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  • Newton v. Lawson

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph M. Hall Hall & Kirkland, Springfield, for Newton. Ronald W. Hallman, Claxton, for Jason Lawson. George H. Rountree and Jesse A. Van Brown Rountree & Stewart PC, Statesboro, for Christy Lawson.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1410; A11A1411

    The plaintiffs failed to prove the existence of a written contract to make a will leaving the first plaintiff a life interest in the decedent's estate, with a remainder interest to her gra

  • Kyle v. Georgia Lottery Corp.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angelo T. Merolla Merolla & Gold LLP, Atlanta, for appellants. Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Shereen M. Walls, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, R. O. Lerer Attorney General's Office, Bradley J. Harrison, and Mark S. VanderBroek Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10G1808

    The Georgia Lottery Corporation was entitled to sovereign immunity on the plaintiffs' trademark infringement claims because its purpose, function, and management are indelibly intertwined with the s

  • Aleman v. Sugarloaf Dialysis LLC

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy Hwang, Atlanta, for appellants. Richard N. Sheinis Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1328

    Some evidence would authorize a jury to find that the defendants violated the standard of medical care, which the plaintiff's expert provided, leading up to the decedent's death from complications w

  • Hawkins v. DeKalb Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Q. Bird, William B. Drummond Bird Law Group PC, James D. Summerville The Summerville Firm LLC, John W. Crongeyer Crongeyer Law Firm PC, M. Gino Brogdon Pope McGlamry Kilpatrick Morrison, and Lee T. Wallace The Wallace Law Firm, Atlanta, for Hawkins. Timothy H. Bendin, Kristin L. Hiscutt Bendin, Sumrall & Ladner LLC, Erica S. Jansen and Daniel J. Huff Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Atlanta, for DeKalb Medical Center, Inc. Other party representation: Rolfe M. Martin, Mark D. Meliski, Philippa V. Ellis Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP, Paul E. Weathington, Lindsay A. Forlines The Weathington Firm PC, Simuel F. Doster Jr. Allen Weathington & Reeves PC, Jason E. Bring Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, and Thomas E. Lavender III Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1006; A11A1007

    The plaintiff failed to adduce expert evidence giving rise to a triable issue on the specialized medical question of whether her daughter was brain dead prior to apnea testing and termination of ven

  • Simmons v. Norton

    Publication Date: 2011-11-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Byron D. Watson, Valdosta, for appellants. Walter G. Elliott II Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding PC, Valdosta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S11A1061

    The caveators failed to show that the will was the product of undue influence on the part of the exe

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  • Lewis v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Brown, Bernard Taylor Alston & Bird, and Angela Adams, Atlanta, for appellant. Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, John S. Melvin, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Michael S. Carlson, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, and Rhani M. Lott Hunton & Williams LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Charles T. Brant, Atlanta, and John H. Petrey, Decatur.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A0859

    The trial court abused its discretion in disqualifying an attorney and law firm from continued representation of the defendant in a criminal matter because the firm also represented the employer of

  • First Media Group Inc. v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2011-10-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder Wheeler & Flint LLP, and Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant. Lance A. Cooper, Marietta, and Robert K. Finnell, Rome, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1248

    Because the p ff did not have actual notice of the trial court's intended disposition of the defendant's summary judgment motion, she was entitled to voluntarily dismiss her comp

  • Leroy Village Green Residential Health Care Facility Inc. v. Downs

    Publication Date: 2011-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marlie A. McDonnell and Christopher S. Anulewicz Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark A. Hendrix Harvey & Hendrix, Richmond Hill, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0742

    In an action to domesticate and enforce a New York default judgment, New York procedural law applied to the filing of lees' answer, and since the lees did not timely serve their answer upo

  • Thompson v. Floyd

    Publication Date: 2011-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason J. Carter Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven A. Pickens, Andrew D. Stancil Mahaffey Pickens Tucker LLP, Lawrenceville, and Therese G. Franzen Franzen & Salzano PC, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0283

    Reversal of grant of summary judgment to defendant in plaintiff's breach of contract and promissory estoppel action as genuine issues of material fact remained for a jury to dete

  • Palmyra Park Hosp. Inc. v. Phoebe Sumter Med. Ctr.

    Publication Date: 2011-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley S. Jones JR. and Keri F. Conley Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for Palmyra Park Hosp. James M. Skipper Jr. Americus, John H. Parker Jr., David L. Fenstermacher, Thomas D. Watry Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Joshua B. Belinfante, June P. Veazey, Atlanta, and Richard M. Ellis Rutledge, Ecenia & Purnell, Tallahassee, Fla., for Phoebe Sumter Med. Ctr. and Phoebe Putney Mem'l Hosp. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, E. Tandy Menk, Alex F. Sponseller, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for Georgia Dep't of Community Health. Other party representation: Robert C. Threlkeld Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A0730; A11A0731; A11A0732; A11A0733

    The Georgia Department of Community Health did not exceed its statutory authority in its interpretation of the legislative intent behind the Areawide Need Exception in O.C.G.A. § 31-9-42 or in its a