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  • Oates v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-07-08
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Lock, (David T. Lock, LLC), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Heap, Emily Puhala, (District Attorney), Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0282

    Court affirms rape, statutory rape, and child molestation convictions over defendant's contentions of insufficient evidence and trial court error

  • McCall v. Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

    Publication Date: 2020-07-02
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Personal Injury
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cale Conley, Scott Farrow, William Owens, (Conley Griggs Partin, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher Anulewicz, (Balch & Bingham LLP), Atlanta, Patrick Arndt, George Neuhauser, (Nall & Miller, LLP), Atlanta, Douglas Horelick, (Clyde & Co US LLP), Miami, for appellee. Rian Ervin, (The Suggs Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta, Neal Scott, (Law Office of Terry-Dawn Thomas), Atlanta, for other party.
    Case Number: A20A0933

    Court reverses order that granted foreign corporation's motion to dismiss on personal jurisdiction grounds because that corporation was a resident for purposes of personal jurisdiction

  • Zeigler v. Zeigler et al.

    Publication Date: 2020-07-01
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Damon Zeigler, (Johnson State Prison), Wrightsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cynthia Zeigler, Helen Blackshear, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0399

    Court reverse trial court's denial of a prisoner's motion to compel the Bureau of Prisons to transport him to a civil court and remands for a hearing on the matter

  • Mule v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-25
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua Weiss, (Cavett, Abbott & Weiss, PLLC), Chattanooga, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Clements, (Walker County Solicitor General's Office), Lafayette, Alan Norton, (Luther-Anderson, PLLP), Chattanooga, Christopher Townley, (Attorney at Law), Rossville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0458

    Court affirms conviction for reckless driving over defendant's multiple contentions of error

  • Rodriguez v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney Zell, (Zell & Zell, P.C.), Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jacquelyn Johnson, Thomas Buscemi, (District Attorney's Office, Brunswick Judicial Circuit), Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0404

    Court affirms convictions and enhanced sentence for child molestation and incest even though the issue of the victim's age was not submitted to the jury

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  • Wrice v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-06-02
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
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    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
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    Case Number: A20A0542

    Court affirms defendant's child molestation convictions over his challenges to admission of prior acts evidence

  • Allen v. CFYC Construction, LLC

    Publication Date: 2020-06-02
    Practice Area: Contracts
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Beal, Nicholas Smith, (Buckley Beal LLP), Atlanta, Hugh Wood, (Wood & Meredith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hugh Wood, (Wood & Meredith, LLP), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0534

    Court reverses summary judgment grant for land purchaser that did not establish a reasonable time for performance of a contract

  • Njoku et al. Adeyemi

    Publication Date: 2020-06-01
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Contracts
    Industry: Health Care
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Agbor Ebot Tabi, (The Law Office of Agb or Ebot Tabi, P.C.), Acworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Mosley, (Mosley Law Offices), Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0021

    Court affirms denial of defendants' summary judgment motion in a partnership dissolution dispute and remands for further proceedings on an order of accounting

  • Sturgis v. The State

    Publication Date: 2020-05-28
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gray Proctor, (Law Office of Gray Proctor), Richmond, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Howard, Richard Caplan, (Office of the Fulton County District Attorney), Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0615

    Prior Act Evidence Was Similar Enough to Incident Involving Current Victim to Help Jury Decide Whether Defendant Committed Child Molestation

  • Fulton County v. Berry

    Publication Date: 2020-05-27
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Employment Litigation
    Industry:
    Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Mercier
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dominique Martinez, Patrise Perkins-Hooker, Kaye Burwell, Francesca Black, (Office of the Fulton County Attorney), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Radford, (Radford & Keebaugh), Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A20A0434

    Employee Was Properly Terminated After Finding and Leaving Patient Records in Open Dumpster; Employee Is Not a "Whistleblower'