• Phoebe Sumter Medical Center v. Government Employees Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2022-02-25
    Practice Area: Health Care Law
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Travis Hargrove, (The Finley Firm), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Hammer, Elizabeth Lowrey, (Lueder Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1714

    Court reverses summary judgment in favor of insurer in a matter over whether a medical center had properly perfected a hospital lien

  • 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

  • The State v. Arroyo

    Publication Date: 2022-01-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Dustin Lee, (Fulton County Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Shubow, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Steven Phillips, (Public Defender), Atlanta, Kerrel McCrimons, (Fulton County Public Defender), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1358

    Court affirms ruling suppressing evidence of cocaine after officers conducted a K-9 open-air sniff near an apartment door deemed to be part of the apartment's curtilage

  • Cedillo v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-01-11
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradford Rigby, (District Attorney's Office of the Cordele Judicial), Cordele, Patrick Warren, (Assistant District Attorney), Nashville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1661

    Trial Court Erred in Failing to Make Credibility and Factual Findings on Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel

  • Cazier et al. v. Georgia Power Company

    Publication Date: 2021-12-28
    Practice Area: Public Utilities
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy Barnes, John Salter, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, James Richardson, (Talley, Richardson & Cable, P.A.), Dallas, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Droze, Thomas Reilly, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Robert Edwards, Kevin Greene, Roger Reigner, (Troutman Sanders Lockerman & Ashmore), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1346

    Court affirms summary judgment for Power Company in a dispute over rates that were set in reliance on an administrative agency's interpretation of certain terms

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  • Garland v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-12-01
    Practice Area: Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Grubman, Brittany Cambre, (Chilivis Grubman Dalbey & Warner LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, John Fowler, (Clayton County District Attorney’s Office), Jonesboro, Laura Pfister, Blair McGowan, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1059

    Trial Court Properly Held That Witness in Open Records Act Case Was Qualified to Testify as an Expert in Journalism and First Amendment Law

  • Hendrix v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Douds, (Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carroll Chisholm, Kellen Beegle, (Athens-Clarke County Solicitor General’s Office), Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0920

    Court affirms conviction for violation of a family violence order over defendant's challenge to admission of testimony from a witness that was not on the State's list

  • Poe et al. v. Cantrell

    Publication Date: 2021-11-24
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerrold Hester, (Hester Outman LLC), Norcross, James Outman, (Law Office of James B. Outman, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Barkley, (Attorney at Law), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1142

    Trial Court Properly Denied Foster Parents' Petition to Adopt Child; Legal Non-Biological Father Possesses Custodial Rights Over Child

  • Executive Limousine Transportation, Inc. v. David Curry, in his official capacity as Revenue Commissioner of The Georgia Department of Revenue

    Publication Date: 2021-11-23
    Practice Area: Government | Tax
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hughes, Les Schneider, Thomas Walker, (Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Schneider & Stine, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Alex Sponseller, Melody Chapman-Caskey, (Attorney General), Atlanta, John Forbes, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0955

    Local Governments Not Prohibited From Imposing Sales Taxes on Limousine Companies

  • Pass v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-11-05
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremiah Roberts, (Georgia Public Defender Council), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Gonzalez, Kenneth Mauldin, Landon Fogle, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A0756

    Trial Counsel's Failure to Obtain Client's Consent Before Conceding Guilt to Lesser Charges Was Not Structural Error