• Barrow v. Dunn

    Publication Date: 2018-04-05
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malissa Kaufold-Wiggins, Tyler Bishop (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta; Hugh McNatt, Hugh Peterson (McNatt, Greene & Peterson, PC.) Vidalia; Jonathan Schwartz (Jon L. Schwartz, Attorney at Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Isaac Byrd (Deputy Attorney General), Atlanta; Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Atlanta; Suzanne Osborne (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Hennelly (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta; James Coots (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee. Ray Smith (Attorney at Law), Richmond Hill, for other party.

    Case Number: A17A1385

    Environmental Protection Division Granted Wastewater Treatment Facility Permit Without Conducting Required Antidegradation Analysis

  • Harris v. City Of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2018-04-03
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Government | Whistleblower Laws
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Weiner (Law Office of Julie M. Weiner), Marietta; Howard Evans (Howard R. Evans & Associates), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn Hinton, David Gevertz (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowtiz, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A17A1984

    Employee Who Claimed Termination Violated Whistleblower Laws Failed to Show Employer's Proffered Reasons for Termination Were Pretextual

  • Anthony v. The State

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reid G. Kennedy (Law Offices of Kennedy and Kennedy), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Richard Edwards, D. Victor Reynolds (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S17A0989

    The evidence, including eyewitness identification, supported defendant's convictions for malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and he failed to prove his ineffective assistance of counsel claims as, among other things, post-trial counsel's subsequent disbarment did not itself show ineffective assistance in defendant's particular case.

  • Avery et al. v. Paulding County Airport Authority et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Transportation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles McKnight, Alison Ballard (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Baker (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta; J. Davis, Lee Carter (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A17A0849

    The Court partially reversed the dismissal of three related declaratory judgment actions arising out of the efforts of a county and a county airport authority to apply for a commercial Airport Operating Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • Emanuel, et al. v. Kautz

    Publication Date: 2017-11-21
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony Powell, Wesley Ross, Joseph Emanuel (Webb, Tanner & Powell, PC.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phyllis Miller (Attorney at Law), Lawrenceville, for appellee. Zahra Karinshak (Krevolin & Horst, LLC), Atlanta; S. Tate (Akin & Tate), Cartersville, for other party.

    Case Number: A17A1284

    The trial court properly awarded appellate attorney fees to Snellville mayor after she successfully appealed the trial court's decision in her declaratory judgment action against the members of the City Council in which she sought a declaration that she had sole authority to terminate the employment of the city attorney.

  • Law Journal Press | Digital Book

    North Texas Bench Book 2024

    Authors: A Project of The Dallas Bar Association

    View this Book

    View more book results for the query "*"

  • Atwater et al. v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2017-11-20
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Janet Scott, A. Welch (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough; Larry Mims, Ross Pittman (Attorney at Law), Tifton; Megan Pearson (Attorney at Law), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig Webster (Attorney at Law), Tifton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A17A0722

    County school officials were entitled to official immunity in teacher's suit under 42 USC § 1983 alleging that they violated her First Amendment rights by disciplining her after she posted a particular comment on a social media website and the trial court thus erred in denying their motion for judgment on the pleadings.

  • Columbus, GA Bd. of Tax Assessors v. The Med. Ctr. Hosp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2016-08-24
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Palmer, Kevin Meeks Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, and Robert Lomax, Columbus, for Columbus Bd. of Tax Assessors. Jeffrey Brown Brown Adams LLC, Andrew Rothschild, and Jerome Rothschild Rothschild Rothschild PC, Columbus, for The Med. Ctr. Hosp. Auth..
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A16A0638; A16A0639

    The hospital authority's leasehold interest in a continuing care retirement facility was a public project within the scope of the Hospital Authorities Law and thus exempt from ad valorem tax

  • Georgia Dep't of Labor v. RTT Assocs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-05-27
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Julie A. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, and Brittany H. Bolton Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher S. Anulewicz Balch Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S15G1780

    Sovereign immunity barred the plaintiff's breach of contract action against a state agency, because the written contract between the parties had expired, the alleged amendment extending the contract

  • City of Atlanta v. Mitcham

    Publication Date: 2015-02-19
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy Hampton, City Attorney, and Laura S. Burton City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Amicus Appellant: Joseph D. McGovern Dubberly McGovern, Glennville, Richard K. Strickland, and Paul M. Scott Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick. Charles H. McAleer The McAleer Law Firm PC, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14G0619

    Sovereign immunity barred the plaintiff's negligence claims against the defendant city and its chief of police based on the failure to provide medical care while he was in cu

  • Nebo Ventures LLC v. NovaPro Risk Solutions LP

    Publication Date: 2013-12-04
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Martin McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, and Bruce Brown, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Standard Hall Booth Smith PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1324

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant on the plaintiff's fraud claim arising from the parties' contract, as issues of remained for the trier of