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  • Doe v. Vest Monroe et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-25
    Practice Area: Class Actions
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott Bonder, Joseph White, (Fried Bonder White, LLC), Atlanta, Roy Kelly, Caitlin Derst, (Kelly & Kelly LLP), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Hayes, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Kimberly Woodland, Kathleen Broyles, (Bendin Sumrall & Ladner, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0605

    Court vacates a prior opinion and, on remand, adopts a Georgia Supreme Court opinion affirming trial court's denial of class certification in a breach of contract and negligence case

  • Rana v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Boggs
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hillm, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Pareesa Hanna Amjadi, (Fulton County District Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0705

    Court affirms convictions for murder and related offenses, rejecting defendant's claims to trial court jury instruction error as harmless or unwarranted

  • Liggins et al. v. Parkwood Living, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-11-25
    Practice Area: Contracts | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine Gibson, (The Gibson Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Clark, (Clark Caskey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A1534

    Court reverses summary judgment and damages award that had been in favor of a purchaser in a property sale contract dispute, and dismisses purchaser's cross-appeal for attorney fees

  • In the Matter of John Weimann Oxendine.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wolanda R. Shelton, Paula J. Frederick, Andreea N. Morrison, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee; Adam Marshall Hames, (The Hames Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: S25Y0045

    Court accepts attorney's petition for voluntary surrender of his law license following his felony conviction for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, effectively disbarring him

  • Gonzalez v. Miller

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Derek Bauer, Jeffrey Ronald Baxter, Tyler D. Fabbri, (Baker & Hostetler LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Edward Epps, Tyler Marquis Gaines, (Epps Holloway Deloach & Hoipkemier LLC), Watkinsville, Barry L. Fitzpatrick, (Law Office of Lane Fitzpatrick), Danielsville, for appellee; Gene Patrick Hamilton, (America First Legal Foundation), Washington, Christopher Earnest Mills, (Spero Law LLC), Charleston, for Amicus Appellee; Karl David Cooke, Jr., (Gautreaux Law LLC), Macon, Jonathan Lang Adams, (Towaliga Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Forsyth, Robert Wright Smith, Jr., (Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia), Morrow, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A0617

    Court affirms applicability of Open Records Act (ORA) to District Attorneys and denies immunity claims from DA who sought to dismiss an ORA enforcement action

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  • Steel v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-22
    Practice Area: Legal Operations
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alexander "Alex" Susor, (The Law Offices of Alex Susor, P.C.), Decatur, Colette Resnik Steel, (The Steel Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Lynsey M Barron, (Barron Law LLC), Atlanta, Leigh Ann Webster, (Strickland Webster, LLC), Atlanta, Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, (The Merchant Law Firm, P.C.), Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher M. Carr, Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Fani T. Willis, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee; Ural D.L. Glanville, (Fulton County Superior Court), Atlanta, for other party; Hunter Joseph Rodgers, Smyrna, Mazie Lynn Guertin, (Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers), Decatur, Greg Allen Willis, Jessica Jones, (Willis Law Firm), Atlanta, Amanda Rourk Clark Palmer, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb P.C.), Atlanta, Edward Donald Tolley, (Cook & Tolley LLP), Athens, Donald Franklin Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S24A1245

    Court reverses contempt finding against attorney for failure to disclose source of information, citing due process violations and finding that the trial court judge should have recused himself

  • Baker v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Faith Donnell Worley, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Fani T. Willis, Kevin Christopher Armstrong, Burke Olivia Doherty, Alex Martin Bernick, (Fulton County District Attorney’s Office), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0560

    Court affirms malice murder and firearm convictions over defendants' contentions regarding jury instructions, sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance, and cumulative error

  • Georgia Department of Public Safety v. Justice

    Publication Date: 2024-11-21
    Practice Area: Contracts | Employment Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Katherine Powers Stoff, Bryan Keith Webb, Courtney C. Poole, Christopher M. Carr, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Francis Peil, (Huggins Peil, LLC), Evans, McCracken Poston, (Law Offices of McCracken Poston), Ringgold, John Joseph Czura, (John J. Czura PC), Evans, John P. Batson, (The Law Office of John P. Batson), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G1170

    Court affirms that sovereign immunity was not waived in state trooper's breach-of-contract claims, but vacates a conclusion that Fair Labor Standards Act were part of an employment contract

  • Campbell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-11-21
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Samuel Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Beth Attaway Burton, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Christopher M. Carr, Matthew Blackwell Crowder, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Shalena Cook Jones, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Gabriel Adam Justus, (Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0578

    Court affirms multiple gang-related murder convictions despite errors in admissible evidence, deeming the errors to be harmless in view of overwhelming evidence of the defendants' guilt

  • Mohar v. Leguizamo et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-11-20
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Personal Injury
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph Villani, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacob Raehn, Sandra Cianflone, (MMPO Defense), Atlanta, for appellee; Lance Gowens, (The Gowens Law Firm, LLC), Cumming, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A1135

    Court affirms dismissal of medical malpractice lawsuit due to statute of limitation, which began when plaintiff first manifested symptoms, and rejects plaintiff's continuous treatment argument