• Baker v. Wellstar Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Manton The Manton Law Firm LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry D. Green Jr. and Mary P. Adams Green & Sapp LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Traci G. Courville Oates & Courville, Columbus, and J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Atlanta. Amicus Appellees: Thomas S. Carlock, Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Brian W. Looby, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Ass'n of Ga., Simuel F. Doster Jr. and Hunter S. Allen Jr. Allen, McCain & O'Mahoney PC, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S10A0994

    The qualified protective order granted in this case was too broad, because the order should have limited the defendant's inquiry to matters relevant to the plaintiff's medical condition, which are a

  • Rescigno v. Vesali

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis Levenson Louis Levenson & Assocs., Atlanta, for Rescigno. Louis R. Cohan and David B. Weinberg Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for Vesali.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A10A1351, A10A1352

    The trial court did not err in denying the plaintiff's motion to disqualify the defendant's attorney and his firm, because another attorney at the same firm represented the plaintiff in defense of a

  • Mariner Health Care Management Co. v. Sovereign Healthcare LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Reilly and Brian P. Watt Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for Mariner Health. Michael J. King Greenburg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, Nancy I. Jordan and Charles M. Dalziel Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC, Marietta, for Sovereign Healthcare.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A10A1642, A10A1679

    The trial court erred in finding that the liquidated damages provision in the parties' administrative services contract was unenforceable under the circumst

  • Anderson v. Mountain Mgmt. Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clifton M. Patty Jr., Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sharel L. Van Sandt, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A1005

    The trial court erred in excluding the plaintiff's proposed expert nurse witness in his nursing malpractice action, since she had regularly engaged in the active practice of managing patient safety

  • Greene v. Greene

    Publication Date: 2010-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charla E. Strawser Callner, Portnoy & Strawser PC, Atlanta, for Mark C. Greene. Alan Mullinax Alan Mullinax & Associates PC and Tamela L. Adkins Adkins Law, Lawrenceville, for Alla Y. Greene.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A10A1463; A10A1464

    The Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of the wife's contempt motion against her ex-husband for exposing the parties' daughter to Christianity in violation of the terms of their settlement agreemen

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  • Ga. Pines Community Serv. Bd. v. Summerlin

    Publication Date: 2010-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cale H. Conley, Richard A. Griggs Conley Griggs LLP, Atlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, Columbus, for appellee.

    Case Number: A08A1823

    The General Assembly did not include a separate definition of the term employee within the GTCA, the Assembly presumably meant for courts to apply the n law meaning of that term in cases and th

  • Ware v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Lenora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0503

    Sufficient evidence supported the defendant's conviction for a violation of Crimes Against the Elderly Act, since the evidence showed that the victim was not a resident of a long-term care facility

  • Klardie v. Klardie

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth J. Kuhn Hait & Eichelzer, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger M. Johnson Bray & Johnson, Canton, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10F0451

    The doctrine of judicial estoppel did not apply to the wife's claim to a share of her retirement accounts, since the husband did not show that the accounts were not excludable or exempt from the wif

  • Willis v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory A. Hicks, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A0393

    The defendant's verbal and written confessions supported his convictions for murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, robbery and bur

  • Estate of Shannon v. Ahmed

    Publication Date: 2010-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terrence A. Shannon, Porterdale, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kirby G. Mason Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Joseph P. Brennan, B. Nicole Smith Brennan & Wasden LLP, Christopher L. Ray Oliver Maner LLP, Savannah, and Michael G. Frick Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Brunswick, for appellees.

    Case Number: A10A0917

    The plaintiffs complaint adequately pled fraud, battery and wrongful death against doctors and others involved in the decedent's care, after the decedent twice aspirated, biting off a portion of his