DISMISSAL OF PREMISES LIABILITY CASE
On November 20, 2025, Atlanta Partners Carrie Christie and Courtney Norton and Atlanta Associate Tereza Kucerova obtained dismissal of a premises liability case in the State Court of Sumter County, Georgia. At issue in the motion to dismiss was the five-day safe harbor provision in Georgia’s service of process statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 (c). Where […]
SUIT AGAINST AIRLINE DISMISSED UNDER MOTREAL CONVENTION
On September 26, 2025, Partner David Rutherford and New York Associate Alexis Yribarren successfully secured a dismissal of an international air carrier in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on the basis that the Montreal Convention was the plaintiff’s exclusive remedy for an international flight and preempted the plaintiff’s assorted […]
SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN SLIP AND FALL CASE
On September 18, 2025, Atlanta Partners Carrie Christie and Courtney Norton and Atlanta Associate Chastity Marshall won summary judgment in the State Court of Athens-Clarke County, Georgia. The plaintiff sought injuries allegedly sustained when she slipped and fell inside the defendant’s restaurant. When she arrived at the restaurant and traversed the lobby on her way […]
DISMISSAL OF GENDER-MOTIVATED VIOLENCE ACT CASE
On September 9, 2025, David Rutherford and New York Associate Michael Stuart obtained the dismissal of an action filed under New York’s Gender Motivated Violence Act (GMVA). When the Act was passed in 2000, it created a civil rights cause of action permitting any person claiming to be injured by a party who commits a […]
SUMMARY JUDGMENT IN HAZARDOUS CONDITION CASE
On August 18, 2025, New York Associate Cassidy Brillhart obtained summary judgment in favor of a popular restaurant chain in a premises liability action pending in the Supreme Court, Ulster County. The plaintiff chose to walk down a grassy, wet hill in the front parking lot, despite both a small staircase and an ADA-compliant rampway […]