• Nix v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-10-28
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Richard Stepp, Lawrenceville, for appellant. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Robby A. King District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1577

    The defendant was legally detained when the officer requested consent to search the car immediately after giving the defendant a verbal warning and instructing him to repair an inoperative head

  • Williams v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2011-10-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: A. James Rockefeller The Rockefeller Law Center, Warner Robins, for appellant. Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Carmel W. Sanders, Macon, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A2184

    OCGA § 19-8-18 e provides that adoption decrees are not subject to any judicial challenge filed more than six months after entry of the decree and the biological mother, who was incarcerated at the

  • Butler v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lyle K. Porter, Lawrenceville, for appellant. Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and William C. Akins, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1301

    Evidence that the defendant previously pled guilty to offenses arising from his contact with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl in an internet chat room was admissible and relevant t

  • Blackmore v. Blackmore

    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy I. Jordan Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC and Debbie C. Pelerose, Marietta, for appellant. Stephen C. Steele Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLC, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1277; A11A1526

    Because the mother's increased visitation did not exceed the time of cu allowed to the father, it did not amount to a de facto change of cu

  • October 20, 2011 |

    Successor Liability

    Chart presents state-by-state policy on successor liability with case law citations. Most jurisdictions acknowledge the general rule of successor liability, but there are exceptions that are illustrated here on a jurisdictional basis.

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  • State v. Woods

    Publication Date: 2011-09-16
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Kenya K. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry D. Wolfe and Dennis C. Francis Jr., Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A11A1199

    Both defendants had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the motel room in question and the safe where police found crack co

  • Nunnally v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-09-16
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jon C. Rhoades, LaGrange, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, and Lynda S. Caldwell, Assistant District Attorney, LaGrange, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A1159

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to quash his indictment, as the plain language of O.C.G.A. § 17-7-50.1 mandated the transfer of his case to the juvenile court because he was

  • Gillespie v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-09-02
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David Gillespie, Buford, proceeded pro se. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, and John R. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A11A1040

    The defendant's life sentence for armed robbery did not conflict with former versions of the state's general sentencing statute and was within the statutory l

  • Azordegan v. Ebrahimi

    Publication Date: 2011-08-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Storrs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lee S. Goldstein Cohen, Goldstein, Port and Gottlieb LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A1402

    The applicant failed to show that the arbitrator imperfectly executed his authority on the basis that the award failed to set forth certain explicit findings, as the Georgia Arbitration Code does no

  • WMW Inc. d/b/a Honda Carland v. American Honda Motor Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-08-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Lamar Mixon and Lisa R. Strauss Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard K. Hines V Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, William V. Hearnburg JR. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, Dean Bunch Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Tallahassee, Fla., and Steven A. McKelvey Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Columbia, S.C., for appellee.

    Case Number: A11A0251

    Existing Roswell car dealership lacked standing to petition to enjoin its parent motor company's authorization of a proposed new franchisee's establishment of a new sales and service dealership in C