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  • Harris v. Peterson

    Publication Date: 2012-11-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marla Chambless, Dawson, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Durham and Julee Lewis, Cuthbert, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0863

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the third-party defendant on a claim that she committed fraud in using a power of attorney to convey certain pro

  • Hargrove v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cedric B. Davis Adams & Jordan PC, and Walter C. Green II, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Stephen A. Bradley, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Eatonton, Daniel B. Cochran District Attorney's Office, Monticello, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1081

    The defendant fatally shot a confidential informant multiple times in his head and ab

  • Racette v. Bank of Am. N. A.

    Publication Date: 2012-10-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Blum Beloin & Associates LLC, Atlanta, and Schuyler Elliott, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew Phillips, Robert Waddell McGuire Woods LLP, Lawrence Kelly, Austin James Johnson & Freedman LLC, Atlanta, Adam Altman McGuire Woods LLP, Charlotte, N.C., and John Anderson McGuire Woods LLP, Wilmington, N.C., for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A1499

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiffs' wrongful foreclosure claim, as they may be able to introduce evidence supporting a conclusion that inaccurate statements in the public foreclosure

  • Howser Mill Homes LLC v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Gilliam and Keith Whitaker Smith, Gilliam, Williams & Miles PA, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sean Gordon and Jack Lundstedt Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1617

    Where the plaintiff lender voluntarily dismissed its application for confirmation before the entry of a final order, and then started new foreclosure proceedings, OCGA § 44-14-161 c did not require

  • In the Matter of Christopher T. Adams

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S12Y1545

    The Supreme Court accepted an attorney's petition for voluntary discipline but imposed an 18-month suspension rather than the 6-month suspension requested, after the attorney was indicted on 17 coun

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  • Lopez-Jiminez v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Crosby, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel Porter, District Attorney, and Michael Morrison, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1473

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to raise a futile motion to suppress methamphetamine and related evidence, which officers seized from the defendant's residence pursuant to a valid sear

  • In the Matter of Wendel L. Bowie

    Publication Date: 2012-10-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S12Y1407; S12Y1640; S12Y1641

    The Supreme Court disbarred an attorney who failed to properly disperse and account for his clients' funds and to record property deeds in real estate transac

  • Postell v. Bd. of Comm'rs of Houston County

    Publication Date: 2012-09-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
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    Case Number: A12A1334

    The plaintiff did not show that he had any right to his late great-grandfather's property prior to title passing to the county under a condemnation thus he lacked standing to object to the

  • Stowers v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Nix, Robert Maddox and Robert Zoeckler Maddox, Nix, Bowman & Zoeckler PC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin Quirk Quirk & Quirk LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1176

    The defendant bank properly rescinded a foreclosure sale where the notice of foreclosure sale to its debtor was defective for not identifying the individual with full authority to negotiate and mod

  • Holloway v. U. S. Bank Trust Nat'l Ass'n

    Publication Date: 2012-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Killian Killian & Boyd PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Ferrier Ferrier & Ferrier, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0660

    The record on appeal contained no evidence about the specific nature of the alleged fraud that occurred in a deed conveyance, thus the bank could not show that it received a valid title to the prop