• Sevilla-Carcamo v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chirag Patel and Norman Cuadra Cuadra Patel LLC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Drew Unger District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A15A2351

    After the defendant was arrested for driving without a license and agreed to allow her pastor to take her vehicle, the pastor possessed authority to consent to a search of the vehicle because there

  • Butler v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2014-08-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Hartley and Hieu Nguyen Harben & Hartley LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marc Lubatkin, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A14A0448

    Monitoring, supervising and controlling the activities of students is a discretionary action protected by the doctrine of official immunity, even if the allegations involve a teacher's total failure

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen Scarborough, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy Vaughn, District Attorney, Eastman, for appellee.

    Case Number: A13A1660

    The defendant's conviction for theft by taking was reversed, as the State failed to establish venue, since there was no evidence presented that the defendant exercised control over, spent or disburs

  • Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc. v. Forsyth Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Thompson Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Barmeyer, Lewis Jones King & Spalding, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, and John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A12A0979

    The superior court erred in elevating the status of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division's implementation procedures to that of a formal rule when it directed the ALJ, on remand, to apply t