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  • In the Interest of B.H.-W.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karimah Boston Boston Legal Consultant Group LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Melanie D. F. Thompson Fenwick Thompson Associates LLC, Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0613

    The Court affirmed the trial court's grant of the father's petition to legitimate his 10-month-old child, the placement of the child with the father and the dismissal of a third-party petition for p

  • In the Interest of D. H.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clare Nolan Public Defender's Office, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Milam, District Attorney, and Anita Reynolds District Attorney's Office, Jackson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0749

    The juvenile court properly dismissed the juvenile's motion for various kinds of relief after he was adjudicated delinquent and committed to the Department of Juvenile Ju

  • El-Fatin v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Deborah Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0224

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for loitering or prowling after officers found him standing behind a condominium complex holding a sword in pre-dawn

  • Cheeley Invs. LP v. Zambetti

    Publication Date: 2015-06-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cale Conley, Andre Tennille Conley Griggs Partin LLP, Atlanta, and Dana Miles Miles Patterson Hansford Tallant LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew Becker Merbaum Law Group PC, Alpharetta, and Jeffrey Evans, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1771

    Genuine issues of material fact remained as to the plaintiffs' breach of contract and promissory estoppel claims related to an alleged oral agre

  • Gaslowitz v. Stabilis Fund I LP

    Publication Date: 2015-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: LeAnne Gilbert and Craig Frankel Gaslowitz Frankel LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ted Hight and Kevin Kovalchik Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp Nasuti PC, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2029; A15A0433

    O.C.G.A. § 14-11-504 subsection a does not reasonably require that, as a prerequisite to the issuance of a charging order, the judgment creditor establish the specific amount of the judgment that re

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  • Evans v. Sangster

    Publication Date: 2015-02-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Edward Meeks Jr., Leesburg, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrea Seliski, Atlanta, and John Cotton Cotton Law Firm PC, Cordele, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A2110; A15A0079

    The trial court erred in declining to change the child's surname as requested in the petition for step-parent ado

  • Hooks v. McCondichie Properties 1 LP

    Publication Date: 2015-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Balli, Justin Meeks Sams Larkin Huff LLP, Marietta, and David Ralston, Blue Ridge, for Hooks. Sun Choy, Seth Kirby Freeman Mathis Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Jack Hancock Freeman Mathis Gary LLP, Forest Park, for McCondichie Properties 1 LP.
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    Case Number: A14A2238; A14A2333

    The trial court erred in finding that the plaintiff failed to comply fully with O.C.G.A. § 14-9-104 g in perfecting substituted service upon the Secretary of State, as the plaintiff was not obligate

  • McNair v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John Kraft, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, and Madonna M. Little, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1814

    A witness's prior out-of-court statements regarding whether he rented a vehicle involved in several robberies to the defendant were properly admitted for impeachment purposes, since the witness deni

  • Wright v. Waterberg Big Game Hunting Lodge Otjahewita Pty Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2015-01-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael D. Barber, Atlanta, and Eric A. Ballinger, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: James M. Johnson Knight Johnson LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2130

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's breach of contract claim against an African safari company after the company canceled portions of a hunting trip the plaintiff won in an auction f

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ellington, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Page Pate and Jess Johnson The Pate Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth Mauldin, District Attorney, and Jon Forwood, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2284

    No exigent circumstances supported the warrantless search of the defendant's cell phone, which gave rise to 12 charges of possessing a lewd depiction of a minor child agains