• Georgia Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Salter's Indus. Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-27
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Bristol Hall Booth Smith & Slover PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Rawls, John Wooten Mozley Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, Edward Stabell, and Sandra Foster Brennan, Harris & Rominger LLP, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A1550

    No evidence showed that an industrial electrician's act of installing a manual switch to power a re-heater, which eventually became the origin of a warehouse fire, was a breach of any code section o

  • Mickens v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-27
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cerille Nassau, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Micheal D. Thurston, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1190

    Evidence showed that the defendant's DNA matched that of the rape victim's attacker, the defendant's DNA profile would occur in his race group once out of 200 quadrillion people, and he had committe

  • Dodson v. Walraven

    Publication Date: 2012-11-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blake Carl and Hylton Dupree Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William Pike, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1005

    The trial court erred in characterizing the financial support that the appellant received from his parents as a monthly lump-sum gift income of $3K for purposes of determining his child support obli

  • Alexander v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elizabeth Grant, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carroll Chisholm, Solicitor General, and William Fleenor Solicitor General's Office Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1044

    Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to investigate the defendant's mental health, as the defendant did not show any evidence regarding whether or how his mental condition caused or exacerba

  • Davis v. Georgia

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca Wright, District Attorney, and Charles Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1132

    In a forfeiture proceeding, the State failed to demonstrate that drugs police found on the defendant consisted of more than one gram of actual cocaine, pursuant to OCGA § 16-13-49, as the State pres

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  • Foster v. Southern Reg'l Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry D. Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lori G. Cohen, Thomas J. Mazziotti, Jessica C. Cabral Greenberg Traurig LLP, Paul E. Weathington The Weathington Firm PC, and M. Paul Reynolds Houck & Regas LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Michael Flint and John Rees Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A12A1482

    OCGA § 51-2-5.1 g 2 expressly prohibits using the fact that a physician works exclusively for one hos as evidence of an agency relationship with that hos

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley Schoolcraft Public Defender's Office, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker District Attorney's Office, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1356

    In his appeal from child molestation convictions, the defendant failed to demonstrate a reasonable probability t would not have pled guilty if his trial counsel had not disclosed to the State

  • Pate v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Williams Adams Public Defender's Office, Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Ballard, District Attorney, Thomaston, Robert Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and Jeremy Hayes District Attorney's Office, Fayetteville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A1279

    The trial court erred in imposing special conditions on the defendant's parole, as parole is a matter for the Executive B

  • Stokes & Clinton PC v. Noble Sys. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Katherine Durant, Tucker, and Pamela Moore The Moore Law Firm LLC, Daphne, Ala., for appellant.
    for defendant: Jean-Alain Schneider and Richard Robbins Robbins Freed & Ross LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A12A0893

    In this breach of contract action, the trial court erred in determining that the defendant waived the defense of insufficient service by failing to file a responsive pleading or motion prior to entr

  • Aimwell Inc. v. McLendon Enters. Inc.; McLendon Enters. Inc. v. Aimwell Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-14
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: A12A1415; A12A1416

    The employer had sole wage liability to the injured joint employee, although the customer paid the employer for the employee's services, because the employer alone paid the injured employee's wages,