Greg Land

July 14, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The 2-to-1 opinion said a judge's 2019 preliminary injunction allowing female inmates with mental problems at the Fulton County Jail to be out of their cells four hours a day "expired long ago"; a dissent said the ruling left them exposed to a "substantial threat of irreparable injuries."

By Greg Land

6 minute read

July 13, 2021 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones said the allegations that Caterpillar agreed to pay an engineer/inventor for the use of his backup electric starter technology, then stiffed him and had him fired, were sufficiently pleaded to survive a motion to dismiss.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

July 13, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The appellate ruling said a trial judge abused her discretion by entering a directed verdict dismissing a defendant ER doctor mid-trial after she decided a plaintiffs expert was not qualified to testify about emergency medicine.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

July 09, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Bloom Parham partner and trial specialist Simon Bloom said the commercial litigation boutique weathered the pandemic well using remote technology, but now it's "time to get back cooking."

By Greg Land

7 minute read

July 08, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The Statewide Judicial Emergency expired June 30 but individual circuits have the discretion to retain suspended deadlines. Three metro circuits will continue to toll speedy trial deadlines, while others have opted to keep them in place.

By Greg Land

3 minute read

July 06, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The appeals panel said a new trial is necessary because the trial judge told the jury they could infer that a surveillance video MARTA failed to produce at trial contained evidence adverse to the transit company.

By Greg Land

6 minute read

July 02, 2021 | Daily Report Online

Lawyers for the plaintiff, who won a $55 jury award that including $50 million in punitive damages, told Cobb State Court Judge Maria Golick she should declare the state's $250,000 punitive damages cap unconstitutional.

By Greg Land

7 minute read

June 30, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The Court of Appeals panel said that a DeKalb County judge was correct to strike the responses and declare the defendant lawyer in default as a sanction, but that the jury's access to a partly redacted complaint including several claims dismissed pretrial required a new trial for damages.

By Greg Land

5 minute read

June 29, 2021 | Daily Report Online

The plaintiff, now 68, was driving a minivan when she was struck by a Georgia DOT tractor-trailer that ran a red light at a Gainesville intersection in 2018.

By Greg Land

4 minute read

June 25, 2021 | Daily Report Online

86-year-old Kap Suh was in a crosswalk near Kennesaw State University in the predawn darkness when he was struck and killed by a service van. The driver had a green light and was not charged.

By Greg Land

4 minute read