• Hunt v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-06-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin Pearlman Public Defender's Office, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Smith, District Attorney, Jefferson, Samuel Skelton, Assistant District Attorney, Homer, and Patricia Brooks, Winder, for appellee.

    Case Number: A15A2064

    The evidence supported the defendant's convictions on 16 of criminal conduct he committed against his stepdaughter, but the trial court erred in sentencing him on each

  • The Best Jewelry Mfg. Co. Inc. v. Reed Elsevier Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Newton, Atlanta, Shuli Green, Decatur, James Hurt Hurt Stolz PC, and Irwin Stolz Hurt, Stolz Cromwell LLC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kaye Burwell, Kristen Williams, Lanna Hill Fulton County Attorney's Office, Cynthia Burnside, and Vernon Strickland Holland Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A15A0970

    The plaintiff failed to state a claim for any of its causes of action in its lawsuit challenging Fulton County State Court's adoption of an electronic filing s

  • Reed v. Carolina Cas. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas Cuffie, Harold Spence, Henrietta Brown The Cuffie Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Erica Holzman and Dennis Lovell Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A13A2270

    Issues of material fact remained as to the percentage of fault attributable to the defendant and to the decedent in the decedent's parents' wrongful death action arising from a traffic acc

  • Goodwin v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2014-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan Wade and Jordan Jewkes Webb, Wade & Taylor LLC, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas Brennan, James Taylor Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Atlanta, and Donald Foster Foster & Foster PC, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A2136

    The claims asserted against the insured in an underlying wrongful death suit arising from the fact that he shot and killed his estranged wife fell within his homeowners policy's exclusion for injuri