• C. P. R. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ.

    Publication Date: 2014-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Dickerson, Phyllis Holmen, Lisa Krisher Georgia Legal Services Program, and Shelly Anand U.S. Department of Labor-Office of the Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Santana Flanigan, Lajuana Ransaw, and A. Jackson Welch III Smith Welch Webb & White, LLC, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A1376

    The evidence supported the conclusion that the high school student violated the student handbook when he brought Tylenol 3 pills to school and attempted to sell them to other stu

  • McLaughlin v. Payne

    Publication Date: 2014-07-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: August F. Siemon III, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0220

    Because istrict attorney was wholly disqualified from the case, the assistant district attorneys on his staff—whose only power to prosecute a case is derived from the constitutional authority o

  • Adame v. Hernandez

    Publication Date: 2014-07-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Meaney Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto PC, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cynthia Gibson and Sarah Morris Georgia Legal Services Program, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A0150

    The trial court erred in modifying the father's existing child support obligation without making the required fin

  • Miller v. Deal

    Publication Date: 2014-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Atteeyah E. Hollie, Sarah E. Geraghty Southern Center For Human Rights, and Gerald R. Weber Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Jason S. Naunas, and Mark J. Cicero, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S13G1197

    The named plaintiffs did not meet the commonality and typicality requirements for class certification in a suit alleging that they were denied government-funded counsel while facing incarceration i

  • In the Matter of Fred T. Hanzelik

    Publication Date: 2014-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: S14Y0549; S14Y0550

    The Supreme Court suspended an attorney as reciprocal discipline for his suspension in Tenn

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  • Fulton Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. D. R. H.

    Publication Date: 2013-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neeru Gupta and Suzann Jiles Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen Reba Barton Child Law and Policy Center, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Curiae: Shelly Anand Georgia Legal Services Program, Atlanta, and Phillip Hartley, Gainesville.

    Case Number: A13A1636

    The superior court erred in directing the State Board of Education to vacate the adjudication of the County Board of Education, as it failed to confine its review to the record or the issues raised

  • Weeks v. Weeks

    Publication Date: 2013-11-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessie Altman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Hoelting McCurdy & Candler LLC, and Jean Kutner, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1135

    The trial court erred in awarding the father $3K in attorneys' fees, as nothing in the record or transcript of the contempt hearing established how these fees were calculated, their statutory basis

  • WellStar Health Sys. Inc. v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2013-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: A13A1417; A13A1418

    The Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of the medical malpractice plaintiff's motion to disqualify the defendant's counsel for tampering with her expert wi

  • In the Interest of A. M.

    Publication Date: 2013-11-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Calandra Harps, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Bruce Kling, Dalton, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1553

    Evidence about the parents' residency 'was neither "newly discovered" nor a "change in circumstances that established that it would be in the best interest of the children to change, modify, or vac

  • Cooper v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine Mason, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Mallard, District Attorney, and Joseph Black, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1467

    The State had not yet had the opportunity to rebut the defendant's argument, raised for the first time on appeal, that the trial court erred in conducting a bench trial without first determining whe