• Holmes v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen Wilkes, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, District Attorney, and Finnis Salmon, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0184

    The trial court erred in admitting the money orders forming the basis of the first-degree forgery charges against the defendant, as the Apparent Counterfeit stamp on each constituted inadmissible he

  • Board of Comm'rs of Crisp County v. City Comm'rs of the City of Cordele

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles Jones Jones & Oliver PC, Fort Valley, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edwin Cotton, John Cotton Cotton Law Firm PC, Cordele, and Franklin Coleman Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0209

    The trial court did not err in granting summary judgment to the defendant city in the plaintiff county's action seeking to recover fees pursuant to a Waste Service Agreement, given the plain languag

  • Christy v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne L. Burnaine, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor General, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A2152

    The officer reasonably believed that the defendant violated the excessive window tinting statute, and the fact that the statute was subsequently declared unconstitutional did not render the traffic

  • Lipscomb v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa L. Smith Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0506

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to strike a juror for cause who initially indicated that she had some opinion as to guilt or innocence, since extensive further questioning es

  • Woods v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2012-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A2349

    The trial court erred in refusing to consider the plaintiff's affidavit filed in opposition to the defendant's summary judgment motion on the ground that it was not timely, since O.C.G.A. § 9-11-56

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  • PHF II Buckhead LLC v. Dinku

    Publication Date: 2012-04-06
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Glenn S. Bass Scrudder Bass Quillian Horlock Taylor & Lazarus, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James N. Sadd Slappey & Sadd LLC, Jeffrey P. Raasch Vernis & Bowling of Atlanta LLC, Atlanta, and Adam H. Long Law Office of Ian R. Rapaport, Duluth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A2033

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for new trial without first holding a hearing, where the motion clearly sought, in part, a reexamination of issues of fact regarding various e

  • Adorno v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A2272; A11A2273

    Evidence showed that the first defendant's 10-year-old and 12-year-old daughters told her several times that the second defendant was molesting them, but the first defendant did not meaningfully in

  • Pinnacle Benning LLC v. Clark Realty Capital LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus B. Calhoun Jr., William L. Tucker, Thomas F. Gristina, April H. Hocutt Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford PC, Columbus, Joe D. Whitley, Stephanie L. Oginsky and Michael J. King Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry A. Buchanan, Lori M. Leonardo Buchanan & Land, Columbus, Jeffrey L. William, Donna M. Welch and Daniel C. Moore Kirckland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellees.

    Case Number: A11A2408

    The trial court did not err in dismissing the plaintiff's derivative action for failure to make a formal demand upon the manager of the limited-liability corporation to bring the

  • Vratsinas Constr. Co. v. Chitwood

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrea A. Guariglia Hicks Casey & Foster, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bobby B. Terry Misner Scott & Martin, and James A. Rice Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A1698

    The exclusivity provisions of the Workers' Compensation Act barred the plaintiff's tort claims against the defendant general contr for injuries he sustained while working for a subcontr

  • In re Mahmoodzadeh

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark D. Lefkow Nall & Miller, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Theron D. Warren III Sellers & Warren, Woodstock, and Charles L. Day, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A2314

    The probate court erred in allowing objections to the widow's petition for year's support based solely on adverse title and denying the petition when the widow failed to meet the resulting burden of