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  • Simmons v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2024-01-03
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jim David, (Law Office of Jim R. David), Homer, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Myers, (Myers & Stroberg), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1328

    Court affirms dismissal of a renewal car accident lawsuit due to lack of proper service of original lawsuit

  • Barrett v. Bryan

    Publication Date: 2024-01-02
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kyle Krejci, (The Law Office of Kyle Krejci, LLC), Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Rockefeller, (The Rockefeller Law Center), Warner Robins, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1644

    Court affirms denial of spouse's request for appointment of a guardian ad litem where child custody was at issue in a divorce case

  • State v. Dixon

    Publication Date: 2023-12-29
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Watkins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randal McGinley, (Newton County District Attorney’s Office), Covington, Tara Latimer, (Walton County DA’s Office), Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Boyle, Eric Crawford, (Crawford and Boyle, LLC), Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1394

    Court vacates sentence for armed robbery that deviated from both the mandatory minimum and the prosecutor's agreement because it was a reduced sentence made without consent

  • The State v. Shalgheen

    Publication Date: 2023-12-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patsy Austin-Gatson, Clifford Kurlander, (Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nicole Fegan, (Fegan Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1737

    Court reverses exclusion of other acts evidence in a rape and sexual assault criminal trial

  • Fuller Life Chiropractic Center, P.C. et al. v. Threadgill et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-27
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Heather Ware, Courtney Walker, (Hall Booth Smith, PC), Atlanta, Claire Sumner, (Lueder, Larkin & Hunter, LLC), Atlanta, Jason Deere, (Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alex Dixon, (Alex L. Dixon, P.C.), Lagrange, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1225

    Court reverses denial of a motion to dismiss a chiropractic malpractice action, concluding that the action is subject to the five-year medical malpractice statute of repose

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  • Mohr v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-26
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sydney Strickland, (Strickland & Webster, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Smith, Jared Williams, (District Attorney’s Office Augusta Judicial Circuit), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1336

    Court affirms aggravated assault conviction despite defendant's claims of evidentiary errors and ineffective assistance of counsel

  • Marques v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-22
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Antoinette Marques, Lithonia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lisa Frank, (McCalla Raymer Leibert Pierce, LLC), Roswell, Catherine Gibson, (The Gibson Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Kane St. John, (Attorney at Law), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1266

    Court affirms dismissal of most claims in a wrongful foreclosure lawsuit but reverses as to dismissal of plaintiff's claim that a successor lender failed to comply with a statutory notice requirement

  • Athens Heart Center, P.C. et al. v. Molina et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-21
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terrell Benton, Randolph Powell, Alexander Vey, (Huff Powell & Bailey), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Carter, (James E. Carter Law Firm, LLC), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1626

    Court dismisses an appeal of a multi-million dollar supersedeas bond order because it lacked jurisdiction over the order, which was not a final order in a medical malpractice case

  • Cooper v. The State

    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kaitlyn Beck, (Office of the Public Defender, Western Cir.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Wilson, Deborah Gonzalez, (Western Judicial Circuit District Attorney), Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1440

    Court affirms revocation of defendant's sentence of probation and his subsequent 18-month prison sentence, and rejects his claims of due process violations and trial court abuse of discretion

  • Savannah State University Foundation, Inc. et al. v. Lewis et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Education
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Smith, Phillip Hartley, (Attorney at Law), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashleigh Madison, (Southeast Law, LLC), Savannah, John Carson, (Phillips Carson & Phillips), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1199

    Court reverses denial of defendants' summary judgment motion in a premises liability case, finding that defendants were out-of-possession landlords that did not control or possess the property