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  • EZ Green Assocs. LLC v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.

    Publication Date: 2015-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Stuart, Matthew Hood Stuart Johnston LLC, Atlanta, Thomas Dossett Todd Dossett PC, Kingsport, Tenn., and Thomas Jessee Jessee Jessee, Johnson City, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Merritt McAlister, Joseph Rockers, Elizabeth Tanis, and Xavier Carter King Spalding LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A14A1950

    The plaintiff's proposed methods for calculating damages in its breach of contract action were too speculative, unreliable and failed to account for market real

  • Mercure v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2014-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Huber, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amber Robinson and Christopher Walker City of Atlanta Department of Law, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0501

    The City of Atlanta Civil Service Board did not err in upholding a 20-day unpaid suspension against an APD officer for violating work rules prohibiting the use of unreasonable force and certain non-

  • Target Corp. v. Kennon Amerson

    Publication Date: 2014-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A13A1737; A13A1738

    The trial court erred in denying the defendants' motions for directed verdict on the plaintiff's fraudulent conveyance claim, as the plaintiff did not establish any "badges of fraud" pursuant to O.C

  • Cartledge v. Montano

    Publication Date: 2013-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Howard and Sharon Howard The Howard Law Firm, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Andrew Holliday and Susan Mulherin Fulcher, Hagler, Reed, Hanks & Harper, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A1580

    The trial court erred in granting the defendant doctor's motion in limine to exclude the plaintiff's expert witness's testimony on the ground that he was not qualified, since this finding was based

  • Bacchus v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anton Rowe Rowe & Rowe LLC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas Campbell, Rosemary Greene, District Attorneys, Jana Allen District Attorney's Office, Cartersville, and Stewart Bratcher, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0925

    The defendant waived his sole enumeration of error—that defense counsel rendered ineffective assistance—by choosing to pursue this appeal with the same attorney who defended him at

  • Sherman v. Dickey

    Publication Date: 2013-06-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy Citron, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan Adelman Harper Waldon & Craig, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0787

    The trial court lacked the authority to grant an award of attorneys' fees at the summary judgment stage of litigation pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 13

  • God's Hope Builders Inc. v. Mount Zion Baptist Church of Oxford, Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Stansfield, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael Waldrop Waldrop & Bootcheck LLC, Conyers, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A2202; A12A2251; A12A2252

    The record was insufficient to allow the trial court to determine the threshold issue of whether the plaintiffs represented a majority of the church membership and thus had standing to contest the d

  • Paulding County Ga., Bd. of Comm'rs v. Morrison

    Publication Date: 2012-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Wiener and Allen Hendrick Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Glen Stinson, Dallas, Thomas Hobgood Hobgood & Rutherford LLC and John Hennelly, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0035; A12A0036; A12A0372; A12A0373

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-11.1, the anti-SLAPP statute, allows a party defending a lawsuit to preserve its right to seek attorneys' fees and costs if the suit lacks substantial

  • Pinnacle Benning LLC v. Clark Realty Capital LLC

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus B. Calhoun Jr., William L. Tucker, Thomas F. Gristina, April H. Hocutt Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford PC, Columbus, Joe D. Whitley, Stephanie L. Oginsky and Michael J. King Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry A. Buchanan, Lori M. Leonardo Buchanan & Land, Columbus, Jeffrey L. William, Donna M. Welch and Daniel C. Moore Kirckland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellees.
    Case Number: A11A2408

    The trial court did not err in dismissing the plaintiff's derivative action for failure to make a formal demand upon the manager of the limited-liability corporation to bring the

  • State v. Mincher

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Brooks Jr., District Attorney, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1906

    The trial court properly granted the defendant's motion to suppress evidence garnered as a result of a traffic stop for making an illegal right turn, as the stop was unreasonable and not based on th