• Mangram v. City of Brunswick

    Publication Date: 2013-11-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nathan Williams The Williams Litigation Group PC, Brunswick, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A0755

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's action with prejudice for failure to timely serve the defendants, as the defense of insufficiency of service of process is a matter in abatement a

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

    Publication Date: 2013-11-25
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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 Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1597

    The plaintiff's ante litem notice claiming that the amount of her loss was still to be determined as the full extent of her injury was not yet known satisfied O.C.G.A. § 51-21-26 subsection a 5 E's

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli Wang and Margaret Flynt Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Arthur Walton, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1465

    After threatening his ex-girlfriend, the defendant drove up to the home where she was staying and fired a gun towards the occupied house before hitting a parked vehicle while fl

  • WellStar Health Sys. Inc. v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2013-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    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

  • Bedsole v. Action Outdoor Adver. JV LLC

    Publication Date: 2013-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott McMickle McMickle, Kurey & Branch LLP, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Lavoie, David Flint, and Mark Forsling Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A1195

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiff's claim for breach of contract, as questions of fact remained regarding whether the parties established the con

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  • Dawson v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ken Smith and John Ramay Law Offices of Ken W. Smith PC, Hazlehurst, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dawn Rivera and Albert Decusati McLain & Merritt PC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1116

    The exclusive remedy provision of the Georgia Workers' Compensation Act barred the plaintiff's claims stemming from an incident during which she was attacked, kidnapped from the store where she work

  • Kessler v. Multibank 2009-1 CRE Venture LLC

    Publication Date: 2013-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexandra Chanin, Gary Freed, Seth Litman, and Russell Rogers Thompson Hine LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Brian Levy, John Lockett Morris Manning & Martin LLP, H. Lane Young II, Jackson Dial Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, Charles Ratz Boling Rice LLC, Cumming, Holly Geerdes Geerdes & Kim, and Thomas Rowsey, Roswell, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A1529

    The D'Oench Duhme doctrine provides that oral agreements between debtors and failed banks are not enforceable against the FDIC or its succe

  • Tillman v. Vinings Bank

    Publication Date: 2013-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackson Harris, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Lee Davis Bailey Davis Brown & Sutton LLC, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1199

    The trial court did not err in finding mutual assent to the terms of the parties' settl agre

  • Stover v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Koontz, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorney, Andrew Saliba, Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, and John Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1038

    The defendant's inconsistent verdict argument based on his acquittal for the underlying crimes serving as the predicate offenses for the firearms offenses for which he was convicted was meritless, s

  • Pierre v. St. Benedict's Episcopal Day Sch.

    Publication Date: 2013-10-29
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Katherine Durant, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Carmichael and Rachel Humphrey Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1006

    Any evidence of a depa from the terms of other contracts between the parties had no bearing on the contract at issue and did not support a defense of mutual depa