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Publication Date: 2024-07-29
Practice Area: Personal Injury | Products Liability
Industry: Consumer Products
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Gobeil
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Eason, (Barnes & Thornburg LLP), Atlanta, Dennis Ellis, Katherine Murray, Nicholas Begakis, (Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP), Los Angeles, David Clarke, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Nkosi Bey, (Bey & Associates, LLC), Atlanta, Elizabeth Stone, Darren Summerville, Alison Currie, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Tina Bullock, (Bullock Ward Mason), Acworth, Danielle Mason, (Bullock Ward Mason), Atlanta, for appellee; Mark Johnson, (Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford & Martin, P. C.), Brunswick, Lori Leskin, (Arnold & Porter), Newyork, Leah Schultz, (Arnold & Porter), Houston, Rhonda Trotter, (Arnold & Porter), Houston, Ronald Masterson, Candis Jones, (Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, Donna Welch, (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Chicago, Sierra Elizabeth, (Kirkland & Ellis LLP), Los Angeles, for other party.
Case Number: A24A0313
Court addresses statute of repose and preemption issues and affirms in part, reverses in part, and remands product liability and fraud claims in chemical hair relaxer product liability case
Publication Date: 2023-10-11
Practice Area: Products Liability
Industry: Automotive
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Colvin
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip Andrew Henderson, Michael Roger Boorman, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, D. Alan Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Timothy M Andrews, (Poole Huffman, LLC), Tucker, for appellant.
for defendant: Nathan Riggs Nicholson, Matthew Evan Cook, Kate Sievert Cook, Robert Harold Childres, III, (Cook Law Group, LLC), Gainesville, C. Tab Turner, Damon C. Singleton, (Turner & Associates, P.A.), North Little Rock, David Hogue, (Hogue Law Firm, PLLC), Fayetteville, Jonathan Andrew Parrish, (The Parrish Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Tedra L. Cannella, (Canella Snyder LLC), Atlanta, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, Madeleine Norine Simmons, (Stewart Miller Simmons), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
Case Number: S23Q0625
Reckless conduct under OCGA §51-1-11(c), as newly defined by the Court, is a standalone exception to the 10-year statute of repose in OCGA §51-1-11(b)(2).
Publication Date: 2023-02-28
Practice Area: Law Firm Client Relationships | Products Liability
Industry: Electronics
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Phipps
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Min Koo, (Infinity Trial Group, P.C.), Atlanta, Pete Werdesheim, (Werdesheim Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Christine Mast, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, Robert Thompson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee; Eric Bumgartner, (Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter Strickland & Watkins, LLP), Brunswick, for other party.
Case Number: A22A1728
Court affirms disqualification of plaintiff's attorney in a product liability case where she had previously worked for the defendant's liability insurer on similar matters
Publication Date: 2022-10-20
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Products Liability
Industry: Automotive | Consumer Products | Manufacturing
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Bessho, (Cozen and O’Connor), Atlanta, Maria Ermakova, (Cozen and O’Connor), New York, for appellant.
for defendant: Christopher Anulewicz, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Neill, (Fields Howell LLP), Atlanta, Douglas Horelick, Eric Ruben, (Clyde & Co US LLP), Miami, for appellee; Andrew Beal, Milinda Brown, (Buckley Beal LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
Case Number: A22A0726
German Auto Parts Manufacturer Did Not Purposefully Avail Itself of Georgia Laws
Publication Date: 2022-07-19
Practice Area: Evidence | Personal Injury | Products Liability
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Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Warren
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig A. Webster, (Webster Law Group, Inc.), Tifton, for appellant.
for defendant: Michael Roger Boorman, Philip Andrew Henderson, Evan E. Smith, IV, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Paul Frederich Malek, Donald Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael W. Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons, LLP), Austin, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Henry Snyder, Jr., Rory A. Weeks, (Canella Snyder LLC), Decatur, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Alyssa Bernadette Baskam, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Richard B. North, Jr., Alex G. Pisciarino, (Nelson Mullins Rilet & Scarborough LLP), Atlanta, Jonathan R. Friedman, Gary J. Toman, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
Case Number: S22Q0279
Georgia's Seatbelt Statute Did Not Preclude Vehicle Manufacturer From Presenting Evidence of Seatbelt as Part of Restraint System
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Publication Date: 2022-06-23
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
Court: Georgia Supreme Court
Judge: Justice Bethel
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
Case Number: S21G1147
Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition
Publication Date: 2021-11-30
Practice Area: Products Liability
Industry: Health Care
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Reese
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Colin Kelly, Caroline Gieser, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Roy Barnes, John Bevis, Benjamin Rosichan, (The Barnes Law Group, LLC), Marietta, Robert Cheeley, (Cheeley Law Group LLC), Alpharetta, Julia Merritt, (Attonrey at Law), Smyrna, for appellee; Eric Hawkins, David Marshall, Evelyn Davis, (Hawkins & Parnell & Young LLP), Atlanta, Caroline Tinsley, (Tucker Ellis LLP), St. Louis, Charissa Walker, (Tucker Ellis LLP), Cleveland, Chad Shultz, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Atlanta, Ann Field, (Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP), Philadelphia; Evelyn French, (Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.), Washington for AM.
Case Number: A21A0832
Court reverses denial of motions to dismiss liability complaints under the Georgia Asbestos Claims Act where plaintiffs failed to establish a prima facie case
Publication Date: 2021-10-12
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Products Liability
Industry: Consumer Products
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Freed, Charles Reed, (Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Dylan Hooper, (Morgan & Morgan), Atlanta, Harris Yegelwel, (Morgan & Morgan Atlanta, PPLC), Savannah, Thomas Seider, Celene Humphries, (Brannock Humphries & Berman), Tampa, for appellee; Homer Phillips, (The Phillips Law Firm, LLC), Marietta, for other party.
Case Number: A21A1029
Court affirms denial of out-of-state defendant's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that defendant had sufficient contacts with the State
Publication Date: 2021-08-06
Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Products Liability
Industry: Consumer Products
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Markle
Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
for defendant: N/a
Case Number: A21A0182
Georgia's general tort statute of repose bars strict liability claims brought under the Asbestos Claims Act, but defendant may be barred from that defense due to claims of fraud
Publication Date: 2020-05-06
Practice Area: Products Liability
Industry:
Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
Judge: Judge Coomer
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Lefkow, (Copeland Stair Kingma & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Tashia Zeigler, (The Zeigler Firm), Marietta, for appellee.
Case Number: A19A2219
Trial Court Properly Awarded Relief to Motor Home Buyers; Motor Home Assembler Was a 'Manufacturer' Under the Lemon Law
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