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  • Sumner v. Batchelor

    Publication Date: 2012-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martha C. Hall Hall & Kirkland PC, Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1522

    The trial court lacked jurisdiction over the father's petition for change of child cu

  • Kerr v. OB/GYN Associates of Savannah

    Publication Date: 2012-02-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    Case Number: A11A2390

    Whether a medical assistant was negligent in allowing the plaintiff to fall off an examination table after vaccinating the plaintiff was a question of ordinary negligence, not medical negligence, so

  • Reese v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela B. Dillon Brown & Gill, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1676

    The circumstances prior to and upon the defendant's apprehension supported an inference that he knew the items in his possession were s

  • McLemore v. Genuine Parts Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-02-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew N. Pope, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen C. Collier Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1681

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of any hazard which the height of a curb presented, and the purported distraction of people attending a show in the defendant's parking lot did not obstruct her vie

  • Colotl v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee Hernan Taylor & Lee LLC, Norcross, for appellant. Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Rachel H. Bearman Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A0997

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict following her conviction for driving without a valid driver's license, as the proffered eviden

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  • Alvarez v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristin I. Patten, Trenton, for appellant. Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Kathleen J. Devine District Attorney's Office, Gainesville, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1104

    Exigent circumstances justified an officer's entry into the backyard of a home where an armed man was possibly present, and the officer was engaged in the lawful discharge of his duties when, seeing

  • Yamaha Motor Corp. USA v. McTaggart

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Monde, Atlanta, for appellants. C. Andrew Childers Childers, Schlueter & Smith LLC, Atlanta, Troy A. Rafferty and Kimberly R. Lambert Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner, Pensacola, Fla., for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1022

    The Court reversed the jury verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in their personal injury action involving an open-air, off-road vehicle and remanded the case for entry of a judgment granting the defe

  • Georgia Dep't of Corrections v. Couch

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Robert L. Bunner, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant. Thomas G. Tidwell The Tidwell Law Firm, Atlanta, and Kevin Elwell, Greenville, S.C., for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1083

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion for a directed verdict on the plaintiff's premises liability claim, as conflicting evidence existed regarding the plaintiff's status as

  • Adams v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Trieshmann, Atlanta, for appellant. Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, and Jeremy D. Clough, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A11A1266

    In a case involving a defendant's arrest after arranging on-line to meet an undercover investigator for sex, the trial court's jury charge on the offense of criminal attempt to entice a child for i

  • Williams v. Capitol Corp. Cleaning Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Daugherty and Laura H. Mirmelli Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank, Atlanta, for appellant. James W. Hardee Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1229

    In a slip and fall case, the trial court did not err by instructing the jury that where a defendant is an independent contractor performing janitorial services, it has no independent duty to inspect