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  • Haynes v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Donnelly, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Mauldin, District Attorney, and Brian Patterson, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2255

    The indictment was ambiguous as to whether it alleged the felony or misdemeanor version of tamp with evidence and the trial court erred in sentencing the defendant for felony tamp

  • Kids R Kids Int'l Inc. v. Cope

    Publication Date: 2015-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Freeman, Donald Grate Freeman Mathis Gary, and Michael Eshman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Veronica Cope The Cope Law Firm PC, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A2241

    The franchisor was not vicariously liable for its franchisee's alleged negligence and was therefore entitled to summary judgment in the plaintiff's personal injury a

  • ABF Freight Sys. Inc. v. Presley

    Publication Date: 2015-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Smith Swift, Currie, McGhee Hiers LLP, and William Anderson Hamilton, Westby, Marshall Antonowich, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd Maziar, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Douglas Witten State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A14A1723

    The evidence supported the State Board of Workers' Compensation's denial of benefits to the claimant, and the superior court improperly substituted its factual findings for those of the Board in re

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Pearlman Public Defender's Office, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian Patterson, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Emily Norris, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1942

    The arresting officer properly seized drug evidence from the defendant's car during an inventory search prior to impounding the vehicle, since the officer had validly stopped the defendant for a tra

  • Hawkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Page Pate and Jess Johnson The Pate Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2359

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's second petiti removal from sex offender registration requirements pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 42-1-19 subsection b 3, as the defendant's first petit

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  • Fulton Cnty. v. Dillard Land Invs. LLC

    Publication Date: 2015-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Rosenberg, Assistant Fulton Cnty. Attorney, and Larry Ramsey Fulton Cnty. Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas MacGinnitie, Georgia Dep't of Revenue Commissioner, Charles Pursley, Angela Robinson, Christian Torgrimson Pursley Friese Torgrimson LLP, Douglas Henderson Troutman Sanders, J. Houston Lennard, Atlanta, Thomas Bowman Maddox Starnes Nix, Conyers, William Gilmore, Athens, and DeWayne Vaughn, Snellville, for appellees. Other party representation: William Castings City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Pinkie Toomer Fulton Cnty. Probate Court, Atlanta, and William Turner Turner Ross LLC, Marietta.
    Case Number: A13A0562

    A condemnor is not entitled to unilaterally voluntarily dismiss a condemnation action once the special master renders his award valuing the property at

  • Myers v. Board of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2015-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barton Solomon and Jay McCurdy McMahan Law Firm LLC, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Ronald Boyter, Assistant Attorney General, and Sharon Horne Mozley, Finlayson Loggins, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1597

    The plaintiff's ante litem notice, which stated that the amount of her loss was yet to be determined because she was still incurring medical bills and did not know the full extent of her injury, was

  • Schaff v. Snapping Shoals Elec. Membership Corp.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David Rhodes, William Horlock Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, Hugh McNatt, and Hugh Peterson McNatt, Greene & Peterson PC, Vidalia, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1045

    The electric membership corporation was entitled to summary judgment in the plaintiff's negligence lawsuit, although the corporation owned the utility pole on which the plaintiff was working when a

  • Blake v. KES Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby Aniekwu, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jatrean Sanders, Christopher Gunnels, and Thomas Sippel Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A0995

    A trial court is authorized to rely on deposition excerpts filed by a party in support of a motion, even if they are not certified c

  • Bonner-Hill v. Southland Waste Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Welsh Buzzell, Graham & Welsh LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephanie Rockwell Speed, Seta & Waters LLC, Lawrenceville, for appellee. Other party representation: Douglas Witten State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A14A0931

    The plaintiff was entitled to workers' compensation benefits pursuant to the ingress/egress rule following her husband's death, as the decedent had arrived at his employer's premises when the fatal