ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Property owners in troubled Georgia neighborhoods got some good news from the state Supreme Court recently when it ruled they couldn’t be held liable for gang violence.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – A dog not on a leash should legally be considered vicious, the Georgia Supreme Court has ruled in a case involving an attack that killed a dog and injured her owner.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Georgia’s governor can pick his own justice for a spot on the state Supreme Court because of a well-timed resignation by the outgoing jurist.
Daryl Moody bought an interest in an aerospace company, Leucadia Group, LLC and wanted to oust the president, Robert Miller. Moody’s lawyers, Hill, Kertscher & Wharton, LLP, (HKW) advised him to create a new company, transfer Leucadia’s shares to it, and then fire Miller as CEO of the original company.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – David A. Smith, a world-ranked Olympic high jumper, is facing a new hurdle as he tries to collect a $2 million damages award from a 2012 auto accident that fractured his left hip.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – On Dec. 23, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled that Federal Railroad Safety Act claims don’t cancel out the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA) in a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Patients from an orthopedic center who were victims of a security hack plausibly pleaded their claims, the Supreme Court of Georgia determined on Dec. 23.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia determined a provision in a tenant/landlord lease doesn’t apply to a resident’s premises liability lawsuit after she suffered an injury on the property.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia has vacated a judgment and remanded a case filed by a couple who sued Rockdale Hospital LLC over allegations of medical malpractice.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia has sent a case regarding whether the Atlanta Botanical Garden can prohibit firearms on its property back to a lower court.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that a trial court properly denied a petition filed by a tenured Clayton County judge who alleged she was owed $120,000 in back pay.
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) – Two Missouri residents have filed suit against a litigation finance company in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Missouri on April 17 over claims the defendant charged exorbitant interest rates.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - Funding provided to plaintiffs while their lawsuit is pending is not a loan under Georgia law, the state's Supreme Court ruled Monday, and therefore regulations setting maximum interest rates that can be charged won't apply.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed and remanded a case for a former College Park firefighter who claimed one of the officials that fired her wasn’t legally permitted to be in the role.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia reversed “sharply divided” trial and appeals courts’ orders on Aug. 20 regarding summary judgment arguments made by the defendant caterer in a food poisoning case.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled that damages sought in a wrongful death lawsuit against Toyota Motor Co. are limited by a rule against double recovery.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - As Florida trial lawyers gathered last week for an annual meeting featuring an array of trending litigation seminars, another industry set up shop in a big way at the convention hall site.
ATLANTA (Georgia) – The Supreme Court of Georgia has reversed a Court of Appeals decision that protected an employer from being held liable for a gun-related injury caused by an employee.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court on March 5 reversed a decision of the Georgia Court of Appeals and ordered a retrial in a medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit over the death of a patient.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court on Dec. 11 said lower courts erred when they awarded summary judgment to Grady Memorial Hospital Corp. in a wrongful death lawsuit.
