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  • Ham v. City of Milton

    Publication Date: 2021-03-31
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Beelen, (Drew Eckl & Farnham), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Frickey, Ken Jarrard, Patrick Jaugstetter, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1751

    Court affirms dismissal of petition and writ of certiorari because petitioner failed to effect service of his complaint within the statutorily allotted time

  • Corevest American Finance Lender LLC v. Stewart Title Guaranty Company et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A20A1785

    Court reverses an order for judgment on the pleadings because lender sufficiently alleged facts regarding potential fraud in a real estate transaction

  • McFadden v. Brigham

    Publication Date: 2021-03-18
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy Gay, LaRon Dunham, (Michael G. Hostilo LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rakhi McNeill, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Jacob O'Malley, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1918

    Trial Court Properly Held That Plaintiff Failed to Timely Serve Defendant With Process; Plaintiff Was On Notice That Service Was Contested

  • In the Interest of N. C. et al., children.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shantricia Robinson, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Shalen Nelson, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Emily Long, (Overman & Overman LLC), Fayetteville, for appellee. Lloyd Walker, (Attorney at Law), Peachtree City, Catherine Deroth, (Atlantic Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Hinesville, Vickie Strickland, Moreland, Demoine Lofton, Ellenwood, Arther Cunningham, Moreland, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A0841

    Court dismisses a mother's pro se appeal to a juvenile court dependency and child custody order due to lack of jurisdiction

  • Bass v. Medy

    Publication Date: 2021-03-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yolvondra Martin-Brown, (The Martin Law Group LLC), Atlanta, Celeste Brewer, (Bell & Washington LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sean Whitworth, (Law Offices of Sean R. Whitworth LLC), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2120

    Family Law Court Erred by Modifying Custody and Child Support Without Notice

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  • Bowen et al. v. Savoy et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-03-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick McKee, (Law Office of Patrick W. McKee, LLC), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Carlson, Lauren Miller, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & DeLoach LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1001

    Court reverses denial of a motion to set aside default after concluding that defendants established a meritorious defense to the plaintiff's allegations

  • Oconee County v. Cannon et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Eugene Williams, Jason Christopher Waymire, (Williams Morris & Waymire, LLC), Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Darl Hilton Champion, (The Champion Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Meredith Stein Watts, (The Watts Firm LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S20G0584

    Court remands for analysis of whether a defendant knew or should have known that he would be named as a defendant under the relation-back statute

  • Baldwin v. Gay et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Dawson, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, Lance Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Trevor Hiestand, Luciana Aquino, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2049

    Renewal Action Was Time Barred After Original Action Was Automatically Dismissed For Failure to Prosecute

  • SDM Investments Group, LLC, et al. v. HBN Media, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-02-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Legal Services | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Downs, (Downs Law, LLC), Atlanta, John Dennehy, (Dennehy Law), Nashua, for appellant.
    for defendant: Travis Hargrove, (The Finley Firm), Columbus, MaryBeth Gibson, (The Finley Firm), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1775

    Appellants' Unreasonable and Unexcused Failure to Timely File Trial Transcript Warranted Dismissal of Appeal

  • Strickland et al. v. Geico General Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2021-02-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Edgar, (Attorney at Law), Alma, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Lawrence, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith, Lawrence & Shenton), Valdosta, for appellee. Thomas Burke, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Tifton, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A1971

    Court reverses dismissal of plaintiff's amended renewal complaint in a personal injury action where the amended renewal complaint properly related back to the original.