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  • Smith v. Cisco

    Publication Date: 2012-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brent Savage and Kathryn Pinckney Savage, Turner, Pinckney, & Madison, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jacquelyn Johnson, District Attorney, Nathan Williams Clark & Williams PC, Steven Blackerby, Terry Readdick, Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick, and Andrew Ekonomou The Lambros Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0313; A12A0314

    In a state forfeiture action, the plaintiffs lacked standing to participate in the state's decision-making process concerning which property should be forf

  • In the Interest of C. A.

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine Jones, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Hawkins, Forsyth, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0431

    In determining whether the mother's lack of parental control was likely to continue, the juvenile court could not consider hearsay statements or rely on the diagnostic opinion of third parties not a

  • 3 W. Invs. LLC v. Hamilton State Bank

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Flint, Robert Snyder Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP and Jared Heald, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edward Hine, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0240

    The confirmation requirement of O.C.G.A. § 44-14-161a did not apply in this case because the loan for which the plaintiff sought to recover the outstanding balance was not inextricably intertwined w

  • Abundant Animal Care LLC a/k/a Animal Kingdom Veterinary Hosp. v. Gray

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hollis Cobb Law Offices of F. C. Schenck, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Philip Price Abernathy and Assocs., Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0571

    An animal care clinic was not liable for personal injury following a dog bite because it was not foreseeable that the dog with no prior vicious or dangerous propensity would bite a

  • Feldman v. Arcadis US Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Stone, Blakely, and Emily Brantley, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Russell Beets Kilpatrick Townsend LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph Huff Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0553

    A section of roadway constituted an improvement to real property thus the 8-year statute of repose codified in O.C.G.A. § 9-3-51 barred recovery in an action for negligent planning and d

  • In the Interest of S. D.

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carol Riley Office of Child Advocates, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Shalen Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Calandra Harps, Assistant Attorney General, Diana Johnson, Atlanta, and LaMia Saxby, Stone Mountain, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0245

    The juvenile court erred in finding that a newborn child was deprived based on the fact that his 16-year-old mother was in DFACS cu

  • Stubbs v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
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    Case Number: A12A0177; A12A0708; A12A0709

    Defense counsel's failure to object to a portion of the state's closing argument in which the prosecutor said that no one in the history of the circuit had ever been wrongly convicted and later rele

  • Klicka v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda M. Grantham, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0187; A12A0188

    No evidence supported the trial court's finding that the defendant committed an aggravated assault in viol of the terms of his prob

  • Huggins v. Powell

    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
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    Case Number: A11A2228; A11A2229

    Although the administratrix contended that the first alleged fraudulent transfer of property occurred in 2000, the post-2002 Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act's 4-year statute of limitation, and not t

  • In the Interest of A. R.

    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca B. Paris and Anthony B. Erwin, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Calandra A. Harps, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Holly A. Bradfield, Special Assistant Attorney General, Rome, and Elinor H. Portivent, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1556

    Clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's rights to her two chi