• City of Dublin School District v. MMT Holdings, LLC et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-08
    Practice Area: Civil Appeals | Civil Procedure | Tax
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Hartley, (Attorney at Law), Gainesville, Hieu Nguyen, (Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP), Gainesville, Charles Warnock, (Warnock & Mackey, LLC), Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry Lumley, (Lumley and Harper, LLC.), Macon, for appellee. Joshua Powell, (Oconee Circuit District Attorney's Office), Eastman, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0619

    School District Lacked Standing to Appeal From Trial Court's Non-Final Ruling Denying Disbursal of Tax Collection Proceeds

  • Ray v. Fulton County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-08-07
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Golomb, (Gomez & Golomb LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michelle Arrington, (Fulton County Attorney's Office), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0776

    Court Reverses Trial Court Order Granting Motion to Dismiss by Police Department Personnel Who Lied About Dismissal of Former Officer, Who Then Shot and Paralyzed Man While Working as Security Guard

  • Ware County Board of Education et al. v. Taft

    Publication Date: 2019-08-06
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation
    Industry: Education | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nathan Levy, (Levy Sibley Foreman & Speir, LLC), Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Hackel, (Attorney at Law), Waycross, for appellee. Lauren Julian Loeb, (State Board of Workers' Compensation), Atlanta, for other party.

    Case Number: A19A0617

    Court Affirms Award of Workers' Compensation That Included Portion Based on Wages Earned and Deferred During Period Preceding Injury, Rejecting Employer's Contention That Benefits Should Be Calculated Based Only on Actual Cash Received

  • City of College Park v. Clayton County et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-30
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Government | Tax
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Chief Justice Melton
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Winston A. Denmark, Steven Martin Fincher, (Fincher Denmark LLC), Jonesboro, Eugene Paden Smith, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry McKenzie Dingle, Kyler Lee Wise, (Wilson, Brock & Irby, LLC), Atlanta, Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Michael E. Hobbs, General Counsel, Thomas Monroe Mitchell, (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, Kathryn Elizabeth Baird, (Evert Weathresby Houff), Atlanta, Neal Jerome Quirk, (Quirk & Quirk, LLC), Atlanta, Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc), Atlanta, for appellee. Rusi Chandrashkhar Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S19A0460

    Government Immunity Did Not Bar City's Suit Against County In Tax Revenue Dispute

  • Odum et al. v. Harn et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-26
    Practice Area: Motor Vehicle Torts
    Industry: State and Local Government | Transportation
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Goss
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald Hallman, (Attorney at Law), Claxton, Edward Long, (Law Office of Edward L. Long, Jr.), Macon, Matthew Waters, (Attorney at Law), Wrightsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Frick, Norman Lovein, William Mann, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Brunswick, for appellee.

    Case Number: A18A0394

    On Reconsideration After Remand, Court Affirms Grant of Summary Judgment for Second Time, Holding That Recent Decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia That Had Justified Reconsideration Had Not Impacted Propriety of Earlier Decision

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  • The Atlanta Development Authority et al. v. Ansley Walk Condominium Association, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-25
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Alpert, Douglas Hance, (Morris Manning & Martin, LLP), Atlanta, Nathan Garroway, Jeffrey Zachman, (Dentons US LLP), Atlanta, Jeffrey Norman, (City of Atlanta Dept. of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Morris, Melissa Perignat, Joseph Jacobson, (Holt Ney Zatcoff & Wasserman, LLP), Atlanta, Steven Wald, Michael Smith, (Stewart, Wald & McCulley, LLC), St. Louis, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0231

    Court Affirms Trial Court's Denial of Motion to Dismiss by City of Atlanta and Related Developers Who Sought to Acquire Easement Rights from Defunct Railway Operator Through Agreement That Purported to Terminate Railway's Interest and Transfer the Easement Rights to the City

  • State Road and Tollway Authority v. Bodamer

    Publication Date: 2019-07-19
    Practice Area: Administrative Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Jacobs, William Banks, Christopher Carr, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, David Carson, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Justin O'Dell, Nicholas Booth, (O'Dell & O'Neal, P.C.), Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0489

    Court remands a highway toll fine case for further analysis of sovereign immunity issues.

  • Development Authority of Cobb County et al. v. State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2019-07-03
    Practice Area: Government | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | Retail | State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Blackwell
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Thomas Brown, Rebecca Allison Davis, Daniel M. McRae, (Seyfarth Shaw, LLP), Atlanta, William A. Holby, Letitia A. McDonald, Gabriel Krimm, (King & Spalding, LLP), Atlanta, Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Victor Reynolds, (Cobb County District Attorney's Office), Marietta, Larry Savage, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S19A0378

    Local Government Agency Had Authority to Issue Revenue Bonds to Finance Land Acquisition and Retail Development

  • Boyd et al. v. Neal

    Publication Date: 2019-07-02
    Practice Area: Employment Litigation | Insurance Litigation
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Jacobs, William Banks, Christopher Carr, Robin Leigh, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey Berhold, Peter Lampros, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Allan Parks, (Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0227

    Court Affirms Order Granting Summary Judgment to Georgia Department of Community Health in Dispute with Teachers over Change in Healthcare Plan Benefits

  • Fortner v. The State

    Publication Date: 2019-06-24
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Markle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea Conarro, (Law Office of Andrea Conarro), Dahlonega, Theodore Cassert, (Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon, LLP), Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Langley, (District Attorney), Blairsville, Francis Moran, (Lumpkin County District Attorney's Office), Dahlonega, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A0622

    Court affirms former coroner's convictions for violating his oath of office.