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Publication Date: 2024-09-11
Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander Dixon Revell, Harry Duff Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, James Barrett Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: William James Keogh, III, James Brian Ellington, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: S24G0336
Court vacates an injunction against a county and remands for consideration of a narrower injunction reflecting sovereign immunity, and rejects a homeowners' challenge to damages limitations
Publication Date: 2024-08-21
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cox, (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellant.
for defendant: Grant McBride, William White, Matthew Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb, & White), McDonough, for appellee.
Case Number: A22A1542
Court vacates its prior opinion and adopts Supreme Court ruling that a former teacher's breach of contract action was barred by sovereign immunity because a valid contract had not been formed
Publication Date: 2024-06-27
Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Ellington
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Grant E. McBride, Matthew Chase Collum, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White LLC), McDonough, for appellant.
for defendant: Charles E. Cox, Jr., (Charles E. Cox, Jr., LLC), Macon, for appellee; Phillip L. Hartley, Stephen Duane Pereira, (Pereira, Kirby, Kinsinger & Nguyen, LLP), Lawrenceville, for Amicus Appellant.
Case Number: S23G0791
Court reverses appellate court opinion and concludes that a former teacher's breach of contract action was barred by sovereign immunity because a valid contract had not been formed
Publication Date: 2024-06-07
Practice Area: Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Lauren Smith Bruce, Elizabeth Ahern Monyak, (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellant.
for defendant: Ray Stallings Smith, III, (Smith & Liss, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Logan B. Winkles, Jonathan David Loegel, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, Justin Thomas Golart, Zachary Mullinax, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Daniel Walter White, (Haynie, Litchfield,Crane & White, P.C.), Marietta, William A. Pinto, Jr., (Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP), Atlanta, for Neutral Amicus.
Case Number: S24A0599
Court reverses order granting declaratory relief to residents who challenged a county boundary redistricting, finding that they could not show a need for guidance for future conduct
Publication Date: 2024-04-01
Practice Area: Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice McMillian
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew (Andy) J. Welch, III, Warren Michael Tillery, Brandon Filson Palmer, Grant E. McBride, John Elwin Stell, Jr., (Smith, Welch, Webb & White LLC), McDonough, Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Angela Edwards Davis, Gregory Aaron Meyer, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, Ryan Robert Bowersox, Kevin H. Jeselnik, (Georgia Municipal Association), Atlanta, Quinton G. Washington, David N. Dreyer, (Washington Dreyer & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Keith Robert Blackwell, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Jeffrey Shelton Akins, (Bulloch County Board of Commissioners), Statesboro, Joy Lynn Edelberg, (Horne & Edelberg P.C.), Dahlonega, Patrick DeBorde Jaugstetter, Kenneth Edward Jarrard, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Lawrence Allyn Stockton, Jr., (Stockton & Stockton, LLC), Clayton, Michael Peter Ludwiczak, David D. Gottlieb, (Walker County, Georgia Government), Lafayette, Nancy Ladson Rowan, (Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP), Atlanta, Walter Gus Elliott, II, (Elliott Blackburn PC), Valdosta, Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., G. Joseph Scheuer, (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee; Ernest Ronald Bennett, Jr., (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Jody Charles Campbell, (Blum & Campbell, LLC), Peachtree Corners, Gregory David Jay, (Chandler, Britt, Jay & Beck, LLC), Buford, Robert Jackson Wilson, (Webb Tanner Powell Mertz & Wilson LLP), Lawrenceville, Kenneth James Lewis, (Lewis LAW), Winder, for other party.
Case Number: S23G0341
Court clarifies aspects of the Services Delivery Strategy Act in disputes between municipalities and a county, with specific focus on road maintenance and water utility fees for unincorporated areas
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Publication Date: 2024-03-06
Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Bethel
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Randall Fjelstul, Kathryn M. Zickert, William John Diehl, II, (Smith Gambrell Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Russell A. Britt, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Debra Lynn Blair, Hugh William Rowling, Jr., (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: S24A0309
Court affirms dismissal of a lawsuit challenging subdivision wall height rules, basing the dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds
Publication Date: 2024-01-22
Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Pipkin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Cohilas, Maggie Cropp, (Watson Spence LLP), Albany,, for appellant.
for defendant: Venterra Pollard, Corey Morgan, Camilla, for appellee; LaTonya Wiley, (Denmark Ashby LLC), Atlanta, for AM.
Case Number: A24A0389
Court affirms default judgments in a quo warranto action and denial of a contempt motion pending an appeal in a petitioner's residency eligibility challenge to district council members
Publication Date: 2023-11-27
Practice Area: Government | Health Care Law | Real Estate
Industry: Health Care | State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Fjelstul, Kathryn Zickert, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: James Carter, (James E. Carter Law Firm, LLC), Athens, Frank Jenkins, (Jenkins, Bowen & Walker, P.C.), Cartersville, for appellee.
Case Number: A23A0795
Proposed Drug Treatment Facility Would Be Continuation of Long-Time Hospital Use Already Occurring in City Location
Publication Date: 2023-11-22
Practice Area: Government
Industry: State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Hodges
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carolyn Burch, (The Burch Firm LLC), Columbus, Benjamin Vaughn, (Benjamin A. Vaughn, P.C.), Forsyth, for appellant.
for defendant: S. Tate, (Akin & Tate), Cartersville, for appellee; Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for other party.
Case Number: A23A0860
Court reverses grant of writ of mandamus in a sewer availability dispute, noting that a city manager did not abuse her discretion in denying a favorable sewer availability letter
Publication Date: 2023-11-17
Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cathey, Fort Gordon, William Keogh (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellant.
for defendant: James Trotter, (Trotter Jones, LLP), Augusta, Harry Revell, Alexander Revell, (Nicholson Revell LLP), Augusta, William Trotter, (William A. Trotter, III, P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: A23A0774
Landowner Could Not Claim Adverse Possession Where Alleged Holder of Easement Never Claimed Right to Easement
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