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  • Ford Motor Company v. Hill et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-12-17
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Products Liability
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Boorman, Philip Henderson, (Watson Spence LLP), Atlanta, Curtis Garrett, John Jett, Adam Charnes, Kevin Sears, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, Paul Malek, D. Thomas, (Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, LLP), Birmingham, Michael Eady, (Thompson Coe Cousins & Irons), Austin, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Butler, Daniel Philyaw, Allison Bailey, (Butler Prather LLP), Columbus, Gerald Davidson, (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, Michael Gray, (Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Moore, LLP), Perry, Michael Terry, Frank Lowrey, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, Ramsey Prather, (Butler Prather LLP), Columbus, Michael Williford, (Williford Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Kenton Coppage, (Fox Rothschild LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Judson Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin P.C.), Brunswick, Matthew Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Joshua Becker, Philip Goldberg, Cary Silverman, (Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP), Washington, Adeline Lambert, Leah Bower, Kyle Hawkins, (Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP), Atlanta, Gary Toman, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial, LLC), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0657

    Court Vacates a $1.7 Billion Verdict in Ford Product Liability Case and Orders New Trial

  • City of Milton v. Chang et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-10-11
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Key, (J. Scott Key, LLC), Madison, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP), Atlanta, Christopher Simon, Tyler Bridgers, (The Simon Law Frim PC), Atlanta, Jed Manton, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Atlanta, Madeline McNeeley, (Harris Lowry Manton LLP), Brookhaven, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0802

    Court affirms $30 million verdict against the City of Milton in fatal accident case, rejecting City's claims of sovereign immunity, and orders pre-judgment interest and nunc pro tunc judgment

  • Wierson v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-08-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Rubin, (Peters, Rubin & Sheffield), Decatur, Kristen Novay, (Garland, Samuel and Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Thomas Williams, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office), Decatur, for appellee; Justin Moore, (Aequitas Legal Services, LLC), Atlanta, Amanda Walker, (Office of the Public Defender, Eastern Judicial Circuit), Savannah, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0241

    Court affirms ruling allowing insanity defense and reverses an order allowing evidence of compliance with prescription medication in a vehicular homicide case

  • Montiel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-31
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica Towne, (Clark & Towne, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny Penn, Sandra Partridge, (GA Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit), Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0600

    Court affirms burglary conviction and admissibility of custodial statement despite defendant's contentions of alleged Interference with right to counsel

  • Tate-Jesurum v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-08-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter Rodgers, (J. Ryan Brown Law, LLC), Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony Williams, Matthew Rollins, (Paulding Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Dallas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0559

    Court affirms denial of a defendant's general demurrer and plea in bar to charges of methamphetamine possession

  • Smaha et al. v. The Medical Center of Central Georgia, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-31
    Practice Area: Expert Witnesses | Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Clay, (Pratt Clay, LLC), Atlanta, Wesley Taulbee, (Clay Taulbee & Myers, LLC), Statesboro, James Myers, (Insley & Race LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jo Jagor, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, Roy Meeks, Atlanta, Amanda Speier, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0267

    Court affirms dismissal of plaintiff's expert in a medical malpractice case because he had no relevant experience to qualify as an expert on the nursing standard of care

  • Lang Enterprises Ltd. Co. d/b/a Lang Restoration & Construction v. Alcue Properties & Interiors, Inc. d/b/a Primrose School of Lawrenceville North.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-19
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Natalie Mark, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, John Rezac, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon Wagner, (Lueder Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0087

    Court reverses trial court ruling that vacated an arbitration award in favor of a contractor because there was no evidence that the arbitrator disregarded the law

  • Rijal v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-06-13
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Creal, (Attorney at Law), Forest Park, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Finch, (Solicitor General of Forsyth County), Cumming, Daniel Sanmiguel, (Dekalb County Solicitor’s Office), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0357

    Court affirms convictions for DUI and passing an emergency vehicle over defendant's challenge to sufficiency of evidence and claims of trial court error

  • Blackburne & Sons Realty Capital Corporation v. Hughes Construction, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-06-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Investments and Investment Advisory
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heather Brown, (Brown Law, LLC), Roswell, Jill Deutchman, (Deutchman Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Trant, (Coweta County Solicitor’s Office), Newnan, Michael Robl, Maxwell Bowen, (Robl Law Group LLC), Tucker, Garrett Nail, (Portnoy Garner & Nail LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0002

    Court vacates orders on summary judgment and remands for the trial court to first determine whether plaintiff may add real parties in interest to a complaint for fraud

  • Valade v. Meriwether & Tharp, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-25
    Practice Area: Privacy
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Neuberger, (Neuberger Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christine Mast, Zachary Lewis, (Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Brynda Insley, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Aaron Strimban, Robert Tidwell, (Tidwell & Strimban, LLC), Woodstock, John Burns, (Burns Law Group, PC), Canton, for other party.
    Case Number: A22A0330

    Court reverses summary judgment that had been against plaintiff's invasion of privacy claim, finding that the claim was not barred by the abusive litigation statute