• 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:
    for defendant:

    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

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  • In the Matter of James F. Steckbauer

    Publication Date: 2013-10-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S13Y0219; S13Y0220; S13Y0221

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney for violating several of the Georgia Rules of Professional Conduct in connection with three Notices of Disci

  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lorie Williams-Smith Georgia Legal Services, Adel, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Jessica Clark, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1239

    The victim's testimony alone was sufficient to sustain the defendant's armed robbery convi

  • McGee v. Patterson

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A13A0038

    The trial court erred in concluding that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring an action against the board of directors of their homeowners' association because they had not yet paid an increased

  • Pulte Home v. Simerly

    Publication Date: 2013-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Galanek, Laura Williams, and Eric Schroeder Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Simon Bloom The Bloom Sugarman Everett LLP, Martin Shelton Scoggins & Goodman PC, Donald Stack Stack & Associates PC, Atlanta, and Michael Carvalho Carvalho & Associates PC, Marietta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A0065

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion in limine to preclude the plaintiffs' counsel from testifying at trial regarding the spoliation of certain evidence that occurred during

  • In Re Formal Advisory Opinion 10-1

    Publication Date: 2013-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Stefan E. Ritter, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Michael L. Edwards Public Defender's Office, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: James F. Grubiak Association of County Commissioners of Georgia, Atlanta, and Elizabeth P. Bradley, Marietta. Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, Robert E. McCormack III, Deputy General Counsel, John J. Shiptenko, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta, and James B. Ellington Hull Barrett PC, Augusta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Stephen B. Bright, Melanie Velez, Atteeyah E. Hollie Southern Center for Human Rights, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Atlanta, J. Scott Key, Decatur, Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, Russell C. Gabriel, Bogart, and George P. Donaldson III Perry & Walters LLP, Albany.

    Case Number: S10U1679

    A single public defender's impermissible conflict of interest related to representing co-defendants is imputed to all public defenders working in the circuit public defender office of that particula