• Rafac v. Jiangsu Linhai Power Machinery Group Corporation

    Publication Date: 2022-05-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell Graham, (G. Roger Land & Associates), Atlanta, G. Land, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Swift, Jaletta Smith, (Andersen, Tate, Carr), Duluth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1444

    Court vacates dismissal order and remands case because the trial court erred by failing to consider whether an individual was the foreign defendant's appointed agent

  • Paradise Entertainment Group, Inc. et al. v. Favors

    Publication Date: 2022-05-03
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Freed, Thomas Grant, (Freed Grant LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Cross, (The Cross Firm LLC), Decatur, Robert Kenner, (Law Offices of Robert Kenner, Jr.), Stone Mountain, Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Mecca Anderson, Samuel Starks, Shean Williams, (The Cochran Firm – Atlanta), Atlanta, Darren Summerville, Meredith Kincaid, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Peter Brogdon, (Morgan & Morgan), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0612

    Court reverses denial of summary judgment to defendants in a personal injury case where plaintiff's injuries were not caused by defendant's actions

  • Star Residential, LLC et al. v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2022-04-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie Ellis, Warner Fox, Elliott Ream, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney Moore, (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Warren Smith, William Smith, (W.Calvin Smith, II, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee; Jacob Daly, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta for AM.

    Case Number: A19A2267

    An injured party does not have a private cause of action for nuisance against an apartment complex under the Georgia Street Gang terrorism Prevention Act.

  • Luckett v. Sparkles of Gwinnett, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-22
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kurt Kastorf, (Kastorf Law), Atlanta, Joseph Wilson, (Joseph Wilson Injury Lawyers), Dunwoody, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry Landers, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0397

    Genuine Issue of Material Fact Presented As to Whether Skating Rink Operator Had Actual Knowledge of Wet Floor

  • Maynard et al. v. Snapchat, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-14
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Brian Terry, Amanda Kay Seals, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Lawson Neff, Darryl Dwayne Adams, Susan Mary Cremer, Timothy Shane Peagler, (The Law Offices of Michael Lawson Neff, P.C.), Atlanta, Todd Robert Henningsen, (Henningsen Injury Attorneys, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori G. Cohen, Sean Patrick Jessee, Andrew Zachery Ryan Smith, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, Jonathan Hugh Blavin , Anne K. Conley , John Blackston Major Pope, (Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP), Los Angeles, Anne Dodson Gower, (Gower Wooten & Darneille LLC), Atlanta, Robert David Johnson, (Johnson & Alday, LLC), Marietta, for appellee; Brian DeVoe Rogers, (Rogers & Fite, LLC), Atlanta, Lyle Griffin Warshauer, (Warshauer Law Group, PC), Atlanta, Paul Isaac Hotchkiss, (Hotchkiss Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (Bey And Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Steven Ashby, (The Ashby Firm), Marietta, for Amicus Appellant; W. Ray Persons, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Michael L. Eber, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G0555

    Manufacturer's Duty of Care Extended to Selecting From Alternative Product Designs in Light of Foreseeable Risks of Harm

  • Ligon v. Hu

    Publication Date: 2022-04-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, John Nichols, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Wilensky, (Michael S. Wilensky LLC), Atlanta, Michael Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, Jane Vincent, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurie Daniel, John Hall, (Holland & Knight), Atlanta, Matthew Friedlander, Paul Trainor, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1296

    Court reverses order granting a motion to enforce a settlement in a personal injury matter because acceptance of the settlement did not comply with the offer's terms

  • North Atlanta Golf Operations, LLC et al. v. Ward

    Publication Date: 2022-04-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury | Social Media
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Hallman, Richard Wingate, (Hallman & Wingate, LLC), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. McCurdy, (Law Office of W. Phillip McCurdy, LLC), Norcross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1525

    Court reverses summary judgment for defendant as to plaintiff's claim for libel and related claims for damages, fees and an injunction, but affirms as to tortious interference

  • Brantley et al. v. Jones et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Pierce, (J Wayne Pierce, P.A.), Duluth, Kyle White, (White Davis and White Law Firm), Anderson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harvey Gray, Alexandra Joseph, (Gray Rust St Amand Moffett & Brieske LLP), Atlanta, Jason Waymire, Terry Williams, (Attorney at Law), Buford, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1251

    In a negligence case involving a detainee suicide, court affirms summary judgment in favor of City and an officer on sovereign immunity, but reverses as to other officers

  • Langford v. Georgia Department of Community Health et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-06
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Carestia, (The Law Office of Michael P. Carestia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shauna Hill, (Lynn Leonard & Associates), Atlanta, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, Angela Cusimano, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1514

    Court affirms dismissal of injured plaintiff's car accident lawsuit against the Department of Community Health because of a deficient ante litem notice

  • City of Norcross v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2022-04-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Mobley, Kristen Guidry, (Lokey, Mobley & Doyle, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christina Saad, (Law Offices of Christina M. Saad, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1292

    Court reverses denial of a City's motion to dismiss a negligence complaint, finding that plaintiff's ante litem notice was deficient