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  • Barnwell v. Trivedi

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chauncey Barnwell, (Chauncey Napoleon Brown Barnwell, PC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jay Eidex, (Attorney at Law), Suwanee, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1312

    Court affirms attorney fees award in favor of defendant under anti-SLAPP statute in defamation lawsuit between attorneys

  • Weaver v. Millsaps

    Publication Date: 2024-03-08
    Practice Area: Communications and Media
    Industry: Retail
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Fuller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin Showalter, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Clyde, Jeffrey Fisher, (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1234

    Court affirms dismissal of libel action under anti-SLAPP statute, emphasizing that the target of the libel action had engaged in protected speech that addressed issues of public interest

  • Barsamian v. Glynn County Board of Tax

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Real Estate | Tax
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Roberts, (Roberts Tate, LLC), St. Simons Island, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Carter, Amanda Szokoly, (Brown Reddick Bumgartner Carter Strickland & Watkins, LLP), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1344

    Court affirms inclusion of the value of memberships in a private club in property tax valuations for purposes of property tax assessments

  • Clay et al. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Christy, Scott Peters, (Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold Melton, Charles Palmer, Charles Peeler, Elizabeth Waldbeser, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1718

    Court vacates bond order in a challenge to the State's approval of a manufacturing and development project

  • The State v. Yearwood-Cabbel

    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: N/a
    for defendant: N/a
    Case Number: A23A1728

    Court affirms motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant where neither the challenger nor the evidence was named in the warrant itself

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    Authors: Hal R. Lieberman, J. Richard Supple, Jr., Harvey Prager

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  • In the Matter of Timothy Orman McCalep.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S23Y0919

    Court disbars attorney for systemic client abandonment and multiple ethics violations

  • In the Matter of Coulter Clauzell Henry, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Van Hearnburg, Jr., Paula J. Frederick, Jenny K. Mittelman, William Dallas NeSmith, (State Bar of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ivan Andrew Gustafson, (Law Office of Ivan Gustafson), Atlanta, for appellee; Kalki Yalamanchili, (Y’Chili Law LLC), Athens, for other party.
    Case Number: S24Y0195

    Court issues public reprimand to attorney for false statement to client amid personal stress

  • First Center, Inc., et al. v. Cobb County, et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-03-06
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk Randall Fjelstul, Kathryn M. Zickert, William John Diehl, II, (Smith Gambrell Russell, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell A. Britt, Pearson Kern Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Debra Lynn Blair, Hugh William Rowling, Jr., (Cobb County Attorney’s Office), Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S24A0309

    Court affirms dismissal of a lawsuit challenging subdivision wall height rules, basing the dismissal on sovereign immunity grounds

  • Tracie Underwood v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Unsigned
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristin C. Moore Waller, (Epps, Holloway, Deloach & Hoipkemier), Watkinsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Najjar, James Bradley Smith, (Piedmont Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office), Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23G0714

    Court vacates its writ of certiorari on defendant's appeal to convictions for drug trafficking and other crimes and rejects defendant's challenge to denial of her motion to suppress evidence

  • Morrell v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-03-05
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Peterson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Lock, (David T. Lock LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shalena Cook Jones, Lyle Burnham, (Chatham County District Attorney’s Office), Savannah, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Meghan Hobbs Hill, Clint Christopher Malcolm, Christopher M. Carr, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S23A1166

    Court affirms convictions for malice murder and other crimes relating to a shooting death and rejects defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and an incomplete record