurice Luther King, Jr., P.C.), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, Janet Scott, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, Wilbur Gamble, (Collier & Gamble, LLP), Dawson, Larry Mims, (Attorney At Law), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1481

    Board of Educations action against other Board members was barred by sovereign immunity

  • City of Albany v. GA HY Imports, LLC d/b/a Autonation Hyundai-Albany

    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Automotive | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dana Maine, Matthew Weiss, (Freeman Mathis & Gary), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hawkins, Joseph Minock, (Weingberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1806

    Court Reverse Trial Court Order Denying Judgment on the Pleadings to City Facing Suit from Auto Dealer Over Floodwater Damage That Failed to Provide Timely, Proper Notice of Claims to City

  • Douglas et al. v. Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice

    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A18A2127

    Department of Justice has sovereign immunity against tort claims because claimants failed to file proper ante litem notice.

  • Ortega et al. v. Coffey et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dewey Hayes, (Dewey N. Hayes, Jr., P.C.), Douglas, Ashleigh Madison, (Southeast Law, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emily Hancock, Richard Strickland, Sean Scally, (Brown, Readdick, Bumgartner, Carter, Strickland, and Watkins), Brunswick, Moses Kim, (The Moses Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1662

    County road superintendent is immune from liability for tort injuries, but emergency medical services entity is not

  • Henry County School District v. Home Depot U. S. A., Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-19
    Practice Area: Tax
    Industry: Consumer Products | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant McBride, William White, Brandon Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Feldman, W. Wright, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Patrick Jaugstetter, (Power & Jaugstetter, P. C.), McDonough, Rod Meadows, Stephen Morris, (Meadows & Macie, P.C.), Stockbridge, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A2036

    Court Affirms Trial Court Order Denying Motion to Intervene by School Board in Tax Dispute Where Board Sought to Intervene After Final Judgment Against Tax Assessor