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  • City of Atlanta et al. v. Atlanta Independent School System

    Publication Date: 2020-02-28
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Government
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Benham
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmet J. Bondurant, II, David Gregory Hill Brackett Robert Lawrence Ashe, III, (Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey Spencer Haymore, (Dillard Sellers, LLC), Atlanta, Susan Marie Garrett, Nina Hickson, (City of Atlanta Law Department), Atlanta, Robert Sparks Highsmith, Jr., (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, Joseph Daniel Young, (Joseph D. Young, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard H. Sinkfield, Michael L. Eber, Rachel Mary Bishop, Cameron Blaine Roberts, (Rogers & Hardin LLP), Atlanta, appellee.
    Case Number: S19A1203

    Dispute Between City of Atlanta and Atlanta School System Not Ripe For Review

  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Buho et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-02-07
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent Hyman, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric Jensen, (Jensen Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2396

    MARTA Act mandated that Joint-Tortfeasor Personal Injury Suit Against MARTA be Heard by Fulton County Superior Court

  • Kinslow v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-02-04
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Cybersecurity | Internet Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George Law, (Whitmer and Law), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, Ryan Fisher, (Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2460

    Employee's Unapproved Transfer of Supervisor's Incoming Work Emails to Employee's Own Personal Email Address Constituted Computer Trespass

  • Gould v. Housing Authority of the City of Augusta

    Publication Date: 2020-01-29
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phyllis Holmen, Lisa Krisher, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Susan Reif, David Bartholomew, (Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Cosper, (Hull Towill Norman Barrett & Salley P.C.), Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A17A0902

    Decisions by Housing Authority's hearing officer are not quasi-judicial and are therefore not appealable with a writ to the superior court.

  • Barrow v. Dunn et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-01-10
    Practice Area: Environmental Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Schwartz, (Jon L. Schwartz, Attorney at Law, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Isaac Byrd, (Deputy Attorney General), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, (Attorney General), Atlanta, Suzanne Osborne, (Department of Law), Atlanta, John Hennelly, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, James Coots, (Senior Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee. Ray Smith, (Attorney at Law), Richmond Hill, for other party.
    Case Number: A17A1385

    Georgia's environmental laws and regulations do not require an antidegradation analysis for issuance of permits for nonpoint source discharges of wastewater

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  • Georgia Lottery Corporation v. Vasaya

    Publication Date: 2019-12-30
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Jacobs, William Banks, Christopher Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, Alkesh Patel, David Carson, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Hughes, (Wimberly & Lawson, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1625

    Breach of contract claims over Georgia Lottery's failure to pay lottery winnings were not barred by sovereign immunity

  • Martin et al. v. Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-20
    Practice Area: Election and Political Law | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Warren
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce Perrin Brown, (Bruce P. Brown Law LLC), Atlanta, Russell Todd Abney, Blake Todd Tanase, (Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough), Sandy Springs, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joshua Barrett Belinfante, Vincent Robert Russo, Jr., Carey Allen Miller, Alexander Fraser Denton, (Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC), Atlanta, Annette M. Cowart, Russell David Willard, Christopher M. Carr, Andrew Alan Pinson, (Department of Law), Atlanta, Patrise M. Perkins-Hooker, Kaye Woodard Burwell, Cheryl Melissa Ann Ringer, David Robert Lowman, (Office of the Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, Richard A. Carothers, Brian Richard Dempsey, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Bryan Paul Tyson, Frank B. Strickland, Bryan Francis Jacoutot, Bryan Paul Tyson, (Taylor English Duma LLP), Atlanta, Edward H. Lindsey, Jr., (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S19A0769

    Parties Challenging 2018 Election Failed to Provide Sufficient Evidence to Support Their Claim That Defects in Electronic Voting Machines Cast Doubt on Election Results

  • Board of Trustees of Georgia Military College v. O'Donnell

    Publication Date: 2019-12-10
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Bunner, Christopher Carr, Kathleen Pacious, Loretta Pinkston-Pope, (Assistant Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Caleb Walker, (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon, Katherine McArthur, Jessica Edmonds, (McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1312

    State military college had sovereign immunity to tort claims brought by a student under the discretionary function exception to waiver of immunity

  • City of Albany v. Dougherty County

    Publication Date: 2019-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Government | Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Coomer
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Sweat, (Gardner, Willis, Sweat & Handelman, LLP), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Lewis, Lillian Bittick, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, for appellee. Jon-Selby Hawk, (Jon R. Hawk Sr. LLC), Macon, Hugh Morris, (Attorney at Law), Albany, for other party.
    Case Number: A19A1406

    Trial Court Properly Rejected City's Sovereign Immunity Claim in its Motion to Dismiss County's Cross-Claim For Contractual Indemnity

  • City of Alpharetta v. Hamby et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-12-04
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sara Brochstein, Dana Maine, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis Cathey, Rebecca Payne, (Cathey & Strain, LLC), Cornelia, Thomas Dowdy, (Attorney at Law), Cornelia, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A0856

    Court reversed personal injury verdict and rules in favor of a City over an injured party