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  • Amberfield Homeowners Association, Inc. v. Young et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-07-03
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A18A0391

    Homeowners Association Had Authority to Accept Easement Obligating All Members to Pay Dues to Nearby Swim and Tennis Club

  • SecureAlert, Inc. et al. v. Boggs et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-19
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Flynn (Attorney at Law), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Durham (Lee Durham LLC), Albany; Rosser Malone (Malone Law Office), Atlanta; Sidney Moore (The Moore Law Firm P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee. Kovarious Price, Garden City; Demetrious Price, Reidsville; Grace Chapman, Albany; Richard Parker, Peachtree City; Erwin Warren, Albany; Sonya Bryant, Albany; George Donaldson, Misty Haskins (Perry & Walters LLP), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A18A0045

    The trial court erred in denying electronic pretrial release and monitoring service providers' motion to dismiss plaintiffs' wrongful death and personal injury action arising after two men whom providers were responsible for monitoring via ankle bracelets allegedly shot and killed another man, because O.C.G.A. § 17-6-1.1 (i) shielded providers from civil liability.

  • Amberfield Homeowners Association, Inc. v. Young et al.

    Publication Date: 2018-06-12
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Welborn (Downey, Cleveland, Parker & Williams), Marietta; Joseph Atkins (Downey & Cleveland, LLP), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randall Lipshutz (Lipshutz Greenblatt LLC), Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0391

    Homeowners Association Had Authority to Accept Easement Obligating All Members to Pay Dues to Nearby Swim and Tennis Club

  • McConnell et al. v. Georgia Department Of Labor

    Publication Date: 2018-06-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Class Actions | Privacy
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jefferson Allen (Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, LLC), Atlanta; Scott Schweber (Schweber Green Law Group), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Samuel Olens (Attorney General), Atlanta; Kirsten Daughdril (Attorney at Law), Atlanta; Angela Cusimano (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A0655

    Suit Against State Agency For Inadvertent Disclosure of Private Information Not Barred By Sovereign Immunity

  • Canelas v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-05-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric Crawford (Crawford and Boyle LLC), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna Szabo (Solicitor-General), Lawrenceville; Samuel D'Entremont (Gwinnett County Solicitor-General's Office), Lawrenceville; Nicole Wong (Gwinnett County Solicitor's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A18A0764

    The Court affirmed defendant's convictions for DUI-less safe and DUI per se following a single-vehicle motorcycle crash but reversed his conviction for driving without a valid license, as the evidence did not support that conviction.

  • Sanchez v. Carter et al.

    Publication Date: 2017-11-03
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Hendrix (Attorney at Law), Columbus; Todd Maziar (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lauren Julian, Gary Hurst (Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Shannon Rolen (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for amicus curiae.
    Case Number: A17A1135

    Claimant was not entitled to workers' compensation dependency benefits after her live-in boyfriend, whom she was dependent on due to her own inability to work, was fatally injured at work because the two were not married, either ceremonially or by common law.