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  • Burroughs v. Mitchell County

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter A. Law, Ernest M. Moran Law & Moran, Atlanta, and Benjamin L. Lindquist Silvis & Ambrose PC, Thomasville, for appellants. Richard K. Strickland Brown Readdick Bumgartner, Brunswick, Grant B. Smith, George H. Connell Jr. Dennis Corry Porter & Smith LLP, Sun S. Choy, and Jacob E. Daly Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1001

    The trial court must consider and rule on the admissibility of an expert's opinion that the defendant probably caused damage to a platform at a county sanitation facility where the plaintiff slipped

  • Omni Builders Risk Inc. v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Gerrard, Lexington, and Mary K. Durant, Tucker, for appellant. Amanda A. Farahany and Eleanor M. Attwood Barrett & Farahany, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1025

    The defendant's attorney had no apparent authority to sign a binding set t agreement, since the company's president and majority shareholder was present during the relevant mediation and the se

  • First Media Group Inc. v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2011-10-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder Wheeler & Flint LLP, and Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant. Lance A. Cooper, Marietta, and Robert K. Finnell, Rome, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1248

    Because the p ff did not have actual notice of the trial court's intended disposition of the defendant's summary judgment motion, she was entitled to voluntarily dismiss her comp

  • Glass v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-07-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica E. Brinson, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Kevin T. McMurry, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A0611

    The defendant's aggravated assault charge merged with his felony murder convi

  • Bishop v. Patton

    Publication Date: 2011-03-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan E. Busch and Jason B. Godwin Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kristine E. Brown, Acworth, and L. David Wolfe, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S10A1601

    No evidence showed that the defendant had plans to kill his former caretaker-turned-lover when he executed a gift deed to his approximate $125K home to his three minor grandchildren three months pri

  • McGarity v. Hart Electric Membership Co.

    Publication Date: 2011-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter A. Law and Jeffrey P. Shiver Law & Moran, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Troy L. Greene, Hugh B. McNatt McNatt, Green & Peterson, Vidalia, Walter J. Gordon Sr., Hartwell, and Timothy K. Hall, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A2069

    Evidence showed the requisite mutuality of interest, advantage, or potential benefit, namely that the plaintiff visited the property in question to assess whether he wanted to purchase it, to suppor

  • Fair v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC and Elizabeth V. Rogan, Atlanta, for Fair. Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, and James S. Stokes, Atlanta, for Jolly. Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Kimberly S. Schwartz, Assistant District Attorney, Garrison A. Wood District Attorney's Office, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Laura J. Murphree Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A1034; S10A1035

    O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 8 does not require the defendant's knowledge that the victim was a peace officer to impose a death penalty on a defendant, who killed a peace officer conducting a no-knock wa

  • September 30, 2010 |

    Canada's Federal Court of Appeal Offers Some Guidance on Transfer Pricing Issues

    GlaxoSmithKline decision establishes that courts determining appropriate transfer prices must consider business realities.

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  • Cook v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-08-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus Cook, Grovetown, proceeded pro se. Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Atha H. Pryor, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A1550

    Nothing in the burglary statute limits the dual use of prior convictions in both the guilt-innocence phase and at sente

  • In the Interest of R.M., A Child

    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and John M. Chenhall, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffery A. Rothman Daniels & Rothman PC, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1288, A10A1353

    The trial court erred in granting uvenile's motion to suppress his breath tests results, since the statutory implied consent notice for suspects under 21, which the investigative officer read t