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  • Rodriguez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquelyn Johnson, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0404

    Court affirms convictions and enhanced sentence for child molestation and incest even though the issue of the victim's age was not submitted to the jury

  • Wrice v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A20A0542

    Court affirms defendant's child molestation convictions over his challenges to admission of prior acts evidence

  • Allen v. CFYC Construction, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-06-02
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Beal, Nicholas Smith, (Buckley Beal LLP), Atlanta, Hugh Wood, (Wood & Meredith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hugh Wood, (Wood & Meredith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0534

    Court reverses summary judgment grant for land purchaser that did not establish a reasonable time for performance of a contract

  • Njoku et al. Adeyemi

    Publication Date: 2020-06-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contracts
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Agbor Ebot Tabi, (The Law Office of Agb or Ebot Tabi, P.C.), Acworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Mosley, (Mosley Law Offices), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0021

    Court affirms denial of defendants' summary judgment motion in a partnership dissolution dispute and remands for further proceedings on an order of accounting

  • Sturgis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gray Proctor, (Law Office of Gray Proctor), Richmond, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, Richard Caplan, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0615

    Prior Act Evidence Was Similar Enough to Incident Involving Current Victim to Help Jury Decide Whether Defendant Committed Child Molestation

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  • Fulton County v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Employment Litigation
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominique Martinez, Patrise Perkins-Hooker, Kaye Burwell, Francesca Black, (Office of the Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Radford, (Radford & Keebaugh), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0434

    Employee Was Properly Terminated After Finding and Leaving Patient Records in Open Dumpster; Employee Is Not a "Whistleblower'

  • Keen v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company

    Publication Date: 2020-04-21
    Practice Area: Personal Injury
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Holland, Jessie Harrell, (Harrell and Harrell), Jacksonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda Morris, Mark Toth, (Hall, Bloch, Garland & Meyer, LLP), Atlanta, Laurie Daniel, Matthew Friedlander, (Holland & Knight, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2154

    Personal Injury Plaintiff Submitted Enough Evidence to Survive Summary Judgment on Duty and Breach Elements of Negligence Claim Under FELA

  • Estate of Steven Fanning et al. v. Estate of Karen Fanning

    Publication Date: 2020-04-20
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Kalamaro, (The Clifton Law Firm, LLC), Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Angela Landgaard, (Slepian & Schwartz, LLC), Peachtree City, William Ney, (William Brent Ney, LLC), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2432

    Court reverses summary judgment order in a dispute over a right of first refusal for the purchase of real estate because claimant failed to provide supporting evidence

  • Moore v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-04-14
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Monroe, (Attorney at Law), Dawsonville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, Wanda Vance, (District Attorney, NEJC of GA), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A2332

    Evidence Sufficiently Supported Trafficking Conviction; Jury Properly Found That Defendant Used Coercion to Subject Victim to Sexual Servitude

  • Cate et al. v. Patterson et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-04-10
    Practice Area: Dispute Resolution
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Edwards, (Edwards Law Firm), Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin Bradford, (Benjamin T. Bradford, P.C.), La Fayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A19A1704

    Court affirms libel verdict over defendant's challenge to whether libel claims were subject to arbitration