• Milliron v. Antonakakis

    Publication Date: 2023-08-31
    Practice Area: Attorney Compensation | Public Records
    Industry: Education | Legal Services
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucas Andrews, (Poole Huffman LLC), Tucker, Anna Cross, Meredith Kincaid, (Cross Kincaid), Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theodore Randles, Mark Schamel, (Venable LLP), Washington, Ana Jara, Christopher Schafbuch, (Lowenstein Sandler LLP), Washington, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A1163

    Open Records Request Not Properly Submitted For Failure to Direct Request to Designated Open Records Officer

  • The Augusta Press, Inc. v. Roundtree

    Publication Date: 2023-06-12
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Hudson, (Hull Barrett, PC), Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Randolph Frails, (Attorney at Law), Augusta, Tameka Haynes, (Frails & Wilson), Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0552

    Sheriff Deputy's Incident-Response Body-Cam Footage Not Subject to Disclosure Under Georgia's Open Records Act

  • Lewis v. Fidelity National Title Insurance Company

    Publication Date: 2023-05-11
    Practice Area: Public Records | Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Torriel Lewis, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Bickwit, Lawrence Kelly, (Fidelity National Law Group), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A23A0030

    Court affirms summary judgment in favor of title insurer on a fraud claim against an individual who falsely represented to be the owner-of-record of a parcel of real estate

  • Butt v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2023-04-06
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Pipkin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sohail Butt, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Carr, Jennifer Colangelo, (Office of the Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A1580

    Government's Failure to Respond to Request For Records Retention Policy Did Not Violate Open Records Act

  • Blau v. Georgia Department of Corrections

    Publication Date: 2022-06-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Barnes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronan Doherty, Benjamin Fox, (Bondurant, Mixso & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Michael Jones, (Elias Law Group LLP), Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrician Burton, (Attorney at Law), Atlanta, Elizabeth Crowder, (Law Department), Atlanta, Christopher Carr, Tina Piper, (Attorney General), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A22A0326

    Georgia Secrecy Act Does Not Prohibit Production of Department of Corrections Records to Journalist in Redacted Form

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  • Cardinale v. Keane

    Publication Date: 2022-03-10
    Practice Area: Government | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Miller
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Cardinale, (Matthew Charles Esq. Inc.), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert Ashe, (Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, LLP), Atlanta, Mr. Michael Jones, (Elias Law Group LLP), Washington, Sharon Broach, (City of Atlanta Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A21A1718

    Private Citizens Can Seek Civil Penalties Under Open Records Act

  • Pulte Home Company, LLC v. Juanita M. Aycock Living Trust

    Publication Date: 2021-08-05
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Chief Judge McFadden
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Balli, (Taylor English Duma, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hylton Dupree, (Dupree & Kimbrough, LLP), Marietta, for appellee; Debra Blair, Lauren Bruce, (Cobb County Attorney's Office), Marietta, for other party.

    Case Number: A21A0640

    County That Has Easement Over Entire Road Can Issue Permits to Perform Work on Unpaved Portion of Road

  • Hayes v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Public Records
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Hodges
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald Geary, Kelsey Geary, (The Geary Law Firm, P.C.), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald Donovan, Anthony Williams, (Assistant District Attorney), Dallas, for appellee.

    Case Number: A20A0621

    Reasonable Public Interest Exists in Record of Police Department Member Indicted for Speeding; Trial Court Did Not Err in Refusing to Block Media or Public Access

  • Williams v. Dekalb County, et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-05-01
    Practice Area: Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Ellington
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Vernon Burch, Addison Smith, John Lex Kennerly, (UGA School of Law), Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Viviane H. Ernstes, Bennett Davis Bryan, Laura Karen Johnson, Terry Gerard Phillips, Shaheem Malik Williams (Dekalb County Law Department), Decatur, Kenneth Edward Jarrard, (Jarrard & Davis, LLP), Cumming, Brent William Herrin, Gus H. Small, Benjamin S. Klehr, (Small Herrin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee. Larry Wayne Ramsey, Jr., Kelly Jean Long Pridgen, (Association County Commissioners of Georgia), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.

    Case Number: S19A1163

    Court reverses county resident's claims for civil penalties under the Open Meetings Act

  • Doe v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-23
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Public Records
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Presiding Judge Dillard
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jared Miller, (Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP), Atlanta, Erin Donohue-Koehler, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sherry Boston, Jason Rea, (DeKalb County District Attorney's Office), Decatur, Lisa Moultrie, (Assistant Solicitor General), Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A19A2378

    Acquitted Defendant Failed to Show He Suffered Harm From County's Continuing Failure to Seal His Arrest Records