• In re Suttle

    Publication Date: 2010-10-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of country-regionGeorgiaplaceCityAtlantaJames E. Spence Jr. Wilson, Morton & Downs LLC, placeCityDecaturWilliam L. Skinner, Tucker, and Anthony B. Askew, Review Panel Chairperson King & Spalding LLP, placeCityAtlanta
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10Y1548

    An attorney, who entered an Alford plea to residential mortgage fraud was suspended for two years with conditions on reinstat

  • Giacomantonio v. Romagnoli

    Publication Date: 2010-09-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John M. Gross and Ramsey A. Knowles Taylor English Duma LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Walter H. Bush Jr. and Christopher B. Freeman Carlton Fields PA, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A10A1934

    The appellant could ssert that he was entitled to injunctive relief, which would maker parts of the parties' restaurant operation and supply companies' operating agreements invalid, since he di

  • Woods v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilson R. Smith Smith & Jenkins, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: David B. Bell Bell & Bell Assocs., Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0210

    Under Georgia law, an attorney's lien is considered an open account and subject to a 4-year statute of limitation, which begins to run when the right of action ac

  • Schaff v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Gough, Brunswick, and Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, and Jacquelyn L. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Woodbine, for appellee. Other party representation: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A10A0290

    Defense counsel's testimony was not necessary to prove the facts relating to the alleged molestation victim's videotaped recantation, which took place at his office, since others were present during

  • State of Ga. ex. rel. Doyle v. Frederick J. Hanna & Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2010-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey W. Stump and Amy C. M Burns, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Bowers, J. Matthew Maguire Jr. and Marlie A. McDonnell Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A0397

    The Administrator of the Fair Business Practices Act of 1975's investigative demand, which he issued to a law firm seeking to collect debts on behalf of creditors, was an improper attempt to regulat

  • Tavakolian v. AGIO Corp.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gholamreza Tavakolian, Avondale Estate, and Hamid Tavakolian, Mission Viejo, Calif., proceeded pro se. C. Terry Blanton Jerry L. Sewell, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A09A1838

    A ' "motion to determine in a hearing the sufficiency of answers is necessary before responses to request for admissions may be deemed insufficient and deemed admitt

  • Srader v. Midkiff

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James J. Hopkins, Carrollton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0523

    Trial court did not err in issuing a final judgment without receiving the minor's test or appointing a guardian ad litem, because it heard the grandparents' and father's test

  • Flores v. Keener

    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence L. Bennett Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Moskowitz Moskowitz & Carraway, Atlanta, Joseph T. Leman Harris & Hartman Law Firm PC, Dalton, and S. Lester Tate III Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellee. Other party representation: Delece Brooks State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A10A0583

    The Court of Appeals reinstated the Appellate Division's judgment allocating attorneys' fees from a workers' compensation settlement between the claimant's former attorney and the attorney, who obta

  • In re Martin

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warren R. Hinds, Roswell. Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and A. M. Christina Petrig State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Jeffrey S. Ward, Chairperson Review Panel, Brunswick.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S10Y0235

    An attorney, who admittedly allowed the deposit of cash advance funds into attorney operating account, even though she performed no legal services for the deposit of those funds, will receive a Revi

  • Meacham v. Franklin-Heard County Water Authority

    Publication Date: 2010-01-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel B. Greenfield, Bremen, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phillip E. Friduss Landrum & Friduss LLC, Woodstock, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A2055

    The trial court erred in excluding the plaintiff's expert witness solely on basis of the expert's alleged interest in the outcome of the