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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

  • In the Interest of K. M., a child.

    Publication Date: 2018-04-09
    Practice Area: Evidence | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Ashmore (The Law Office of Lee S. Ashmore), Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Ashe (Attorney at Law), Woodbine, for appellee. Miles Hendrix (Attorney at Law), Kingsland, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A1747

    Juvenile Court Should Have Applied Clear and Convincing Standard in Determining Whether to Terminate Guardianship of Minor With Non-Parents

  • Viad Corp v. United States Steel Corporation

    Publication Date: 2018-02-08
    Practice Area: Environmental Law | Toxic Torts
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alston & Bird, Daniel F. Diffley, Kyle G. A. Wallace, Annalise K. Peters; Moore Clarke DuVall & Rodgers, James H. Moore III, Matthew D. DeMott, for appellant.
    for defendant: Watson Spence, Louis E. Hatcher, Alfreda L. Sheppard, F. Faison Middleton IV, Christopher L. Foreman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0937

    Plaintiff could not claim indemnity for its own negligence after State ordered it and its predecessor to pay for environmental remediation of certain property because the assumption agreement did not expressly, plainly, clearly and unequivocally provide that predecessor would indemnify plaintiff to that extent; accordingly, the trial court erred in granting plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in its suit for indemnification.

  • Avery et al. v. Paulding County Airport Authority et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Transportation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles McKnight, Alison Ballard (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Baker (Miller & Martin PLLC), Atlanta; J. Davis, Lee Carter (Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP), Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0849

    The Court partially reversed the dismissal of three related declaratory judgment actions arising out of the efforts of a county and a county airport authority to apply for a commercial Airport Operating Certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration.

  • 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

  • City of Atlanta v. Mitcham

    Publication Date: 2015-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cathy Hampton, City Attorney, and Laura S. Burton City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Amicus Appellant: Joseph D. McGovern Dubberly McGovern, Glennville, Richard K. Strickland, and Paul M. Scott Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick. Charles H. McAleer The McAleer Law Firm PC, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S14G0619

    Sovereign immunity barred the plaintiff's negligence claims against the defendant city and its chief of police based on the failure to provide medical care while he was in cu