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  • Sellers v. Burrowes

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Salter Jr. The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, Joshua Sacks, Atlanta, and William G. Pope, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack G. Slover Jr. and Shaun Daugherty Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1754

    The trial court did not clearly err in refusing to allow husband to introduce evidence that his wife would not have consented if she had known that the defending doctor's mortality rate was higher t

  • Piscitelli v. Hospital Auth. of Valdosta and Lowndes

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Converse Bright, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James B. Thagard Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Scott & Smith, Valdosta, and W. Brent Hyde Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, Smith & Slover PC, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2161

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's wrongful death action against a hospital based solely upon a competency determination of the plaintiff's original expert, since the hospital never

  • Roberts v. Tharp

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher T. Adams, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey R. Sliz, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1961

    The trial court erred in awarding child support without making the required written findings under O.C.G.A. § 19-6-1

  • Summerlin v. placecountry-regionGeorgiaPines Community Service Bd.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cale H. Conley Conley Griggs LLP, CityAtlanta, and C. Frederick Overby Overby Law Office PC, placeCityColumbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Jennifer L. Dalton and Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G0980

    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

  • Rasnick v. Krishna Hospitality Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Poe Warshauer, Poe & Thornton, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David F. Root and Hugh M. Ruppersburg Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2259

    A hotel owner had no duty to comply with the plaintiff's requests to check on, and possibly attempt a rescue of her husband, because the hotel owner did not create the peril and Georgia courts have

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  • Sol Melia SA v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2009-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Phillip Beggs Moore Ingram Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Nigel J. Wright and Elizabeth J. Campbell Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A2336, A09A2337, A09A2338

    The trial court erred in ruling that the long-arm statute allowed personal jurisdiction over the defendant in the plaintiffs' injury suit, arising out of an automobile collision in the Dominican Rep

  • Ball v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2009-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Lavender III The Weathington Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Lehman Franklin Jr., Statesboro, Glenn P. Hendrix, Robert T. Strang Arnall, Golden & Gregory LLP, James D. Johnson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, Wiley A. Wasden III, and Tracie G. Smith Brennan & Wasden LLP, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A2049

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-9.1 g explicitly categorizes nurses and physical therapists as separate profes

  • Sussman v. Sussman

    Publication Date: 2009-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur A. Ebbs Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kristopher Shepherd, Watkinsville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A2289

    OCGA § 19-11-163 b provides that, ' "in a proceeding for arrearages, the statute of limitation under the laws of Georgia or of the issuing state, whichever is longer, appli

  • Meli v. Hicks

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger W. Harris and Gretchen H. Wagner Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniel R. Meachum, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0957

    There was no evidence that the radiologist violated the applicable standard of care by failing to tell the orthopedic surgeon who ordered the MRI that it should have been performed with con

  • Cunningham v. Gage

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Cheshire Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Bonder Fried & Bonder and Jeffrey H. Schneider Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1278

    The plaintiffs lacked standing to bring a quia timet action, because the plaintiffs did not assert that they had title to the property at