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  • Premier Pediatric Providers, LLC v. Kennesaw Pediatrics, P. C.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick Ferrand, Roger Harris, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David Michell, James Sherman, (Stanley, Esrey & Buckley, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0857

    Court reverses denial of a motion to dismiss an appeal and finds because appellant's failure to timely file a transcript was unreasonable and inexcusable

  • Doe v. Saint Joseph's Catholic Church et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-14
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Non-Profit
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Darren Penn, Alexandra Cole, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Michael Terry, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, Jane Vincent, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward Wasmuth, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell), Atlanta, for appellee; Emily Hetherington, (Georgia Law Center), Atlanta, Melina Lewis, (Georgia Legal Services Program), Athens, for AM.
    Case Number: A20A0784

    Court reverses dismissal of sexual abuse claims against a Church because plaintiff may be able to show facts to justify tolling of the limitations under OCGA §9-3-96

  • Rosser v. Lynn et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Lefco, (Law Offices Stanley M. Lefco, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Veronica Hoffler, Tierra Whitlock, (Law Office of Andrews an Maganiello), Tucker, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0761

    Court vacates dismissal of a personal injury action that was dismissed for lack of service and remands for consideration of plaintiff's motion for service by publication

  • Georgia Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc. et al. v. Downs et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker Chandler, (Office of the Public Defender), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Buckley, Taylor Hensel, (Buckley Christopher, P.C.), Atlanta, Bennett Bryan; Laura Johnson, (DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0663

    Court affirms dismissal of a challenge to the removal of a Confederate monument from a public setting because plaintiffs lacked standing to sue

  • Coe et al. v. Proskauer Rose, LLP

    Publication Date: 2022-10-04
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Legal Malpractice | Tax
    Industry: Accounting | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Jeven Robinson Sloan, (Loewinsohn Deary Simon Ray LLP), Dallas, Harry W. MacDougald, (Caldwell, Carlson, Elliott & Deloach, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold David Melton, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Mark G. Trigg, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Shari Lynn Klevens, (Dentons US LLP), Washington, David M. Lederkramer, (Proskauer Rose), New York Lisa S. Blatt, (Williams & Connolly LLP), Washington, for appellee; Johannes S. Kingma, Jeffrey Charles Hoffmeyer, (Stites & Harbison PLLC), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1250

    Material Factual Dispute Existed as to When Clients Learned Law Firm Was Not Independent of Client's Accounting Firm

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  • Hall et al. v. Davis Lawn Care Service, Inc., et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-13
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Pinson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Madden Cork, (Law Offices of Charles M. Cork, III), Decatur, Trent B. Speckhals, (Speckhals Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Holder Smith, Jr., William Justin Purvis, (Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Smith & Lawrence), Valdosta, Thomas Packer Willingham, Mary Leah Miller, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, PC), Atlanta, William U. Norwood, (Attorney at Law), Thomasville, Yehuda Smolar, (Yes Law Group LLC), Atlanta, Richard K. Hines, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Raleigh Willis Rollins, (Alexander & Vann, LLP), Thomasville, for appellee; Roy M. Sobelson, Atlanta, Melinda Cole Pillow, (Law Office of Melinda C. Pillow, LLC), Decatur, Brian Michael Deutsch, (McCurdy & Candler, LLC), Decatur, Linda S. Pacer, (Pacer Law LLC), Alpharetta, Kevin Timothy O’Sullivan, (Cohen, Pollock, Merlin Turner, P.C.), Atlanta, Millie Baumbusch, (Baumbusch Law, LLC), Atlanta, Allison L. Byrd, (Morgan & Disalvo, P.C.), Alpharetta, Ruthann P. Lacey, (Law Office Of Ruthann P. Lacey, P.C.), Atlanta, Deana M. Spencer, (Spencer Law, LLC), Lawrenceville, David Paul Pollan, (The Pollan Law FIRM), Atlanta, Sarah Elizabeth Siedentopf, (Siedentopf LAW), Atlanta, Hamida Jackson-Little, (Law Offices of HJ Little), Alpharetta, Diane Beth Weinberg, (Weinberg Elder Law, LLC), Sandy Springs, Mark Allen Crigler Robinson, (Robinson & Blazer, LLP), Decatur, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: s22g0019

    Conservator Did Not Forfeit Exclusive Power to Participate in Litigation on Behalf of Minor Children

  • Bell v. Hargrove

    Publication Date: 2022-08-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Judges
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (John Monroe Law, P.C.), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bennett Bryan, Omari Crawford, (The DeKalb County Law Department), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A1061

    Court reverses order that affirmed denial of an applicant's weapons carry license, finding that the probate judge did not have statutory authority to deny the application

  • Robinson v. Citi Bank, N.A. Successor By Merger To Citibank (South Dakota), N.A.

    Publication Date: 2022-08-25
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie Pineyro, (Jones & Walden LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklyn LaVrar, (Ras Lavrar LLC), Plantation, Krystal Nethken, (Ras Lavrar LLC), Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1087

    Court affirms revival of dormant foreign judgment, concluding that petitioner had filed its revival action within the allowed time for domestication and revival

  • O'Neill v. Hairston

    Publication Date: 2022-08-17
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shane Geeter, (Attorney at Law), Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Bloodworth, (Bush, Crowley, Leverett & Leggett, LLP), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0811

    Unresolved Factual Issue as to Location of Boundary Line Between Adjacent Properties Precluded Partial Summary Judgment

  • Slosberg v. Giller, et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-29
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick Skip Sugarman, Matthew Greer Hawk, (Sugarman Law, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tyler Charles Dixon, (Raiford & Dixon, LLC), Atlanta, Leah Ward Sears, Sasha Nina Greenberg, (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee; Timothy Kyle King, (Hodges, McEachern & King), Peachtree City, Nikola R. Djuric, (Djuric Spratt P.A.), Atlanta for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: S21G1226

    No-Contest Clause Did Not Bar Undue-Influence Claim Against Trust Instrument