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  • McBrayer et al. v. Scarbrough

    Publication Date: 2022-06-28
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig Webster, (Attorney at Law), Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Waymire, Terry Williams, (Attorney at Law), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0002

    Court affirms summary judgment for County Sheriff in a wrongful death matter, finding that County did not waive sovereign immunity over plaintiff's claim

  • General Motors, LLC v. Buchanan et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-06-23
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection | Products Liability | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Automotive | Manufacturing
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Bethel
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Robert Blackwell, Cari Katrice Dawson, Jamie S. George, (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Webb Daniel, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Atlanta, Charles B. Marsh, Myrece R. Johnson, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP), Atlanta, Brian Patrick Kappel, Michael Lester Bell, Rachel McCulley Lary, Christopher Cameron Yearout, (Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC), Birmingham, Jonathan Bradley Spital, (Holland & Knight LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Alan Dawson, Lance Alan Cooper, (The Cooper Firm), Marietta, James Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Green Cross, (The Cross Firm, LLC), Decatur, for appellee; Richard B. North, Jr., Christopher Shaun Polston, Steven H. Campbell, (Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP), Atlanta, Nicole A. Saharsky, Minh Nguyen-Dang, (Mayer Brown LLP), Washington, Charles Haake, David Edward Bright, (Alliance Of Automobile Manufacturers), Washington, Alexander Bunnen Feinberg, Mary Kathryn Mangan, John Cowles Neiman, Jr., (Maynard Cooper & Gale P.C.), Birmingham, Leah Ward Sears, Edward H. Wasmuth, Jr., (Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP), Atlanta, William V. Custer, IV, Christian James Bromley, (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP), Atlanta, Rocco Eugene Testani, Lee Alexander Peifer, (Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP), Atlanta, Philip S. Goldberg, Anna Sumner Pieschel, (Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP), Atlanta, Andrew Thomas Bayman, Chilton D. Varner, Billie Barker Pritchard, Paul Alessio Mezzina, (King & Spalding LLP), Washington, Christopher M. Carr, Drew F. Waldbeser, Stephen John Petrany, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant; Darren Wade Penn, Kevin M. Ketner, (Penn Law LLC), Atlanta, Jonathan Andrew Pope, (Hasty Pope Davies, LLP), Gainesville, Nkosi John Bey, (American Association for Justice), Washington, Christopher Dean Glover, (Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.), Atlanta, Lindsay Alexandra Forlines, (Forlines Law, LLC), Atlanta, Stephen Roberts Chance, (Watkins, Lourie, Roll & Chance, PC.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S21G1147

    Corporate Defendant Had Burden of Persuasion to Show High-Ranking Executive Was Entitled to Protection From Deposition

  • Somani et al. v. Cannon et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Trusts and Estates | Wrongful Death
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Blair, Austin Hammock, (Levy Sibley Foreman & Spier LLC), Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Carter, Kimberly Higginbotham, (The Gordon Law Firm, Attorneys at Law, LLC), Hartwell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0536

    Minor's Wrongful Death Claims Were Not Time-Barred Following Earlier Law Suits

  • Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc. et al. v. Metcalf et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-21
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bailey, Randolph Powell, Lindsey Costakos, (Huff, Powell & Bailey, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Lewis, (Lewis & Murphy, LLP), Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0149

    Court vacates $3 million jury verdict in a wrongful death medical malpractice action because plaintiffs did not have standing to bring a wrongful death action

  • Summerour et al. v. City of Monroe et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-04-12
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig Jones, (Craig T. Jones, PC), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sara Brochstein, Dana Maine, (Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1561

    Court affirms dismissal on the pleadings of wrongful death action on grounds of sovereign immunity. but vacates and remands as to official immunity

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  • Williams v. City of Tybee Island

    Publication Date: 2022-03-18
    Practice Area: Government | Personal Injury | Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Doyle
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Phillips, (Phillips & Carson), Savannah, Jonathan Phillips, (Chatham County Office of the District Attorney), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward Hughes, (Callaway, Braun, Riddle & Hughes, PC), Savannah, Benjamin Perkins, Brian Griffin, (Oliver Maner LLP), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1780

    Teenager Assumed Risk of Drowning by Going Into Ocean at Public Beach

  • Connell et al. v. Hamon, As Surviving Child of James Isaac Dickens, Jr., Deceased

    Publication Date: 2021-11-16
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alphonso Howell, Gregory Talley, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Howell, (Attorney at Law), Moultrie, Charles Cork, (Attorney at Law), Decatur, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0925

    Court reverses denial of defendant's motion on the pleadings in a wrongful death case where plaintiff had no standing to bring a wrongful death claim

  • Smith et al. v. City of Roswell et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-11-11
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Jackson, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sun Choy, Wesley Jackson, (Freeman Mathis Gary, LLP), Atlanta, Patrick Hannon, (Hall & Lampros LLP), Atlanta, Peter Lampros, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Hilliard Castilla, Matthew Hurst, (Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout), Atlanta, Detriss Thomas, Patrick O'Connor, Patrise Perkins-Hooker, Denval Stewart, Joey Logan-Pugh, (Fulton County Office of the County Attorney), Atlanta, Emily Hirst, (Georgia Municipal Association), Atlanta, Jacquelyn Smith, (Attorney at Law), Alpharetta, Matthew Moffett, Marie Wilcox, Jordan Raymond, (Gray Rust St Amand Moffett & Brieske LLP), Atlanta, Jennifer Nichols, Maren Cave, (Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, LLP), Atlanta, Charles Medlin, (Bovis, Kyle & Burch, LLC), Atlanta, Winfield Pollidore, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0789

    Court affirms denial of motion to consolidate absent defendants' consent, and affirms dismissal of claims against a City on grounds of sovereign immunity.

  • UHS of Peachford v. Brady

    Publication Date: 2021-10-26
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Wrongful Death
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Hostetter, Molly McCall, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa Peavy, (Melissa M Clyatt Associates PC), Destin, for appellee; Peter Fischer, (Georgia Department of Law), Atlanta, Amy Hoffman, Thomas Lavender, (FisherBroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Rolfe Martin, (Copeland, Stair, Kingma & Lovell, LLP), Atlanta, Alphonso Howell, Gregory Talley, Kayla Barnes, (Coleman Talley LLP), Valdosta, Stephanie Vari, (Peters & Monyak, LLP), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A21A0819

    Court reverses trial court and grants Hospital's motion to dismiss a wrongful death action where plaintiff failed to effect due diligence to serve her complaint

  • Lowe et al. v. Etheridge, As Natural Parent of Next of Kin Clinton Giddens et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-20
    Practice Area: Wrongful Death
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Gobeil
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ken Jarrard, Patrick Dodson, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashley Mackin, (Ashley Tyson Mackin PC), Gray, Caleb Walker, (Katherine L. McArthur, LLC), Macon, Katherine McArthur, Jessica Edmonds, (McArthur Law Firm), Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0761

    Court reverses denial of county employees' motion for summary judgment in a wrongful death case, finding that employees were entitled to a sovereign immunity defense