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  • Kidd et al. v. Metro Brokers, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-12
    Practice Area: Premises Liability
    Industry: Brokerage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd Bell, (Bell Law Firm), Atlanta, Bruce Berger, (Berger Law Firm), Atlanta, Shuli Green, (Shuli L. Green, P.C.), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ned Blumenthal, Seth Weissman, (Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee; Seth Weissman, (Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, P.C.), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.
    Case Number: A24A1072

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of real estate brokers and agents, who were found not to be liable for fatal injuries to a visitor at a property shown for sale

  • Kathy Boone et al v. Vascular Surgical Associates, P.C., et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-09-04
    Practice Area: Medical Malpractice
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher Alderman, Darren Summerville, (The Summerville Firm, LLC), Atlanta, Daniel Moriarty, (Green Sapp & Moriarty, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Childers, (Childers, Schlueter & Smith, LLC), Atlanta, Anna Fretwell, Mikell Reynolds, (Huff Powell Bailey), Atlanta, Robert Monyak, (Peters & Monyak, LLP), Atlanta, Neil Edwards, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Max Wallace, (Conway Eader LLLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0749

    Court affirms verdict in favor of medical professionals in a medical malpractice suit, upholding the validity of expert testimony and jury instructions

  • William J. Weathers, II et al. v. Robert L. Weathers, Jr.

    Publication Date: 2024-08-26
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution | Trusts and Estates
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael King, (Greenberg Traurig, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerald Davidson, (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville; Warren Wills, (Law Offices of Warren W. Wills, Jr.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0608

    Court affirms vacatur of arbitration award in an inheritance dispute due to arbitrator's imperfect execution of authority in resolving issues over the inheritance

  • Snellings v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-12
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Kenner, (Law Offices of Robert Kenner, Jr.), Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alisha Johnson, Alicia Gant, (Rockdale County District Attorney's Office), Conyers, Nathan Stuckey, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, for other party.
    Case Number: A24A0492

    Court reverses trial court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence because traffic stop was unreasonably prolonged in a DUI case

  • Baldwin County v. Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities for the State of Georgia et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-07-11
    Practice Area: Contractual Disputes
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Welch, (Smith Welch Webb & White), McDonough, Brandon Palmer, (Smith, Welch, Webb & White, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jonathan Loegel, (Office of the Attorney General of Georgia), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A1636

    Court affirms dismissal in Baldwin County's breach of contract lawsuit with state behavioral health department because no valid intergovernmental contract existed between the entities

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  • Finnegan v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-07-10
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tyler Conklin, (Conklin Law Firm), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan Treadaway, (Chief Assistant District Attorney Cobb Judicial Circuit), Marietta, Cliff Head, (Assistant District Attorney Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit), Canton, Rachel Ashe, (Cherokee County Solicitor Generals Office), Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0439

    Court affirms kidnapping and drug convictions but vacates and remands for resentencing on duplicative family-violence order violations

  • Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Lazarus & Adele, LLP v. Barken et al.

    Publication Date: 2024-06-21
    Practice Area: Legal Ethics and Attorney Discipline
    Industry: Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laurie Daniel, Atlanta, Skyler McDonald, (Webb Daniel Friedlander LLP), Tampa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rogers, William D’Antignac, Gilbert Deitch, Kara Phillips, (Deitch & Rogers, LLC), Atlanta, John Hadden, (Penn Law, LLC), Atlanta, G Spears, (Spears & Filipovits, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee; Robert Ware, Pearson Cunningham, (Hall Booth Smith), Atlanta, Russell Britt, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Michael Wynter, (City of Atlanta- Department of Law), Atlanta, for other party; Rusi Patel, (Georgia Municipal Association, Inc.), Atlanta, for AM.
    Case Number: A24A0159

    Court reverses sanctions against law firm, where sanctions had been awarded on account of law firm's failure to timely disclose conflict of interest

  • Davis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-30
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Miller, (Attorney at Law), Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anna Johnson, Samir Patel, Erle Newton, (Cherokee Judicial Circuit - District Attorney’s Office), Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0533

    Court affirms conviction in child molestation case and rejects defendant's claim of ineffective assistance of counsel; over failure to object to jury's consideration of notes written by defendant

  • Reeves et al. v. Allstate Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Insurance Law
    Industry: Insurance
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David King, Paul Grote, (Burkhalter Law, LLC), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melissa McMullen, Marvin Dikeman, (Webb Zschunke Neary & Dikeman, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0286

    Court affirms directed verdict in favor of insurance company in a dispute over a lawsuit limitation period, finding that insured party filed the lawsuit past a one-year limit in the insurance contract

  • Hewett v. The State

    Publication Date: 2024-05-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frances Kuo, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan Adams, (Office of the District Attorney, Towaliga Judicial Circuit), Jackson, Dorothy Hull, (Assistant District Attorney), Forsyth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A24A0157

    Court affirms child molestation and sexual battery convictions over defendant's challenges regarding sufficiency of evidence, ineffective assistance of counsel, and other errors