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  • Wohlers v. Wohlers

    Publication Date: 2024-12-12
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Delia Crouch, (Attorney at Law), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Webster, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Tyler Moffitt, (Moffitt Law, LLC), Lagrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0841

    Court affirms award of embryos to former wife in a divorce case, finding no abuse of discretion by trial court

  • Goodwin v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hawkins, (The Hawkins Law Firm), Atlanta, Noah Pines, (Ross & Pines, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carlton Hayes, David McElyea, (Cherokee County Solicitor-General’s Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0006

    Court affirms conviction for second-degree homicide by vessel, rejecting defendant's claims of ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Apple Pie Ridge Homeowners Association, Inc. v. Andrews et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-04
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brandon Wagner, (Lueder Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: P. Freed, Brian Goldberg, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0244

    Court affirms summary judgment favoring property owners in covenant dispute, deeming lots exempt from homeowners association's declaration

  • First Acceptance Insurance Company of Georgia v. Watts et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-30
    Practice Area: Insurance Litigation | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: P. Freed, Philip Savrin, (Freeman, Mathis & Gary, LLP.), Atlanta, James Finley, Amy Daugherty, (The Finley Firm, P.C.), Columbus, Daniel Hendrix, (Jackson & Hendrix, LLC), Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben Brodhead, Ashley Fournet, Michael Arndt, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Orlando Ojeda, (Ojeda Legal, LLC), Atlanta, Kenneth Bernard, (Sherrod & Bernard), Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0588

    Court dismisses an insurer's appeal to the denial of its declaratory judgment action in an insurance coverage dispute because resolution of underlying tort action had been reached

  • Fuller Life Chiropractic Center, P.C. et al. v. Threadgill et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-27
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heather Ware, Courtney Walker, (Hall Booth Smith, PC), Atlanta, Claire Sumner, (Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Atlanta, Jason Deere, (Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alex Dixon, (Alex L. Dixon, P.C.), Lagrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1225

    Court reverses denial of a motion to dismiss a chiropractic malpractice action, concluding that the action is subject to the five-year medical malpractice statute of repose

  • Smith v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Delia Crouch, (Attorney at Law), Newnan, John Cunningham, (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Desiree Duke, (The Duke Law Firm, LLC.), Carrollton, David Webster, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0896

    Court determines that a divorcing couples' prior contract as to disposition of a frozen embryo controlled over application of marital property and balancing approaches

  • Freeman v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-03-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Clark, (Clark & Towne, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Christopher DeNeve, (Gwinnett County District Attorney Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0174

    Court affirms convictions for rape, burglary, and other crimes over defendant's contentions on insufficient evidence, trial court error, and ineffective assistance

  • Rice v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-01-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Claude Kicklighter, (Claude M. Kicklighter, Jr., PC), Springfield, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Black, Keith McIntyre, Daphne Totten, (Chief Assistant District Attorney), Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1185

    Court affirmed denial of a motion to dismiss a pair of indictments on drug-related charges but remands for the State to elect which indictment to proceed under

  • Brown et al. v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2022-10-21
    Practice Area: Creditors' and Debtors' Rights | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Bost, (Greenfield, Bost & Kliros, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent Herrin, Gus Small, Benjamin Klehr, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0972

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of a trustee in a debt-collection action where appellants sought to raise a question of fact on waiver of collection efforts

  • Harvard v. The State

    Publication Date: 2022-09-27
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mickey Waller, (Mickey E. Waller, PC), Moultrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine Smith, (Assistant District Attorney), Thomasville, Bradfield Shealy, (District Attorney Southern Judicial Circuit), Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1142

    Defendant Failed to Show Prejudice From Trial Counsel's Failure to Call Expert Witness to Challenge Forensic Interviews of Victims