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  • Leslie v. 1125 Hammond, LP et al.

    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Landlord Tenant Law | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph Goldberg, (Goldberg & Cuvillier, P.C.), Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeanette LeRay, Austin Atkinson, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A23A0568

    No Material Factual Issues Were Presented in Support of Tenant's Housing Discrimination Claim

  • Crowe v. Scissom et al.

    Publication Date: 2022-09-15
    Practice Area: Banking and Finance Laws | Consumer Protection | Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Luna, (Joseph Luna Law LLC), Jacksonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic Beloin, (Beloin, Brown & Blum, LLC), Atlanta, Chadwick Knott, (The Law Office of Chad Knott, LLC), Cleveland, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A1130

    Lender in owner-financed real estate transaction was not "creditor" under Georgia Fair Lending Act

  • Smith v. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-07-22
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection
    Industry: Food and Beverage
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Brown
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Harman, Eric Fredrickson, (Harman Law Firm LLC), Atlanta, Christopher Nidel, (Nidel & Nace, PLLC), Rockville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eileen Rumfelt, Atlanta, Meredith Lee, Robert Parsley, C. Townsend, (Miller & Martins), Chattanooga, for appellee.
    Case Number: A22A0170

    Consumer's Harmful-Ingredient Claim Against Food Supplement Manufacturer Raised Issues Within Primary Jurisdiction of FDA

  • 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

  • Henry v. Griffin Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

    Publication Date: 2022-02-17
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Phipps
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Flinn, (Saag), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Davis, Patrick Reames, (Bovis Kyle Burch & Medlin LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A1775

    Dissatisfied Purchase Failed to Establish Vehicle Was "Reacquired Vehicle" Under Georgia Lemon Law

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  • Renasant Corporation et al. v. Korst

    Publication Date: 2021-12-06
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Consumer Protection
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Bruyere, Arash Sabzevari, (Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter Bibbins, (Hall Booth Smith PC), Atlanta, Walter Booth, (Jones & Booth LLC), Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A21A0791

    Court affirms denial of mortgage lender's motion to dismiss Fair Housing Act complaint filed by a borrower who alleged discrimination due to his disabilities.

  • Cruz et al. v. Xytex Corporation et al.

    Publication Date: 2021-09-23
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Reese
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James McDonough, (Heninger Garrison Davis, LLC), Atlanta, William Garrison, Brandy Robertson, (Heninger Garrison Davis), Birmingham, David Newdorf, (Newdorf Legal), Oakland, Nancy Hersh, (Hersh & Hersh), San Francisco, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alison Currie, Thomas Lavender, (FisherBroyles, LLP), Atlanta, Linda Jordan, (Watkins Lourie Roll Chance PC), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0040

    Claims based on injuries derived from children's lives are not cognizable under Georgia law, but claims predating their lives may be pled as consumer fraud claims

  • Aguila v. Kennestone Hospital, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2021-06-02
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William James, (William Dixon James, P.C.), Decatur, Charles Gower, Charles Gower, (Attorney at Law), Columbus, Miranda Brash, Shaun O'Hara, (Charles A. Gower PC), Columbus, Michael Terry, Michael Baumrind, Frank Lowrey, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Ivey, Robert Martin, Tyler Pritchard, (Hall Booth Smith, P.C.), Columbus, Lindsey Mann, William Withrow, (Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP), Atlanta, Lauren Dimitri, (Attorney at Law), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1492

    Court affirms dismissal of complaint for fraud where defendant hospital had a reasonable basis to use its chargemaster rate as a basis for a hospital lien

  • Johns et al. v. Suzuki Motor of America, Inc. et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-11-16
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Kathleen Coalson, (Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C.), Atlanta, R. Randy Edwards, Paul Anthony Piland, (Cochran & Edwards, LLC), Smyrna, John Wesley Sherrod, (Sherrod & Bernard), Douglasville, David Frank Walbert, (Parks, Chesin & Walbert, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Chilton D. Varner, Susan Marie Clare, (King & Spalding LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. John David Hadden, (The Hadden Law Firm, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant. James D. Meadows, James Lynn Hollis, Malissa Anne Kaufold-Wiggins, Patrick N. Silloway, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, David Norton Nelson, (Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, LLP), Macon, Elissa Blache Haynes, (Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP), Atlanta, Philip Michael Thompson, (Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP), Savannah, for Amicus Appellee.
    Case Number: S19G1478

    Strict Liability Claims Are Subject to Statutory Apportionment For Comparative Fault

  • Georgia Lottery Corporation v. Patel

    Publication Date: 2020-01-07
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McMillian
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julie Jacobs, William Banks, Christopher Carr, Logan Winkles, (Georgia Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jared Lina, James Goldstein, (Goldstein & Hayes, P.C.), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2278

    Lottery Winner's UDTPA Claim for Injunctive Relief Against Georgia Lottery Corporation Is Barred by Sovereign Immunity