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  • Smith v. Laney et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-04-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Michael Braun, (Law Office of Michael R. Braun), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Calanit Hayes, Rakhi McNeill, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, William Myers, (Myers & Stroberg), Gainesville, Jason Stewart, (Dennis, Corry, Smith, & Dixon LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1736

    Court affirms jury verdict for defendants in motor vehicle collision case over defendant's arguments that two defendants should not be considered separate entities

  • Sambou v. The State

    Publication Date: 2021-03-18
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joyette Holmes, Marietta, John Edwards, (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Lindsay Raynor, (Douglas County Solicitor General's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1764

    Court affirms convictions for identity fraud and forgery over defendant's contentions of trial court error and challenges to admission of evidence.

  • Cleveland v. Team RTR2, LLC

    Publication Date: 2021-03-05
    Practice Area: Business Torts
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Matthew Stoddard, Keith Evra, (The Stoddard Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Forestner, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Walter Yarbrough, (Fain, Major & Brennan, PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A2080

    Sexual Assault of a Spa Customer by a Massage Therapist Was Reasonably Foreseeable; Spa Had Superior Knowledge of the Risk of Harm

  • Beyond Meat, Inc. v. Don Lee Farms, A Division of Goodman Food Products, et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-01-27
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Contractual Disputes
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sada Baby, Halsey Knapp, (Krevolin & Horst LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Yeung, (Covington & Burling LLP), New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Clarke, Michael Ross, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Daniel Platt, Edward Lee, (Loeb & Loeb LLP), Los Angeles, Michael King, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1131

    Court vacates denial of a motion for a protective order and/or to quash a subpoena and remands case for reconsideration solely in view of the record before the trial court

  • Hagan et al. v. Hagan

    Publication Date: 2020-10-19
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Hagan, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Renee Neary, (Mayoue Gray Eittreim, PC), Atlanta, John Collar, (Boyd, Collar Nolen & Tuggle, LLC), Atlanta, Douglas Scribner, William Repko, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eugene Chambers, Paul Duckworth, (Eugene P. Chambers, III, P.C.), Atlanta, Joseph Sullivan, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1480

    Evidence Established Transfer of Ownership of Life Insurance Policy

  • Gathers v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard Anderson, (Law Office of Howard W. Anderson, III, LLC), Pendleton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Henry Syms, (Office of the District Attorney), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0097

    Court affirms defendant's conviction for child molestation and sentencing as a recidivist.

  • In Re Haney

    Publication Date: 2020-07-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, Kayci Timmons, (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, Alan Tucker, (Alan David Tucker, Esq. P.C.), Brunswick, JIM WRIGHT, (District Attorney Henry County Courthouse), McDonough, Adrienne Browning, (Adrienne Browning, Attorney at Law, P.C.), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Ekonomou, Atlanta, Jacquelyn Johnson, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee. Stephen Tillman, (Brunswick Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Office), Brunswick, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A0472

    Police Officer Lacked Standing to Challenge Trial Court's Brady Ruling

  • Countryman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noah Pines, (Ross & Pines), Atlanta, Andrew Fleischman, (Ross & Pines), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Noah Pines, Stephanie Adrean, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, John Melvin, (District Attorney), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0556

    Computer Theft Was First Discovered When Victim Compared Already-Existing Computer Records to Separate Document

  • Hojeij Branded Foods, LLC v. Clayton County, Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-06-24
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Colvin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Wright, Alla Raykin, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack Hancock, Arash Sabzevari, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Forest Park, Winston Denmark, Leonid Felgin, Danielle Matricardi, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Atlanta, Janet Scott, (Seay/Felton LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0103

    Court reverses dismissal of taxpayer's lawsuit for a property tax refund because that action was initiated within the statute of limitations under an amended statute

  • Leslie v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Brandenburg, Leigh Schrope, (Law Firm of Shein & Brandenburg), Atlanta, Marcia Shein, (Law Office of Marcia G. Shein, P.C.), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ryan Leonard, Sean Garrett, (Douglas County District Attorney's Office), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0556

    Court affirms defendant's kidnapping and armed robbery convictions over multiple contentions of error