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  • Metzger v. Americredit Fin. Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-06-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee Hernan, Taylor & Lee, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig B. Lefkoff Lefkoff, Rubin & Gleason PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0577

    The defendant was not entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's conversion claim based on its repossession of a vehicle, which the plaintiff bought without notice of the defendant's prior lien

  • Trotter v. Summerour

    Publication Date: 2005-06-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack E. Dodd, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James N. Butterworth, Cornelia, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0683

    Under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14, trial courts must limit fee awards to those fees incurred because of sanctionable co

  • Howse v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-05-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roderick H. Martin, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray and Eleanor A. Dixon, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0256

    The defendant placed his hand under his 14-year-old half-sister's shorts, fondled her, forced two fingers inside of her and tried to insert his penis into her v

  • Professional Standards Comm'n v. Alberson

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Penny Hannah State Law Dep't, Atlanta, William W. Calhoun and Christina L. Folsom Langley & Lee LLC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. Dunham, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0163

    Some evidence supported the Professional Standards Commission's determination that the superintendent of the Turner county school system violated Interim Ethics Rule 505-2-.03 1 n by brandishing a

  • Security Life Ins. Co. v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa W. Roseborough, William D. Barwick and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Byron Attridge, Sidney S. Haskins II King & Spalding LLP, and J. Alexander Porter Porter & Orrison LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0843

    An Unliquidated Damages Interest Act, O.C.G.A. § 51-12-14 UDIA, determination should not be made on an award of compensatory damages augmented by a variety of other a

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  • Georgia Lien Servs. Inc. v. Barrett

    Publication Date: 2005-04-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. McNeill Holloway III, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: Vernitia A. Shannon and John A. Ayoub County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0372

    Reliance on inaccurate legal advice from a gover official is not a ground for waiver or estoppel against the state or a local gover

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Harris, Lawrenceville, proceeded pro se. Shawn E. LaGrua, Solicitor General, and Marie Kham, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A05A0337

    The trial court did not err in allowing the state to charge the defendant with speeding in two different ways to meet the evi

  • Metzger v. Americredit Financial Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee Hernan, Taylor & Lee, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Craig B. Lefkoff Lefkoff, Rubin & Gleason PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0577

    The defendant was not entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's conversion claim based on its repossession of a vehicle, which the plaintiff bought without notice of the defendant's prior lien

  • Spivey v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Hardin, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert B. Ellis Jr., District Attorney, Nashville, and Timothy L. Eidson, Pearson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2316

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction as a party to forcible rape since she carried her young daughter into the bedroom she shared with the child's father and watched as the father lay o

  • Covin v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Sandra G. Rivers and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant District Attorneys, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2364

    The defendant entered his guilty plea knowingly and voluntarily on the second day of trial, after his co-defendant announced his intent to plead guilty and the state rested its