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  • State v. Padgett

    Publication Date: 2014-12-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nina Baker, Solicitor General, and Julian Mack Solicitor General's Office, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald Ellington Virgil L. Brown & Associates, Zebulon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1002

    A blood test requested by a law enforcement officer but performed by a hospital is considered "State-administered," and thus is subject to the procedural requirements of O.C.G.A. § 40-6-392

  • Alizota v. Stanfield

    Publication Date: 2014-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Justin Grubbs Grubbs Law Firm LLC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Outman, Atlanta, and Stephen Ott, Fayetteville, for appellees. Other party representation: Anne Myers and Lloyd Walker, Peachtree City.
    Case Number: A12A0981

    A finding of deprivation cannot be based on evidence that a custodial parent may be forced to return to his country of origin or because he does not have a driver's li

  • Hill v. Kone Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert N. Katz and Briant G. Mildenhall Katz Stepp Wright & Fleming LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: John W. Campbell, Pamela N. Lee Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph D. Perrotta Dodson & Associates, Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1241

    The record contained factual issues as to whether the correct elevator was taken out of service and inspected, as required under O.C.G.A. § 8-2-106 c, after the plaintiff tripped and

  • Department of Transp. v. Jarvie

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Robert L. Bunner Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert B. Turner Savage & Turner, David M. Conner The Conner Law Group PC, Ashleigh R. Madison Southeast Law LLC, Savannah, and Richard A. Brown Jr. Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A0887

    The Georgia DOT was entitled to sovereign immunity on the plaintiffs' claims alleging that it negligently allowed its general contractor to design, install and use a dangerous stockpile of aggregate

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Harrison, Public Defender, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, John A. Fitzner III, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Mary K. McKinnon, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1228

    Defense counsel was deficient in failing to object to the trial court's questioning of the defendant's alleged accomplice about his truthfulness, since the trial court's questions clearly intimated

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  • Beamon v. Mahadevan

    Publication Date: 2014-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander Simanovsky and Zachary C. Meeks Alex Simanovsky & Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gary R. McCain and Joscelyn M. Hughes Allen McCain & O'Mahony PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0947

    Plaintiffs' suit for medical malpractice and loss of consortium was barred by O.C.G.A. § 9-3-71 subsection a's 2-year statute of limit

  • Thomas v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2014-12-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenda Youmas, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney Davis, Warner Robins, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A1205

    The trial court deprived the plaintiff of its right to due process by prohibiting the presentation of witnesses and evidence to support its claims at the evidentiary hearing, instead limiting the he

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    Case Number: A14A1358; A14A2061

    There was no substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification, pretermitting whether the on-scene showup was inherently sugge

  • Charales v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Sullivan Chestney Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmen Smith, Solicitor General, and R. Leon Benham, Assistant Solicitor General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1040

    The State failed to prove that the Atlanta Police Department's checkpoint program as a whole had an appropriate primary purpose and the trial court therefore erred in denying the defendant's motion

  • State v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2014-12-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry Morgan, Solicitor General, and Diana Simmons Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Frye, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1127

    The DUI defendant's arguments regarding proper administration of walk and turn and one leg stand dexterity tests went to the weight, not to the admissibility, of the evidence, since such tests do no