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  • DeVente v. Flora

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick D. Burkey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1166

    Under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-1 c 1 & 2, the minor decedent's posthumously born child had the exclusive right to pursue a wrongful death claim for her father's hom

  • Pritchard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Salvatore L. Schiappa III Frederick J. Hanna & Assoc., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Anne M. Kurtz District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1181

    The only evidence supporting the traffic stop was that the defendant's car was in front of a residence, which officers previously r

  • Thomas v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael L. Goldberg Field Rogers Goldberg LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shukura L. Ingram and Thomas G. Sampson II, Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Thompson, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0933

    Spoli rule as expressed in Lane v. Montgomery Elevator Co., 225 Ga. App. 523 applied in plaintiff's injury suit, arising during an escalator malfunction at the Five Points MARTA st

  • Bazin v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Holt, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Catherine H. Helms, District Attorney, and Patricia A. Pickett District Attorney's Office, Nashville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0819

    The record belied the defendant's contention that defense counsel was deficient for advising him to waive his right to a jury

  • Anti-Landfill Corp. Inc. v. North Amer. Metal Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chad R. Corlee, Homerville, and Christopher D. Britt Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Donahue and Hall J. Perloff Akerman, Senterfitt, Wickwire & Gavin, Vienna, Va., for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1113

    The plaintiff's Open Meetings Act claim based on an alleged violation of the 24-hour notice provision was unt

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  • Leftwich v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Robert A. Susor L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0736

    The extraction of the defendant's DNA upon his release from incarceration on unrelated charges did not violate his Fourth and Fifth Amendment r

  • Hilliard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul K. Cook, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, and Sandra Dutton, Assistant District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0131

    Induced error, in which a witness vouched for the aggravated sexual battery and child molestation victim's veracity, is not the basis for rev

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernard S. Brody, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and John S. Helton, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0418

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to object to the admissibility of the defendant's custodial statement, which officers obtained in violation of his Miranda rights, after the defendant repea

  • McGregor v. Columbia Nat'l Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence E. Newlin and Jeffrey N. Schwartz, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard C. Foster and Anrea Alexander Hicks, Casey & Foster PC, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0454

    The trial court did not err in ruling that the general liability policies at issue did not provide coverage for the plaintiffs' claims, since the parties' agreement specifically set forth that the

  • Anthony v. Gator Cochran Constr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Williams Johnston, Wilkin & Williams, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jay M. Sawilowsky, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0687

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendants a new trial or j.n.o.v., since the evidence supported the jury's disregard for the defendants' corporate form and entering judgment against all