• In re Baska

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emilien O. Loiselle Jr., Dacula, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick, Ann S. Brumbaugh, Assistant Attorneys General, and Sarah E. Lockwood Office of Bar Admissions, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S07Z0422

    The record supported the decision of the Board to Determine Fitness for Bar Applications that the applicant lacked candor when he stated that he never tried to hide following the revocation of his

  • Putzel Elec. Contractors Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Napier Murphy and William R. Shelton Jr. Murphy & Sibley PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry S. Barnett, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell Board of Workers' Compensation, and Mark J. Goodman Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A06A1039

    The employee's workers' compensation claim for work-related asbestosis was timely filed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 34-9-281, since he filed it within one year of first learning of the causal connection

  • Layfield v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alfred N. Corriere, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy J. Buckley III, Kelly R. Webb Finley & Buckley PC, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reagan W. Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A04A1786

    An expert's opinion regarding the proximate cause of an accident was not speculative and the expert's credibility was a matter for the jury to d

  • In the Interest of M. R.

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul M. Ledbetter, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John J. Martin, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A1059

    Clear and convincing evidence supported the juvenile court's determination that the children's deprivation would continue, despite the father's recent efforts to comply with his reunification case

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  • H. D. McCondichie Properties v. Georgia Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert and Jonathan E. Ganz Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0426

    The trial court properly excluded evidence that the DOT originally hired an expert the appellant late subpoenaed, since the issue of who originally hired the expert was irrelevant to the issue of j

  • Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Daniels

    Publication Date: 2006-06-16
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marvin W. McGahee Brennan & Wasden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raymond S. Gordon Jr. and W. Jefferson Hires Gordon & Hires, Jesup, for appellees. Other party representation: William B. Johnson, Jesup, Clyde M. Urquhart, James E. Stein, St. Marys, William M. McHugh Jr. and James B. Durham Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick.

    Case Number: A06A0337

    The "rentee" exclusion to the commercial lines excess insurance policy at issue did not apply to the driver of a fatal 1-vehicle accident, since she drove the rental car permissibly and without payi

  • Cox v. Athens Reg'l Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis T .Cathy, Edward E. Strain III, David A. Sleppy Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, Bryan A. Vroon and John W. Crongeyer Vroon & Crongeyer LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, and Edward D. Robertson Jr. Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz PC, Jefferson City, Mo., for appellee.

    Case Number: A06A0341

    The plaintiffs were not entitled to declaratory relief, since all possible rights between the parties had accrued and all possible obligations had att

  • Henson v. Tucker

    Publication Date: 2006-04-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. Capo and Larry K. Butler Butler & Capo, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Eugene B. Chambers Jr. Roach, Hasty & Geiger, Canton, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A1735

    The defendants did not acquire prescriptive title to the disputed 5.9 acres of land by building a driveway less than seven years before the plaintiffs filed their quiet title

  • Stinchcomb v. Wright d/b/a Ray Wright Homes Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-31
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold T. Daniel Jr., Laurie W. Daniel, Tiffani Z. Moody, Lindsey G. Churchill and Kelli S. Lott Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John C. Rogers, Johannes S. Kingma Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Atlanta, and James E. Bischoff Bischoff & White PC, Fayetteville, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A2253

    The trial court did not err in granting summary judgment to the plaintiff builders on the defendant real estate developer's counterclaim for breach of contract because the defendant failed to presen