• Zarate-Martinez v. Echemendia

    Publication Date: 2015-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly Bates Bates Baum, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Huff and Taylor Tribble Huff, Powell Bailey LLC, for appellees.

    Case Number: A15A0501

    The trial court properly dismissed the plaintiff's medical malpractice lawsuit based on its finding that the plaintiff's expert's affidavit did not meet the requirement for expert testimony and that

  • Kim v. Park

    Publication Date: 2015-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Yoon and Diona Potter The Law Offices of Richard Yoon, Suwanee, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ned Blumenthal and Ashoo Sharma Weissman, Nowack, Curry Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A15A0001

    The plaintiff failed to file a timely response to the defendants' motion for summary judgment, as an agreement between counsel was insufficient to extend the deadline to respond since the parties di

  • Anglin v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2015-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank Pape, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark VanderBroek and Eliyahu E. Wolfe Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus: Charles Bliss, David Webster, Atlanta, and Sarah Austin Legal Aid of Cobb County, Marietta.

    Case Number: A15A0648

    Under the circumstances of this case, the tenants' failure to comply with the notice requirements of O.C.G.A. § 13-1-11 subsection 1 3 did not preclude the award of attorney fees to them on their co

  • Gribble v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Selwin E. Patterson Public Defender's Office, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert Franklin, District Attorney, LaFayette, and Melissa Pittman, Assistant District Attorney, Ringgold, for appellee.

    Case Number: A15A0747

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's general demurrer because th ctment tracked the language of the applicable code section and the defendant could not admit the conduct alleged in t

  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A0740

    A guaranty agreement executed as part of a credit application identified the principal debtor with sufficient specificity to satisfy the Statute of F

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  • Tucker v. Pearce

    Publication Date: 2015-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Readdick, Steven Blackerby, Richard Strickland Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Aaron Mumford Glynn County Attorney's Office, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Bowen, Paul Painter Bowen Painter LLC, and William Dekle Brennan Wasden LLP, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A2105

    An officer's acts, including his failure to medically screen a detainee before placing him in a holding cell, were not the proximate cause of the detainee's suicide, which was an unforeseeabl

  • Thomas v. Fulton County Bd. of Educ.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Brown Smith, Wallis Scott LLP, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd Brooks Swift, Currie, McGhee Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Douglas Witten State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A14A2057

    The State Board of Workers' Compensation incorrectly applied O.C.G.A. § 34-9-260 when calculating the claimant's average weekly

  • Bell v. Waffle House Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Stevens and Ronald Stevens Stevens Stevens LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon Elleby and Robert Ingram Moore, Ingram, Johnson Steele LLP, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A2303

    Since the plaintiff did not dispute the reasonableness of the defendant's attorneys' fees and made only a procedural argument unrelated to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the defendant's

  • Tift County Sch. Dist. v. Martinez

    Publication Date: 2015-05-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall Farmer and Aric Kline Gregory Doyle Calhoun Rogers LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John Fleming Reynolds Horne Survant, Macon, A. Martin Kent Brannen, Searcy Smith LLP, Savannah, and John Reinhardt Reinhardt Whitley Summerlin Pittman PC, Tifton, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A1988

    The school district waived its sovereign immunity to the extent of the coverage of the motor vehicle insurance it purchased on the school bus, which the plaintiff's son was trying to board when anot

  • Tillman v. Mejabi

    Publication Date: 2015-04-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Conner The Conner Law Group PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Erica Parsons, Frederick Valz Carlock, Copeland Stair LLP, Andrea Dobur Worsham, Corsi, Scott Edwards, Atlanta, and G. Mason White Brennan, Harris Rominger LLP, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A1859

    The parties had reached a meeting of the minds on the essential terms of a settlement agreement, and the trial court properly ordered the plaintiff to execute a release of claims to accomplish the p