• Adams v. D-Money Enters. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric E. Wyatt George W. McGriff & Assocs., Roswell, for appellants. Michael N. White Martin Snow LLP, Macon, and Clifton Boone, Sparta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A0848

    The Court vacated the grant of partial summary judgment to the plaintiff and remanded the case for clarification, given the multiplicity of claims, the lack of a stated legal basis for the trial cou

  • Brock v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. Martin Kent Brannen, Searcy & Smith LLP, Savannah, for appellant. Steven L. Morgan, Brunswick, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1250

    The defendant was entitled to summary judgment on the plaintiff's premises liability claim because the plaintiff failed to produce any evidence of the defendant's superior knowledge that his dog had

  • Odom v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry L. Duttweiler Public Defender's Office, Gainesville, for appellant. Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Wanda L. Vance, Assistant District Attorney, and Vanessa E. Sykes Hulsey, Oliver & Mahar LLP, Gainesville, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1485

    The trial court properly revoked the defendant's probation for failing to pay court-ordered restitution, since the defendant, who had not worked in three years, failed to look for work beneath his s

  • Procter v. Gwinnett Pulmonary Group PC

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Beverly R. Adams, Tucker, for appellant. Melissa R. Reading and Rolfe M. Martin Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A0972

    OCGA § 9-11-9.1 a does not require the contemporaneous filing of an expert affidavit in professional malpractice claims asserted against techni

  • Medina v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard T. Taylor Taylor & Viers, Atlanta, for appellant. Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor General, Karen M. Seeley and Ramsey R. Magaro Solicitor General's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1322

    The Mexican immigrant defendant lacked standing to challenge OCGA § 40-5-20 based on its alleged inconsistency with the 1943 Convention on the Regulation of Inter-American Automotive Tr

  • Ardis v. Fairhaven Funeral Home & Crematory Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Britt Tate Law Group LLC and Robert B. Turner Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellants. Gerald M. Edenfield Edenfield, Cox, Bruce & Classens PC and Vera S. Edenfield, Statesboro, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A0815

    The trial court properly denied a motion for class certification in a fraud case arising from a funeral home's failure to disclose fees charged for the inclusion of its logo on obituaries, since th

  • Superior Home Design LLC v. State Bank & Trust Co.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Penn The Penn Law Firm PC, Alpharetta, for appellants. Mark L. Golder Siegel & Golder, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1343

    Testimony from the bank's appraiser that the subject property was worth $280K, with a five percent margin of error, supported the trial court's finding that the sale of the property for $270K reflec

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Atlanta, for appellant. James B. Smith, District Attorney, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A0975

    The offic not required to disclose on the waiver-of-rights form potential charges faced by the defendant, since such disclosure was not relevant to the question of whether the defendant's wai

  • Butler v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sparticus D. Heyward, Marietta, for appellant. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Albert T. Reeves Jr., Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Anna G. Cross, John R. Edwards, and Amelia G. Pray District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A10A1825

    The Court vacated Butler v. State, 309 Ga. App. 86 2011, and adopted the judgment of the Supreme Court in State v. Butler, S11C1209 11/

  • Griffin Indus. Inc. v. Georgia Dep't of Agriculture

    Publication Date: 2011-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Katherine V. Hernacki Wood, Hernacki & Evans LLC, Atlanta, for appellant. Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Timothy J. Ritzka and John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1488

    Given evidence that the defendant agency did not maintain the e-mails sought by the plaintiff on its system and would have to extract them from backup tapes using a laborious compilation process, th