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  • Jubilee Development Partners, LLC et al. v. Strategic Jubilee Holdings, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-23
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Conley, Jeffrey Daxe (Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Simon Bloom, Ryan Pumpian, John Phillips (Bloom Sugarman LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2137

    The trial court properly denied appellants' motion to strike, or in the alternative, motion to dismiss the complaint filed against them for violation of Georgia's statute regarding strategic lawsuits against public participation because the claims against appellants were not based on an act in furtherance of the rights of free speech or petition and the anti-SLAPP statute thus did not apply.

  • Natasha Blakemore As Mother Of Natroya Hulbert v. Dirt Movers, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Motor Vehicle Torts
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Self
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Stevens (Greene & Cooper, LLP), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent Estes, Grant Smith (Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1540

    The plain language of O.C.G.A. § 14-2-510 (b) (4) limits a defendant corporations right of removal to cases in which venue is based only upon that specific paragraph; accordingly, the trial court erred in allowing a domestic motor carrier corporation to remove a wrongful death action against it to the county where its principal place of business was located, because venue against defendant was also proper in the county where the tort occurred under O.C.G.A. § 40-1-117 (b), the Georgia Motor Carrier Act.

  • Bishop v. Goins et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-18
    Practice Area: Attorney Rates and Arrangements | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Turner (Turner & Lawrence, P.C.), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hays McQueen (Jones Cork & Miller LLP), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2058

    The trial court was authorized to award plaintiffs attorney fees after they successfully petitioned the superior court for stalking protective orders against defendants and defendants unsuccessfully appealed, as O.C.G.A. § 16-5-94 (d) (3) authorizes such awards in connection with appellate proceedings.

  • In Re Estate Of Joe Leonard, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Allred, R. Waycaster (Attorney at Law), Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Rodham, Ronald Womack (Womack, Gottlieb & Rodham, PC.), Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A1802

    A presentment of a claim against a county under O.C.G.A. § 36-11-1 may be submitted to the governing authority by way of the county attorney as a matter of law, regardless of whether the attorney is an inside or outside county attorney; accordingly, the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to county after finding that plaintiff failed to comply with the statutory requirements for presentment in his negligence action arising after he was injured while riding a county-operated bus.

  • Anderson v. Lewis, et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-11
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Motor Vehicle Torts | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Andrews
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen Bodiford (Attorney at Law), Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell Davis, Michael Patterson (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellee. Ashley Howard (Lynn Leonard & Associates), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A1898

    In an automobile accident case, the dismissal of one defendant due to plaintiff's failure to perfect service on him did not constitute an adjudication on the merits and provided no basis for granting summary judgment for the other defendant, the first defendant's grandfather, as the dismissal was not fatal to the derivative liability claim under the family purpose doctrine.

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  • In The Interest Of M. I., a child.

    Publication Date: 2018-01-08
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Thomas (Attorney at Law), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calandra Harps (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta; Christopher Carr (Attorney General), Shalen Nelson (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta; Jerry Thacker (Attorney at Law), Conyers, for appellee. Erica Wilson (The Law Office of Erica Wilson), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A2000

    In a child dependency proceeding, the trial court erred in denying child's motion for new trial without conducting a hearing and the Court thus vacated the judgment finding that there was not probable cause to believe the child was dependent and remanded for the trial court to conduct a hearing on the motion.

  • Holmes-Bracy v. Bracy

    Publication Date: 2017-12-27
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Earl Davis (Rodney E. Davis, P.C.), Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmel W. Sanders, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1682

    The trial court partially erred in concluding that husband could not be held in contempt for failing to make any of the monthly payments of fifty percent of his military retirement that he was required to make under the terms of parties final divorce decree because the judgment had become dormant.

  • Edokpolor et al. v. Grady Memorial Hospital Corporation

    Publication Date: 2017-12-26
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. King, Jr. (Joseph H. King, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: LaTisha Dear Jackson, Jeffrey Emery Tompkins, Gerond Jullian Lawrence (Thomas Kennedy Sampson & Tompkins LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0429

    The Court of Appeals erred in holding that a judgment that resolves all of the issues in a case except the amount to be awarded for the expenses of service of process under O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 (d) is a final judgment.

  • Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, LLC v. Chappuis et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-15
    Practice Area: Business Torts | Civil Procedure
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Self
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yasha Heidari, Yenniffer Delgado (Heidari Power Law Group LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Bonder, Joseph White, Matthew Kahn (Fried & Bonder LLC), Atlanta; Richard Sanders, Jeffrey Mustari (The Sanders Law Firm P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A1408

    The Court of Appeals partially reversed the trial court's orders granting defendants' motion to strike portions of plaintiffs complaint and motion to dismiss one defendant because it was not clear that the matters sought to be stricken could have no possible bearing upon the subject matter of the litigation.

  • Steagald et al. v. Eason et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marc Avidano (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough; Andrew Gebhardt (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter McClelland, James Scarbrough (Mabry & McClelland LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0857

    Defendants were not entitled to summary judgment in a dog bite case because a jury question remained as to whether defendants had knowledge that the dog had a propensity to bite without provocation based on prior snapping incidents.