• Georgia CVS Pharmacy, LLC v. Carmichael

    Publication Date: 2023-08-15
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Brian David Trulock, (Magmutual Insurance Company), Atlanta, Carrie A. Moss, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, Keith Robert Blackwell, William Joseph Repko, III, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Naveen Ramachandrappa, Michael Brian Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Peter Andrew Law, Brian Colty Kaplan, (Law & Moran), Atlanta, James Alexander Rice, Jr., Andrew J. Brandt, (James A. Rice, Jr., P.C.), Atlanta, , for appellee; Judson Herben Turner, (Gilbert Harrell Sumerford & Martin, P.C.), Brunswick, Valentin Leppert, Martha Banner Banks, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, Rebecca Woods, Esther Slater McDonald, (Seyfarth Shaw LLP.), Atlanta, Adeline K Lambert, Kyle D. Hawkins, Drew F. Waldbeser, (Lehotsky Keller LLP), Atlanta, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Martin Adam Levinson, (Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP), Atlanta, Amicus Appellant; Gilbert H. Deitch, Andrew Timothy Rogers, Kara Elizabeth Phillips, William Michael D'Antignac, (Deitch & Rogers LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S22G0527

    Court rules that in premises liability cases, the reasonable foreseeability of a third-party criminal act is a factual determination linked to a proprietor's obligations

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • McEntyre v. Sam's East, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph West Dent, (Joseph W. Dent, P.C.), Albany, Alfreda Lynette Sheppard, (Watson Spence LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ernest Linwood Beaton, Howard M. Lessinger, (McLain & Merritt), Atlanta, John Holder Smith, Jr., (Young Thagard Hoffman Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, for appellee; Keith Robert Blackwell, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S21Q0909

    Tort Claim Arising From Store Employee's Failure to Properly Secure Load on Customer's Truck Subject to Ordinary Negligence Analysis

  • Junior v. Graham

    Publication Date: 2022-03-25
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Civil Procedure
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ben C. Brodhead, III, Ashley Brooke Fournet, John Wesley Ingram Nichols, (Brodhead Law, LLC), Atlanta, Michael Brian Terry, Michael Brandon Jones, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurie Webb Daniel, Matthew D. Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Joseph Robb Cruser, Raymond Russell Grant, II, (Cruser & Mitchell, LLP), Norcross, for Other Party.

    Case Number: S21G0578

    Post-Trial Attorney Fee Award For Litigation Expenses Did Not Preclude Separate Award For Failure to Accept Settlement Offer

  • Georgiacarry.Org., Inc. et al. v. Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2019-10-24
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Monroe, (John Monroe Law, PC), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Baird Carpenter, James Charles Grant, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Peter Crane Canfield, Brian Charles Lea, (Jones Day), Atlanta, Henry R. Chalmers, Andrew Clay Stevens, (Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S18G1149

    Private Lessee of Public Property May Not Exclude Persons Carrying Firearms Unless Lease Conferred Present Estate to Lessee