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  • Optional Capital, Inc. v. Akin Gump Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP

    Publication Date: 2017-12-08
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Court of Appeal, 2nd District
    Judge: Justice Johnson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: B275274

    Law firms litigation-related conduct protected activity for purposes of anti-SLAPP statute

  • Kautz v. Powell

    Publication Date: 2016-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Zahra Karinshak Krevolin Horst LLC, Atlanta, Phyllis Miller, Lawrenceville, Kelly Kautz, Snellville, S. Lester Tate Akin Tate, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn Whitlock Hawkins Parnell Thackston Young LLP, Elizabeth O'Neill MARTA Law Department, Atlanta, Jody Campbell Rubin Lublin LLC, Peachtree Corner, Anthony Powell, and Robert Wilson Webb, Tanner, Powell, Mertz Wilson LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A1963

    The mayor of Snellville had the authority to terminate the employment of the city attorney as incident to her power to appoint the city attorney for an otherwise indefinite period of

  • Kautz v. Powell

    Publication Date: 2014-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Zahra Karinshak, Phyllis Miller, Lawrenceville, Kelly Kautz, Snellville, and S. Lester Tate Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kathryn Whitlock Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Elizabeth O'Neill Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, Anthony Powell, Robert Wilson Webb, Tanner, Powell, Mertz & Wilson, LLP, Lawrenceville, and Jody Campbell Rubin Lublin LLC, Peachtree Corners, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A1963

    Although the city of Snellville's charter expressly authorizes the mayor to hire the city attorney, it vests the authority to terminate such employment in the city co

  • Pounds v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2011-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Pitts Carr Carr Tabb Pope & Freeman LLP, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellants. David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Michael Weinstock, Richard V. Merritt Weinstock & Scavo PC, Dwight J. Davis King & Spalding, Leo E. Reichert, F. Barry McCabe, Atlanta, Harbert S. Gregory Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC, Robert B. Silliman Awtrey & Parker, Marietta, and S. Lester Tate III Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A0497

    Because the issue on appeal concerned uncontroverted evidence regarding the acts taken by the Board subsequent to the trial court's approving the agreement and the legal determination of whether su

  • Golden v. Vickery

    Publication Date: 2007-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Donald J. Grate and Theodore Freeman Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: John M. DeFoor II, Mark S. Gannon Savell & Williams LLP, Atlanta, and Bobby L. Cook, Summerville.
    Case Number: A07A0669

    The owner or operator of a high-voltage line has discretion under the High-voltage Safety Act, O.C.G.A. § 46-3-33, to guard against danger from accidental contract by either ' "deenergizing and grou

  • Tant v. Purdue

    Publication Date: 2006-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Lester Tate III and William M. Akin Akin & Tate, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark A. Adelman, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0821

    The individual defendant was performing a discretionary act, when he concluded from his police investigation that the plaintiff drove recklessly and under the influence on the night he was involved

  • Taylor v. Howren

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin Akin & Tate LLC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William H. Major III Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2280

    The plaintiff did not as a matter of law assume the risk of his injuries while riding a where the defendant allegedly told him the "green broke" was a "good, rideable"

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald R. Akin, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Margaret E. Bagley, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0521

    Defendants' infant daughter had multiple fractures which neither defendant could ex

  • Adcock v. Adcock

    Publication Date: 2003-02-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin Akin & Tate LLC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Crawford, Cartersville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2295

    Since the plaintiff's separation agreement with the decedent expressly barred alimony to either party, their subsequent reconciliation did not annul plaintiff's conveyance of her interest in the mar

  • Simmons v. Akin Gump, 11-4480-cv

    Publication Date: 2013-01-29
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    Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
    Judge: Before: Sack, Chin, Lohier, Jr., C. JJ. J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff-Appellant: Debra L. Raskin, Liane Tai Rice, on the brief, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., New York, N.Y.
    for defendant: For Defendant-Appellee: Christine Nicolaides Kearns, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: 11-4480-cv

    Cite as: Simmons v. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, 11-4480-cv, NYLJ 1202585977170, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided January 24, 2013)Before: Sack, Chin,