Written by Dave Williams, Atlanta Business Chronicle | Mar 20, 2017 | News
Legislation the General Assembly passed last year leading to the creation of the city of South Fulton should not prohibit Atlanta from annexing five neighborhoods now part of the new city, a lawyer representing Atlanta argued Monday. As a local act, House Bill 514 did not supersede the general state […]
Written by Nathan Hale - Law360, Miami | Feb 27, 2017 | News
Law360, Miami (February 27, 2017, 9:45 PM EST) — A Florida federal judge on Monday pared down a multimillion-dollar lawsuit accusing aircraft maintenance company BizJet of lying about its ability to service an aircraft engine on a corporate jet and performing “shoddy,” life-endangering repairs, but left intact core contractual claims. […]
Written by Firm | Feb 27, 2017 | Results
Richard Robbins and Heather Sharp obtained an order in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida which largely denied defendant’s motion to dismiss. We represent the owner of a Gulfstream airplane which had been damaged during a midlife inspection, resulting in damages to our client, including over […]
Written by Firm | Feb 22, 2017 | Results
In November 2013, upon the motion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Judge William S. Duffey, Jr. appointed Robbins Firm partner Jason S. Alloy as Receiver for Detroit Memorial Partners, LLC (DMP), a defendant in a major securities fraud action in the Northern District of Georgia. Jason was charged with […]
Written by Tyler Estep - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Feb 10, 2017 | News
The well-timed chorus of coughing, meant to overwhelm whatever Gwinnett County Commissioner Tommy Hunter was saying, reached a crescendo, then died down as his voice trailed off. When he tried to resume talking, it happened again. And again. And again. All four times during that Tuesday afternoon meeting, commission Chairman […]
Written by Firm | Feb 9, 2017 | Results
After customers of the firm’s client, an owner of bona fide coin operated amusement machines (“COAMs”), attempted to avoid their contractual obligations to our client, we took the dispute to arbitration under the auspices of the Georgia Lottery Corporation’s regulatory jurisdiction. The arbitrator’s final award upheld the validity of our […]
Written by Ben Brasch - Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Feb 8, 2017 | News
A man who ran a fraudulent Cobb County business was sentenced to almost two years in prison by a Kentucky federal judge Monday. Eric Charlton Claxton, the 30-year-old self-described “real estate whiz kid,” will spend 21 months in prison for three charges of wire fraud, the Courier-Journal in Louisville reported. He must […]
