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  • City of College Park v. Clayton County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston A. Denmark, Steven Martin Fincher, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Eugene Paden Smith, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry McKenzie Dingle, Kyler Lee Wise, (Wilson, Brock & Irby, LLC), Atlanta, Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Michael E. Hobbs, General Counsel, Thomas Monroe Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Kathryn Elizabeth Baird, (Evert Weathresby Houff), Atlanta, Neal Jerome Quirk, (Quirk & Quirk, LLC), Atlanta, Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc), Atlanta, for appellee. Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S19A0460

    Government Immunity Did Not Bar City's Suit Against County In Tax Revenue Dispute

  • Development Authority of Cobb County et al. v. State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Thomas Brown, Rebecca Allison Davis, Daniel M. McRae, (Seyfarth Shaw, LLP), Atlanta, William A. Holby, Letitia A. McDonald, Gabriel Krimm, (King & Spalding, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Larry Savage, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0378

    Local Government Agency Had Authority to Issue Revenue Bonds to Finance Land Acquisition and Retail Development

  • Schroeder v. Dekalb County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-06-05
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Ates, (David Ates, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura Johnson, Terry Phillips, (Counsel for the County of Dekalb), Decatur, Shaheem Williams, (Dekalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0551

    Appellate Court Rulings Unaddressed by State Supreme Court Decision Were Consistent With That Decision

  • Georgia Lottery Corporation v. Patel

    Publication Date: 2019-05-09
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Jacobs, William Banks, Christopher Carr, Logan Winklesm Bernadett Rosszer, (Georgia Office of The Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly Burke, Ketan Patel, (Burke Lasseter LLC), Warner Robins, Jared Lina, James Goldstein, (Goldstein & Hayes, P.C.), Atlanta, Mark Spix, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Michael Lober, (Lober & Dobson), Woodstock, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A2143

    Georgia Lottery Ticket Constituted Written Contract, Precluding Sovereign Immunity Defense

  • Moats et al. v. Mendez

    Publication Date: 2019-05-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ryan Ray, Steven Rodham, Ronald Womack, (Womack, Gottlieb & Rodham, P.C.), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Furlong, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellee. Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for AM.
    Case Number: A18A1721

    Presentment of Personal Injury Claim For Which Sheriff Can Be Held Vicariously Liable Must Be Directed Specifically to Sheriff

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  • Housing Authority of the City of Augusta v. Gould

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Aaron Cosper, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ira L. Foster, Kenneth Jonathan Jones, Lisa Jane Krisher, Susan Alice Reif, (Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0524

    City Housing Authority Hearing Officer's Decision Was Not Quasi-Judicial Decision Under Georgia Certiorari Law

  • Infinite Energy, Inc., et al. v. Marietta Natural Gas, LLC, et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-25
    Practice Area: Corporate Entities | Energy and Natural Resources | Government
    Industry: Energy | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marguerite Patrick, (Infinite Energy, Inc.), Atlanta, Warren Rhea, Gainesville, David Baxter, Thomas McClendon, David Baxter, (Stone & Baxter, LLP), Macon, Larry Dowdy, (Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Belinfante, Daniel Monahan, Joshua Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield, LLC), Atlanta, Joshua Gunnemann, Austin Hemmer, Robert Remar, (Rogers & Hardin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Newton Galloway, Terri Lyndall, Steven Jones, (Galloway & Lyndall, LLP), Griffin, Peter Floyd, George Scott Jarvis, Anthony Greene, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Perry, for appellee. Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Perry, for Other Party. Ean Cullefer, (Georgia Chamber of Commerce), Atlanta, Daniel Walsh, (Department of Law, State of Georgia), Atlanta, Perry, for AM.
    Case Number: A18A1525

    City's Charter Did Not Permit Creation of Natural Gas Provider As Wholly-Owned Subsidiary LLC of City Agency Rather Than As Non-Profit Corporation

  • Cook v. Smith et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-05
    Practice Area: Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice King, (Law Offices Of Maurice Luther King, Jr., P.C.), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Grant McBride, Janet Scott, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), McDonough, Wilbur Gamble, (Collier & Gamble, LLP), Dawson, Larry Mims, (Attorney At Law), Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1481

    Board of Educations action against other Board members was barred by sovereign immunity

  • Wyno v. Lowndes County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-13
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: O. Wayne Ellerbee, John Gee Edwards, (The Ellerbee Law Firm), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Elliott, (Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding, P.C.), Valdosta, for appellee. Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, Susan Janan Moore, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, G. Joseph Scheuer, Kelly Jean Long Pridgen, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus appellee. Ross Warren Bergethon, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Jameson B. Bilsborrow, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Other Party.
    Case Number: S18A1231

    Georgia Constitution Immunizes Government Employees From Liability Arising From Discretionary Enforcement of Dog Control Ordinances

  • Bacon v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-11-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emory Greene, (Greene and Greene, Attorneys at Law, PC.), Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Plez Hardin, (District Attorney), Americus, Lewis Lamb, (Southwestern Circuit D.A.'s Office), Americus, Trevor Vanzant, (Office of The District Attorney, Southwestern Judicial Circuit), Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1212

    Police officer has no power or authority of arrest outside of his sworn jurisdiction