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  • Schaffeld v. Schaffeld

    Publication Date: 2019-04-30
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Cunningham, (Attorney At Law), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifton Patty, (Attorney At Law), Ringgold, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1947

    Former spouse was not in a meretricious relationship and was entitled to continue to receive alimony

  • Hewlett v. Hewlett et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-04-19
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Harris, (Stephen H. Harris, Attorney at Law, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: George Waters, (Attorney At Law), Richmond Hill, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1821

    Court reverses parental rights termination order

  • Web IV, LLC et al. v. Samples Construction, LLC

    Publication Date: 2019-03-27
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes | Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin O'Dell, Nicholas Booth, (O'Dell & O'Neal, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Chapman, G. Land, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Laura Rollins, (Dyer & Rusbridge PC), Canton, Cory Close, (Busch Reed & Jones, P.C.), Marietta, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A1791

    Court Affirms Trial Court Order Compelling Arbitration Over Objection That Movant Had Waived Right to Compel Arbitration by Failing to Comply with Industry-Standard Dispute Resolution Procedures

  • Unique Auto Sales, LLC et al. v. Dunwody Insurance Agency et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-03-14
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge BARNES
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reuben Akin, Macon, Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Jones, Ernest Satterfield, (Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1915

    No summary judgment on an insurance coverage matter where the full insurance policy is not in the record

  • York et al. v. Athens College of Ministry, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-11-29
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Ellison, (Cowsert Heath, LLP), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Warnes, (Timmons Warnes, LLP), Athens, Thomas Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee. Brian Daughdrill, (Roberts & Daughdrill, P.C.), Atlanta, for amicus curiae.
    Case Number: A18A0934

    Recipient of special use building permit waived its right to object to a resident's challenge to the issuance of that permit.

  • Glover v. Georgia Power Company

    Publication Date: 2018-10-11
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: Energy
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jesse Bowles, (Attorney at Law), Cuthbert, Joseph Durham, Donald Lee, (Lee Durham, LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hugh McNatt, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Vidalia, George Carley, (Carley, Gregory & Gregory) Decatur, for appellee. Raleigh Rollins, (Alexander & Vann LLP), Thomasville, for Other Party.
    Case Number: A18A1005

    Court Affirms Summary Judgment in Favor of Power Company Facing Allegations That It Failed to Provide Sufficient Lighting on Highway and Caused Fatal Accident

  • McKissic v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-09-19
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Walker, (Appellate Division-GPDC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia Slater, Frederick Lewis, Raymond Tillery, (Office of the District Attorney - Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A1393

    Court Affirms Conviction of Child Sex Abuser

  • Maddox v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-08-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: E-Commerce
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ray Gary (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Edwards (District Attorney's Office, Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta; D. Reynolds (District Attorney), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0659

    Conviction for Distributing Child Pornography Using File Sharing Program Is Upheld

  • Rollins et al. v. LOR, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Mixson, Timothy Rigsbee, Robert Ashe, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta; Thomas Rafferty, Antony Ryan, Samira Shah (Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP), New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan Bakowski, James Lamberth, William Withrow (Troutman Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0638

    Family Business Trustees' Claims Against Business Managers Were All Either Time-Barred or Derivative in Nature

  • Jenifer Duncan et al. v. Olga Rawls et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-05-04
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Foust, Allan Parks, David Walbert (Parks, Chesin & Walbert P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Balser, John Toro, Letitia McDonald, Julia Barrett (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A2052

    Georgia Law Does Not Recognize Probable Cause Exception to Enforcement of No-Contest Provisionss in Trusts