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  • Barnwell v. Trivedi

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chauncey Barnwell, (Chauncey Napoleon Brown Barnwell, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jay Eidex, (Attorney at Law), Suwanee, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1312

    Court affirms attorney fees award in favor of defendant under anti-SLAPP statute in defamation lawsuit between attorneys

  • Weaver v. Millsaps

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin Showalter, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Clyde, Jeffrey Fisher, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1234

    Court affirms dismissal of libel action under anti-SLAPP statute, emphasizing that the target of the libel action had engaged in protected speech that addressed issues of public interest

  • Gwinnett County et al. v. Netflix, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-04-12
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Peterson, Timothy Rigsbee, Robert Ashe, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Steven Berezney, Garrett Broshuis, (Korein Tillery, LLC), St. Louis, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael French, (Wargo, French & Singer LLP), Atlanta, Rachel Gage, Richard Robbins, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jean Pawlow, MARY Alexander, Robert Collins, Joseph Thomas, Peter Davis, (Latham & Watkins, LLP), Chicago, Gregory Garre, (Latham & Watkins, LLP), Washington, Stephen LaBriola, Ethan Knott, (Fellows LaBriola LLP), Atlanta, Victor Jih, Russell Kostelak, Eric Kohan, Kelly Yin, (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati), Los Angeles, Michael French, (Wargo, French & Singer LLP), Atlanta, J. Walker, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, John Jett, Ava Conger, Kevin Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP), Atlanta, Elba Smith, Ava Conger, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP), Dallas, Pantelis Michalopoulos, (Steptoe & Johnson, LLP), Washington, William Holley, Scott Zweigel, John Elliott, (Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Friedman, Pantelis Michalopoulos, (Steptoe & Johnson, LLP), Washington, Jared Butcher, (Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP), Washington, for appellee; Holly Pierson, (Pierson Law LLC), Atlanta, Judson Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin P.C., Brunswick, for AM.
    Case Number: A22A1172

    Court affirms dismissal of a County's complaint against streaming services for payment of franchise fees under the Consumer Choice for Television Act

  • New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC et al. v. Georgia Department Of Revenue et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-11
    Practice Area: Communications and Media | Tax
    Industry: Technology Media and Telecom
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Anthony Vroon (Law Offices of Bryan A. Vroon LLC), Atlanta; Margaret C. Wilson (Wilson Law Group LLC), Somerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Wright Banks Jr., Alex Fredrick Sponseller, Christopher M. Carr, Nancy M. Gallagher (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G1256

    The Supreme Court partially reversed and partially vacated the Court of Appeals' decision affirming the dismissal of a suit AT&T filed against the Georgia Department of Revenue to challenge the denial of a request for a tax refund.

  • WXIA-TV et al. v. State Of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-16
    Practice Area: Communications and Media | Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Ian Kyle Byrnside, Cody S. Wigington (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford Paul Bowden (Tifton Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Tifton, for appellee. Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., Allen Andre Hendrick (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for amicus appellant. John Robert Mobley, II, Michael Walter Gowen (Tifton Circuit Public Defender's Office), Tifton; Thomas MacIver Clyde, Lesli Nicole Gaither (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Lawrence Lee Bennett, Jr. (L. Lee Bennett Jr, P.C.), Atlanta; David E. Hudson (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: S17A1804

    In a high-profile murder case, the Supreme Court vacated a gag order that restrained certain classes of persons from making extrajudicial, public statements on certain subjects related to the case for so long as it remained pending, holding that the record did not reveal circumstances sufficiently exceptional to warrant such a restraint.