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  • Zarate-Martinez v. Echemendia

    Publication Date: 2016-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly B. Bates Bates Baum, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Huff, Taylor M. Tribble, and Randolph P. Powell Jr. Huff, Powell Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S15G1446

    The Supreme Court vacated the trial court's dismissal of a medical malpractice complaint based on its finding that the plaintiff failed to comply with the expert affidavit requirement and remanded t

  • Scapa Dryer Fabrics Inc. v. Knight

    Publication Date: 2016-07-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick Duane Morris LLC, M. Elizabeth O'Neill, H. Lane Young II Hawkins Parnell Thackston Young LLP, Atlanta, J. D. Smith, Gainesville, and Robert B. Gilbreath Hawkins Parnell Thackston Young LLP, Dallas, TX, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: William V. Custer IV Bryan Cave LLP, Atlanta, Mark W. Wortham Hall Booth Smith PC, Columbus, and William Anderson Crowell Morning LLP, Washington, DC. Robert C. Buck Buck Law Firm, Atlanta, and Denyse F. Clancy Kazan, McClain, Satterley Greenwood, Oakland, CA, for appellees. Amicus Appellees: J. Phillip Boston, Athens.
    Case Number: S15G1278

    The trial court abused its discretion in admitting certain expert testimony in a toxic tort suit, because the opinion the expert offered did not fit the legal standard for

  • In the Matter of George D. Houser

    Publication Date: 2016-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Jenny K. Mittelman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. George Houser, Ashland. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Bryan M. Cavan Miller Martin PLLC, and Thomas L. Holder Long Holder, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S16Y1176

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney for violating Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 subsection a 2 based on his convictions for one felony count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud,

  • Mayor City Council of the City of Richmond Hill v. Maia

    Publication Date: 2016-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick O'Connor, Benjamin Perkins Oliver Maner LLP, Savannah, and Ray Smith, Richmond Hill, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Billy Jones and Carl Varnedoe Jones, Osteen Jones, Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A15A2334

    The trial court erred in denying the defendants' motion for summary judgment on the plaintiff's claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and pain and suffering ar

  • Smith v. Northside Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucas Andrews, Peter Canfield, Samantha Mandell, Rebekah Plowman, Daniel Conner, and Laura Gura Jones Day, Atlanta, for Smith. Thurbert Baker, James Rawls McKenna Long Aldridge LLP, Stephen Bauer, Ian Byrnside Baker Hostetler LLP, Bryan Bates, Nathan Garroway, James Evans Dentons US LLP, Susan Sommers Northside Hosp. Inc., Charles Huddleston, S. Wade Malone, Jessica Rutledge Nelson Mullins Riley Scarborough LLP, Jeremy Burnette Polsinelli PC, Sidney Welch Kilpatrick Townsend Stockton LLP, Edward Konieczny, Atlanta, Geoffrey Raux, and Stephen Quinlan Foley Lardner LLP, Boston, MA, for Northside Hosp. Inc.. Amicus Curiae: David Hudson Hull Barrett PC, Augusta.
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    Case Number: A15A2303; A15A2304

    The trial court properly found that documents an attorney requested related to a hospital's acquisition of four private entities were not subject to the Georgia Open Records Act, because the hospita

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  • Tricoli v. Watts

    Publication Date: 2016-06-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Humphreys, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kathleen Pacious, Dennis Dunn, Deputy Attorneys General, Loretta Pinkston, Annette Cowart, Christopher McGraw, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Claude Sitton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A15A2256

    Since waiver of eign immunity for a breach of contract action requires a written contract and the plaintiff failed to prove the existence of a valid, written employment contract, the doctrine o

  • In the Interest of the Estate of Joe Leonard Jr.

    Publication Date: 2016-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy Allred and R. Leslie Waycaster Jr., Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Rodham and Ronald Womack Womack, Gottlieb Rodham PC, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A1802

    The plaintiff failed to comply with statutory requirements for presentment of his ante litem notice, and the trial court therefore properly granted summary judgment to the county in the plaintiff's

  • Hill v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2016-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, Gilbert Deitch Deitch Rogers LLC, and George Spears, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven Rosenberg, Assistant County Attorney, Walter Yarbrough County Attorney's Office, Theodore Freeman, Wayne Melnick Freeman Mathis Gary LLP, Anita Thomas, Eliyahu Wolfe Nelson, Mullins, Riley Scarborough LLP, Atlanta, Shaun Daugherty, and Jennifer Viel Coles Barton LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A15A1778

    The trial court erred in finding that certain employees of the Fulton County Sheriff's Office were entitled to official immunity in a wrongful death suit arising after a man committed suicide while

  • Jordan v. State of GA

    Publication Date: 2016-05-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yvonne Godfrey, Jeffrey Harris, Darren Penn, Jed Manton Harris Penn Lowry LLP, Atlanta, Stephen Lowry Harris Penn Lowry LLP, Savannah, Michael Clark Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp Nasuti PC, Norcross, and James Franklin Franklin Law LLC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Nancy Allstrom Attorney General's Office, Sara Vann Rogers Hardin LLP, and Kevin Bradberry Baker Hostetler LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A1733

    Res judicata barred the plaintiffs' state suit on behalf of the State of Georgia against three related pharmaceutical companies under the Georgia False Medicaid Claims Act, O.C.G.A. § 49-4-168 et se

  • Columbus, GA, Board of Tax Assessors v. The Med. Ctr. Hosp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2016-05-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Meeks, Charles Palmer Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, and Robert Lomax, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Rothschild and Jerome Rothschild Rothschild Rothschild PC, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A2407

    The hospital auth s property was exempt from ad valorem taxation because the parcels of land at issue furthered the legitimate function of the hospital auth