• Christian v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-10-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Poston, District Attorney, and Curtis Kleem McCamy, Phillips, Tuggle & Fordham LLP, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A1353

    The trial court erred in permitting the State to introduce into evidence certain documents without first laying the proper found

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-09-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry Fouche Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl Cooke, District Attorney, Dorothy Hull, Assistant District Attorney, and Brian Granger District Attorney's Office, Macon, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A0986

    The defendant was not harmed by the trial court's error in excluding evidence of the victim's prior conviction for cocaine posse

  • Sampson v. Georgia Dep't of Juvenile Justice

    Publication Date: 2014-09-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A14A0474

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's complaint against the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice for alleged violations of the Georgia Open Records Act on res judicata gr

  • Butler v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2014-08-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Hartley and Hieu Nguyen Harben & Hartley LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marc Lubatkin, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0448

    Monitoring, supervising and controlling the activities of students is a discretionary action protected by the doctrine of official immunity, even if the allegations involve a teacher's total failure

  • Rogers v. Woodruff

    Publication Date: 2014-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Jones Beck, Owen & Murray, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Commander Commander Pound LLP, Peachtree City, and Lori Jolly Devlin & Parkinson PA, Greenville, S. C., for appellee. Other party representation: Daniel Rice, Villa Rica.

    Case Number: A14A0425

    The defendant property owner was entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's claims seeking to recover for injuries he suffered when a deck railing gave way and he fell to the concrete below, a

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  • First Bank of Ga. v. Robertson Grading Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Stebbins and Nathan Huff Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Larkins Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, and William Trotter, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A0701

    The trial court erred in failing to grant the defendant's motion for directed verdict on the plaintiff's claim for promissory estoppel, as the plaintiff failed to establish exclusive or reasonable r

  • Doe v. Archdiocese of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2014-08-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Don Keenan The Keenan Law Firm, Atlanta, and Mathew Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Forte and Dana Richens Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0603

    The trial court erred in concluding that the plaintiff's complaint was a legal nullity because she filed it using a pseu

  • Community & S. Bank v. DCB Invs. LLC

    Publication Date: 2014-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Busch, Christopher Porterfield, Shane Stogner Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh LLP, and Tawana Johnson Unbounded Solutions Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Hobgood and David Bass Hobgood & Rutherford LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0717

    The trial court erred in finding that the lender's failure to obtain judicial confirmation of the foreclosure sale on property associated with one note in a group of three inextricably intertwined n

  • Ultra Telecom Inc. v. Merchant

    Publication Date: 2014-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline Joslyn-Gaul and Paul Oliver Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Schneider & Stine PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Spix, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0668

    The trial court did not err in granting the defendants' Batson challenge to one of the plaintiff's peremptory strikes of a prospective

  • Reeves v. Mahathre

    Publication Date: 2014-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Adams Adams & Adams LLP, Fort Valley, Jarome Gautreaux Gautreaux & Adams LLC, and Tracey Dellacona, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kathleen Simcoe, Theodore Pound Commander Pound Butler LLP, Atlanta, Carr Dodson Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, and W. Earl McCall McCall, Williams, Wilmot & Powell LLC, Albany, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0155

    The record failed to establish that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether the emergency room physician's treatment of the decedent proximately caused her