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  • Housing Authority of the City of Augusta v. Gould

    Publication Date: 2019-05-06
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry: Federal Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Aaron Cosper, (Hull Barrett, P.C.), Augusta, Christopher Randall Jordan, (Hunter Maclean Exley & Dunn), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ira L. Foster, Kenneth Jonathan Jones, Lisa Jane Krisher, Susan Alice Reif, (Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S18G0524

    City Housing Authority Hearing Officer's Decision Was Not Quasi-Judicial Decision Under Georgia Certiorari Law

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

    Publication Date: 2018-05-04
    Practice Area: Trusts and Estates
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    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

  • Toyo Tire N. Am. Mfg. Inc. v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2016-06-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alpert, Jeffrey K. Douglass Morris Manning Martin LLP, Atlanta, and David Archer Archer Lovell PC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Kyle G. A. Wallace, Andrew J. Tuck Alston Bird LLP, Hugh B. McNatt, T. Joshua R. Archer, Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch Bingham LLP, Atlanta, Charles W. Whitney Oglethorpe Power Corp., Tucker, and Brian D. Boone Alston Bird LLP, Charlotte, NC. William Akin and S. Lester Tate Akin Tate LLC, Cartersville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S15G1804

    The plaintiffs presented sufficient evidence to survive the dant's motion for summary judgment in their lawsuit asserting claims for trespass, continuing trespass and nuisance arising out of th

  • Georgia River Network v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2014-08-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A14A0215; A14A0272; A14A0273; A14A0274

    A buffer variance was improperly issued to a County's board of commissioners allowing the County to encroach upon the 25-foot vegetative buffer the Erosion and Sedimentation Act requires in order to

  • Daniel v. Fulton Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2013-12-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bailey and Leslie Cline Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerolyn Ferrari, Diana Freeman, Matthew Welch, and Laura Lewis Fulton County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1643

    The trial court erred in applying the doctrine of judicial es in dismissing the plaintiff's claim without considering all three factors set forth in case law for determining whether judicial e