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James Dartlin Meadows

Partner

dmeadows@balch.com

Atlanta

T: (404) 962-3529

F: (404) 261-3656

JAMES DARTLIN “DART” MEADOWS is a trial lawyer with 25 years of experience of successfully resolving a wide variety of disputes. He has tried dozens of cases in state and federal court in Georgia, as well and in other states. His practice includes business litigation, product liability, healthcare and real estate litigation. Dart is named to The Best Lawyers in America, Georgia's list of "Super Lawyers" and has received the highest AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Dart practiced with Powell, Goldstein's litigation department from 1983 until February 1992 when Meadows, Ichter and Bowers was formed. Meadows, Ichter & Bowers merged with Balch & Bingham LLP on June 1, 2003.

Dart has developed a national practice representing woodworking machinery manufacturers, distributors and dealers in product liability litigation throughout the United States. He is national product liability counsel for two of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of industrial woodworking machinery. He has served as co-chair of the Hand and Power Tool Product Liability Section of the DRI, chair of the Product Liability Section of the State Bar of Georgia and regularly speaks to numerous industry groups about product liability prevention and defense issues.

Dart was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Peachtree Christian Hospice and served on the board of the Atlanta City Unit of the American Cancer Society. Dart was President of the Peach State Chapter of the West Virginia University Alumni Association. He founded the "Party with a Purpose", one of the American Cancer Society's largest single event fundraisers in Atlanta. Dart was the number one tennis player on the West Virginia University Tennis Team from 1975-79 and set a number of records while at WVU. As a nationally ranked junior tennis player in West Virginia, Dart won 13 state championships in singles and doubles.

Representative Trials

Baker v. Rome Automation & Fabrication, Inc.; Superior Court of Floyd County; Intellectual property dispute
Bass v. Smyrna Hospital; Superior Court of Cobb County; medical malpractice/wrongful death
Battaglia v. Minick; Superior Court of DeKalb County; writ of possession, conversion, attorneys’ fees and punitive damages claim involving 1961 Aston Martin car.
Carney v. Smith; Superior Court of Dekalb County; Plaintiff’s personal injury action.
Coldwell Banker v. Nodvin; United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia; real estate commission, fraud, RICO
Cook v. Dunn; Fulton Superior Court, breach of real estate contract
Evans v. State Farm; Superior Court of Gwinnett County; Defense of action for bad faith penalties, attorneys’ fees and punitive damages involving insurance contract.
Gilbertson; State Court of Fulton County ; Plaintiff’s personal injury case
Golf Club of Georgia v. Lee; Superior Court of Fulton County; Violation of undisturbed buffer easement, trespass and conversion.
Herron v. First Bulloch Bank & Trust Co.; Superior Court of Fulton County; Defense of action for wrongful dishonor and conversion.
Hyde v. Northside Hospital; Superior Court of Fulton County; Georgia Court of Appeals A94A1611; Defense of urology malpractice action involving Peyronie’s Disease.
Johnson v. Sanders; State Court of Fayette County; Plaintiff’s personal injury action.
Land Line Dispute; Superior Court of Paulding County; Defense of action to resolve land line dispute.
Maki v. Everett; Superior Court of Cobb County; Defense of wrongful death action involving motorcycle striking catering truck stalled on I-285
Mathis v. State Farm; State Court of DeKalb County; Defense of no-fault action for bad faith penalties, attorneys’ fees and punitive damages.
Martin v. Moon; Superior Court of Gwinnett County; Defense of wrongful death action.
Pritchett v. Delta Airlines; Superior Court of Fulton County; Defense of overhead bin incident in which plaintiff alleged closed head brain injury.
Salo v. Steele; Superior Court of Fulton County; Action for breach of restrictive covenant, conversion and trespass.
Silva v. Louis & Co.; Superior Court of San Diego County, California; Defense of product liability action involving hand injury.
SCM V. CDM; U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, Scranton Division; Action for monies owed from sale of commercial woodworking router.
Smith v. Lanier; Fulton Superior Court; Defense of personal injury claim arising from car wreck.
Soble v. Gorin; Probate Court of DeKalb County; Years support claim.
Stephens v. State Farm; U.S. District Court, Northern District Georgia, Atlanta Division; Defense of action for bad faith penalties, attorneys’ fees and punitive damages.
Williams v. Stringer; Superior Court of Cobb County; Action for breach of contract and fraud involving termite damages against pest control company.
Raimondo Terrasi and Alisa Terrasi v. Seacoast Machinery Corp., et al.; Middlesex Superior Court (Boston, MA); Civil Action No. 01-0641; Defense of product liability suit involving hand amputation.
REPRESENTATIVE APPEALS
A.L. Williams & Associates v. Stelk; U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia; Case Nos. 89-8765, 90-8855; Defense of tortious interference action relating to multi-level marketing of term life insurance.
Amason, Inc. v. Metromont Materials Corp.; Georgia Court of Appeals No. 75423; Materialmen’s lien suit.
Casgar v. Citizens & Southern Nat’l Bank; Georgia Court of Appeals No. 76770; Action on note and guarantee; defense of fraud counterclaim.
Cohen v. William Goldberg & Co.; Georgia Court of Appeals Nos. A91A1424; A91A1425, A91A1426; A91A1427 & Georgia Supreme Court No. S92G0381 & Georgia Court of Appeals, Case Nos. A95A1188, A95A1189, A95A1190; Complex commercial litigation involving failed merger of three companies. Case lasted over 13 years.
Coldwell Banker Commercial Group, Inc. v. Nodvin; U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division No. C83-1212A; Action for real estate brokerage commission and for attorneys’ fees.
Hospital Authority of Fulton County v. Litterilla; Georgia Court of Appeals Nos. A90A1553, A90A1814 & Georgia Supreme Court Nos. S91G1002, S91G1050; Defense of obstetrical malpractice action involving cerebral palsy.
Hyde v. Fulton County Hospital Authority; Superior Court of Fulton County; Georgia Court of Appeals A94A1611; Defense of urology malpractice action involving peyronic’s disease.
Jewell v. SCMI Corp.; U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire, Civil No. 94-359-JD; Defense of product liability action involving M2 Gang Ripsaw.
Kurc v. Herren; Georgia Court of Appeals, Case No. A90A0067; Landlord-tenant action for conversion.
Reliance Insurance Company of Illinois, Inc. v. Richfield Hospitality Services, Inc. U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division Case No. 1:98-CV-3607A-JEC; Indemnification action.
RJV Corp. v. SuperValu, Inc.; Georgia Court of Appeals A96A1351; Action for overages owed under office lease.
Rosario v. SCM Group USA, Inc.; U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania C.A. File No. 02-3025 & C.A. No. 03-761; Defense of product liability action involving industrial woodworking machine.
SCM Group, USA, Inc. v. Custom Designs & Manufacturing Co., Inc.; Third Circuit Court of Appeals No. 03-2023 & U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania No. 01-CV-1984; Uniform Commercial Code case involving sale of industrial woodworking machine and buyer’s refusal to pay alleging machine did not operate properly.
Turner v. City of Atlanta; Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia Supreme Court No. 44233; Challenge to downzoning of improved commercial property done without individual notice.
Wilson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.; U.S. District Court Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division; Civil Nos. C84-1175, C82-1067, C81-2303, C81-2319; Defense of insurance company in action for benefits, bad faith penalties and attorneys’ fees.
Jim Bonem v. The Golf Club of Georgia; State Court of Forsyth County; C.A. File No. 02SC0359; Court of Appeals of Georgia, Case No.: A03A1778; Action to collect amounts owed on a promissory note for the purchase of a nonrefundable golf club membership.