• Combs v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Langley, (District Attorney), Blairsville, Francis Moran, (Lumpkin County District Attorney’s Office), Dahlonega, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1704

    Court affirms one conviction for theft by conversion by a business partner but reverses a second conviction due to lack of evidence that funds were not used for business purposes

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

    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Jordan, (Adams Jordan & Treadwell, P.C), Milledgeville, Savanna Roughen, (Adams, Jordan & Herrington, P.C.), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Kimberly Schwartz, (Assistant District Attorney), Marietta, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1649

    Court affirms dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds of negligence claims against Department of Public Safety for injuries that resulted from a collision in a high-speed police pursuit

  • Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans v. Downs

    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker Chandler, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Buckley, Taylor Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, PC), Atlanta, Bennett Bryan, Laura Johnson, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0663

    Court clarifies that organizations do not have standing but individuals plaintiffs do have standing to challenge removal of a Confederate monument, and remands for analysis of sovereign immunity issues

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Bullard, (The Bullard Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Katie Borodin, Eliot Abt, (The Abt Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Bruce Harvey, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tuttle Barksdale, (Ocmulgee Circuit District Attorneys Office), Eatonton, Christian May, (Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit), Greensboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1317

    Court affirms conviction for drug trafficking over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and ineffective assistance of trial counsel

  • Pennington et al. v. Bridge Senior Living, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Gewirtz, Eric Hertz, (Eric J Hertz, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Parks Stone, (Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0883

    Court affirms summary judgment in a premises liability case involving a fatal fall at an assisted living facility, finding that injured party had equal knowledge and should have been aware of a hazard

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  • Felts et al. v. Thaxton

    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Huestis, Amy BeMent, (Blasingame Burch Garrard & Ashley, PC), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Camp, (Attorney at Law), Athens, Susanne Burton, Lexington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0662

    Court affirms in part and reverses in part a directed verdict against a party's challenge to an annuity beneficiary change, finding that the jury should evaluate an undue influence claim

  • State v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2023-11-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fani Willis, Kevin Armstrong, Virginia Davis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Rockwell, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Mark Yurachek, (The Law Offices of Mark Allen Yurachek & Associate), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0844

    Court dismisses State's appeal where trial court entered a shorter sentence than the State had negotiated, concluding that it lacked jurisdiction to hear the State's appeal

  • Phelps v. Phelps

    Publication Date: 2023-11-28
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia Shewmaker, (Shewmaker & Lewis, LLC), Peachtree Corners, for appellant.
    for defendant: Beverly Cohen, (Attorney at Law), Roswell, Stephen Sikes, (Law Offices of Scot Sikes), Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0646

    Court vacates and remands declaratory judgment that modified an original decree in a divorce case over division of military retirement

  • Morgan County Hospital Authority v. City of Madison

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Government | Health Care Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Fjelstul, Kathryn Zickert, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Carter, (James E. Carter Law Firm, LLC), Athens, Frank Jenkins, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0795

    Proposed Drug Treatment Facility Would Be Continuation of Long-Time Hospital Use Already Occurring in City Location

  • Martin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-11-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mike Carlson, Fani Willis, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney, Atlanta Judicial Circuit), Atlanta, Kevin Armstrong, (Office of the District Attorney), Atlanta, Elizabeth Rosenwasser, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0906

    Court affirms denial of defendant's convictions for rape, child abuse, and other crimes over his contentions of ineffective assistance of counsel, improper admission of evidence, and jury instruction error