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  • Dekalb County v. Stanley

    Publication Date: 2021-10-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shelley Momo, Laura Johnson, John Jones, Noah Priest-Goodsett, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robin Clark, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0820

    Court reverses denial of County's summary judgment motion on plaintiff's Disabilities Act claim and affirms dismissal of negligence claim due to sovereign immunity

  • Schock v. Holy Trinity Catholic Church et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-10-13
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graylin Ward, (Attorney at Law), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana Richens, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, Tiffany Winks, Caroline Jozefczyk, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0998

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a charitable organization on plaintiff's slip-and-fall claim, finding that the claim was barred by the Recreational Property Act

  • LG Chem, Ltd. v. Lemmerman

    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

  • Blake v. Tribe Express, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-09
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Minerva Steele, (Steele Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Appellant.
    for defendant: James Parks, (Attorney at Law), Dahlonega, Austin Perry, (McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe), Toccoa, Michael Hostetter, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, for Appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0672

    Court affirms summary judgment for employer in a dispute over whether an employee was within the scope of his employment when an accident occurred

  • Rendon-Villasana v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Erica Matos, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fani Willis, Juliana Sleeper, Richard Caplan, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta.
    Case Number: A21A1068

    Evidence Was Sufficient to Sustain Defendant's Conviction for Kidnapping Victims After He Pretended to Be an Uber Driver

  • In the Matter of Joel S. Wadsworth.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-16
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andreea N. Morrison, Paula J. Frederickm Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joel S. Wadsworth, Atlanta, for appellee; Herman Maddox Kilgore, (Kilgore & Rodriguez LLC), Marietta, Catherine H. Hicks, (Fox, Chandler, Homan, Hicks & McKLinnon), Gainesville, for other party.
    Case Number: S21Y1016

    Disbarment Appropriate Sanction Following Previously Disciplined Attorney's Abandonment of Clients in Civil Case

  • Utilicom Supply Associates, LLC v. Terra Tech, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-08-12
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Bell, Steven Vickery, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Conerly, (Attorney at Law), Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0225

    Trial Court Had Inherent Authority in its Discretion to Set Aside Default Judgment

  • Bentford v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-09
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keenen Twymon, (Law Office of the Public Defender), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Vincent Faucette, Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, for Appellee
    Case Number: A21A0333

    Court vacates and remands matter for consideration of substance of defendant's objection to other acts evidence after defendant was convicted of rape and child molestation

  • PTI Royston, LLC v. Eubanks et al.

    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

  • Mcdaniel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-08-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Williams, (Western Circuit Public Defender's Office), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Gonzalez, Victoria Goff, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Athens, Kenneth Mauldin, (District Attorney), Athens, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A0590

    Sentences Imposed for Two Counts of Child Cruelty Are Vacated and Remanded for Re-Sentencing; Trial Court Employed Improper Analysis to Answer Merger Question