• Mt. Nebo Baptist Life Center, Inc. v. Abbey Lending, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Freeman, Chelsea Freeman Dease, Bobby Hill, (Johnson & Freeman, LLC), Union City, Gregory Taube, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarbrough, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Graham, (Graham Legal, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Cameron, (Cameron Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0291

    Court affirms default judgment in dispossessory action and denies lessee's motion to open default, concluding that dispossessory statutes are clear in requiring a response in 7 days

  • Buchanan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean Lowe, (Assistant Public Defender), Ringgold, Jonathan Hamrick, (Cox Byington Twyman LLP), Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, Natalee Staats, (Assistant District Attorney - Floyd County), Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A24A0475

    Court reverses sex offender registration conviction because the State failed to present sufficient evidence of the time frame for the violation

  • Fun Spot America of Atlanta, Inc. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2024-04-23
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: Entertainment and Leisure
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca Strickland, Kelly Chartash, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Je'Nita Lane, (The J. Lane Law Group, P.C.), Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1463

    Court reverses denial of amusement park's motion for summary judgment in a personal injury case, finding that park patron assumed the risk of injury in a go-kart collision incident

  • Green v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathleen Anderson, (Attorney at Law), Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, (District Attorney), Jefferson, Andrew Brill, (Barrow County District Attorney’s Office), Winder, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1683

    Court affirms defendant's conviction for attempted kidnapping but reverses convictions for attempt to entice a child and simple assault due to insufficient evidence

  • Logan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Withers, (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew Breedon, Daphne Totten, (Ogeechee Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Springfield, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1661

    Court affirms re-indictment of pharmacist on drug charges, denying his challenges based on double jeopardy and statute of limitations, and rejecting claims of prosecutorial misconduct

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  • Olsen v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Clark Palmer, Donald Samuel, (Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Cross, Sherry Boston, (DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office DeKalb County Courthouse), Decatur, Lenny Krick, (Assistant District Attorney-Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit), Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1506

    Court reverses police officer's conviction related to use of force policy in a case involving a fatal shooting, but notes that officer may be retried for aggravated assault

  • Marquita Jordan v. H. J. Russell & Company et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-04-12
    Practice Area: Landlord Tenant Law | Premises Liability
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, Andrew Lynch, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Skyler McDonald, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Tampa, for appellee; Jackson Dial, Shanndor McClain, (Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial LLC), Atlanta, Grant Schnell, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A23A1387

    Court rules in favor of apartment owners in fatal shooting case, applying landlord-tenant statute because shooting occurred inside an apartment over which defendants had relinquished possession

  • The State v. Huynh

    Publication Date: 2024-02-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Brooks, (Office of the Solicitor General of Clayton County), Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nam Nguyen, (Nguyen & Pham, LLC), Norcross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1326

    Court dismisses State's appeal to trial court's acquittal of a defendant who had been charged with an improper lane change, citing its lack of jurisdiction over the appeal

  • Sullivan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-01-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Withers, (Withers Law Firm PC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian Heap, Daphne Totten, (District Attorney’s Office, Ogeechee Judicial Circuit), Springfield, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1600

    Court reverses revocation of suspended sentence and remands for resentencing because defendant's failure to attend drug treatment was a violation of a general and not a special condition

  • Freedom Heights, LP v. Lowndes County Board of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2023-11-27
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Rickman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Preston, Kayla Barnes, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Elliott, William Elliott, (Elliott Blackburn & Gooding PC), Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1103

    Court affirms partial summary judgment in favor of county tax assessors in valuation dispute over rent-restricted apartment complex, finding that application of an income approach was inapplicable