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Cedra Mayfield is a litigation reporter with the Daily Report, the ALM newspaper in Atlanta. She can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @cedramayfield
November 7, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"We might call this case 'the case of the forgotten word,'" argued appellee counsel Robert S. Highsmith Jr. "That word is 'competent.'"
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
November 3, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"The issues matter not only to the Omstead family, but potentially to every Georgian that buys a home, car or essentially anything in the marketplace," said plaintiff attorney Andrew J. King of Lourie, Chance, Forlines, Carter & King.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
November 2, 2023 | Daily Report Online
Before the Georgia Supreme Court in January, opposing appellate counsel will argue whether "the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority a 'carrier of passengers' subject to the duty of care" under Georgia law.
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
November 1, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"We felt good about the trial and agreed on a high/low," said plaintiff attorney J.L. King II of The King Firm in Tifton. "The high/low had a significant gap between the high number and the low number."
By Cedra Mayfield
7 minute read
October 31, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I think wrongful-death verdicts are a lot higher than they used to historically be ... but it's so dependent on [the facts of each case]," said plaintiff attorney Jeff R. Harris of Harris Lowry Manton.
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
October 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"Lawyers are going to have to start thinking about different defendants," said plaintiff attorney Amy Witherite of the Witherite Firm based in Dallas, Fort Worth, Atlanta and Chicago.
By Cedra Mayfield
8 minute read
October 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"'[L]oading' the decedent into the back of the patrol car was inherently a part of the detention process because the decedent could not have been detained inside the patrol car without having been 'loaded' inside it by the deputies," read the Supreme Court of Georgia reversal.
By Cedra Mayfield
7 minute read
October 25, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"Leaving three engineers and a high school physics teacher on the jury who understood the methodology [the accident reconstructionist] utilized, and how he arrived at his opinions turned out to be a good idea," said plaintiff attorney Jonathan P. Hayes.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
October 24, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"[W]e are confident that the Court of Appeals will properly reinstate the trial court's grant of summary judgment to Prodigies Child Care Management on remand," said appellant counsel M. Ryan Del Campo of Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske in Atlanta.
By Cedra Mayfield
6 minute read
October 23, 2023 | Daily Report Online
"I will bring to the bench twenty five years of experience trying and working cases across the state in many areas of the law," said shortlisted candidate Jesse L. Vaughn of Vaughn & Clements in Calhoun. "I have tried most every kind of case that can be tried in the Superior Courts of Georgia."
By Cedra Mayfield
5 minute read
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