ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court on Oct. 30 ruled that a trial court did not err when it upheld the dismissal of a legal malpractice case filed by RES-GA McDonough LLC against Taylor English Duma LLP.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled against Lemcon USA Corp. as it fights against a default judgment entered against it in another state.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Georgia's Supreme Court has reinstated at $35 million award in the case of a teenager severely beaten while leaving Six Flags Over Georgia almost a decade ago in which a jury found the amusement park largely liable for the beating he suffered.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Supreme Court of Georgia has ruled that internet radio services are similar enough to AM/FM services to allow an exemption to the state's Criminal Reproduction and Sale of Recorded Material statute.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The plaintiff in a lawsuit involving the mix-up of a stillborn infant's remains has lost her suit in the Georgia Supreme Court. She had cited emotional distress.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) — A recently-enacted Georgia law regarding the timing of deadlines in settlement offers has resulted in the Georgia Supreme Court siding with a couple whose daughter died in a car wreck, and against an insurance company.
ATLANTA — The Georgia Supreme Court recently ruled that a man suing a nursing home over the alleged wrongful death of his wife must first take his case to arbitration.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Is a dental practice liable if a patient is sexually assaulted by a contractor while under anesthesia? The Georgia Supreme Court recently decided, in the case of Goldstein Garber & Salama v. J.B., that it is not.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – Georgia’s highest court last month weighed in on whether a plaintiff can be awarded punitive damages as compensation for losses under the Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) — Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced Feb. 8 that Western Sky Financial LLC, CashCall Inc. and related entities have agreed to pay $40 million in monetary relief to Georgia consumers.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – A wrongful death lawsuit filed against a plastic surgeon failed to get a new trial following a ruling by the Georgia Supreme Court affirming the exclusion of evidence that would have supposedly been helpful to the petitioner.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) — CashCall Inc. and related entity Western Sky Financial Inc. have agreed to suspend collections on roughly $6.5 million in payday loans made to consumers in Georgia between 2009 and 2013.
Two lower courts previously agreed with SunTrust that the class action lawsuit wasn’t possible because the plaintiff couldn’t opt out on behalf of others. The Atlanta bank claims its arbitration rejection clause is drafted in such a manner as to make it impossible for a class representative to act on behalf of class members.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court, in a ruling Monday, vacated an injunction against a Mississippi law firm’s full-page newspaper advertisement aimed at a Toccoa area nursing home.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Supreme Court justices in Florida may have given plaintiffs attorneys a reason to try to strike down legislatively imposed limits on non-economic damages in other states, a law professor and plaintiffs attorney agree.
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court has vacated the Court of Appeals judgment on a consolidated set of cases involving the death of a man in a construction accident and sent the cases back to the appellate court for proceedings consistent with its opinion.
Nahmias ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court this week sided with an employee who was accidentally shot in the leg by a co-worker, saying the co-worker was acting as a "third-party tort feasor," not an "employee of the same employer," at the time of the injury.
Thompson ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court ruled last week that a tractor at the center of a wrongful death lawsuit meets the definition of "any motor vehicle" in state law.
Melton ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld a provision of the state's 2005 tort reform package that allows juries in lawsuits against property owners to apportion fault to criminal assailants.
Melton ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) - The Georgia Supreme Court this week reversed a lower court's ruling in a lawsuit over an 83-year-old woman's death, saying that when she was attacked and killed by an eight-foot alligator in a residential community that she had "equal knowledge" of such a threat.
