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  • Mitchell v. State

    Publication Date: 2016-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Amanda Speights Law Office of Gregory Hicks, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Shannon Wallace, District Attorney, Cliff Head, and Wallace Rogers, Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A0041

    Although the evidence supported the defendant's convictions after he broke into his ex-girlfriend's home, held her and her son captive and repeatedly raped and sodomized her at knife-point, the Cour

  • Coon v. The Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2016-01-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Houser Pugh, Columbus, and Archie Grubb Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis Miles PC, Montgomery, AL, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Hall, W. Scott Henwood, Hall, Booth, Smith Slover PC, Atlanta, Paul Ivey, Mark Wortham, and Lauren Dimitri Hall, Booth, Smith PC, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0884

    The plaintiff's emotional distress claims arising from the defendant hospital's mislabeling of her stillborn baby's remains, resulting in the funeral and burial of the wrong child, failed as a matte

  • Key Safety Sys. Inc. v. Bruner

    Publication Date: 2015-12-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashley Broach, Charles Marsh Swift, Currie, McGhee Hiers LLP, Frank Lowrey Bondurant, Mixson Elmore, Atlanta, Michael Cooney, and Brian Smith Dykema Gossett PLLC, Bloomfield Hills, MI, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robin Clark, Atlanta, Craig Avery Cowsert Avery, Athens, Melody Glouton, Anthony Powell Webb, Tanner Powell, Lawrenceville, and Christopher Glover Beasley Allen Crow Methvin Portis Miles, Montgomery, AL, for appellees.
    Case Number: A15A0960

    Use of a videotape by an expert to illustrate the expert's testimony is generally permis

  • Little-Thomas v. Select Specialty Hosp.-Augusta Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey Shiver, R. Scott Campbell, and Alan Hamilton Shiver Hamilton LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John Davison Fulcher Hagler LLP, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A15A0606

    Joyce Little-Thomas and Walter Thomas collectively the Plaintiffs appeal from the grant of summary judgment to Select Specialty Hospital-Augusta, In

  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0740

    A guaranty agreement executed as part of a credit application identified the principal debtor with sufficient specificity to satisfy the Statute of F

  • Bell v. Waffle House Inc.

    Publication Date: 2015-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Stevens and Ronald Stevens Stevens Stevens LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brandon Elleby and Robert Ingram Moore, Ingram, Johnson Steele LLP, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A2303

    Since the plaintiff did not dispute the reasonableness of the defendant's attorneys' fees and made only a procedural argument unrelated to the sufficiency of the evidence supporting the defendant's

  • Hill v. Kone Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert N. Katz and Briant G. Mildenhall Katz Stepp Wright & Fleming LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: John W. Campbell, Pamela N. Lee Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph D. Perrotta Dodson & Associates, Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1241

    The record contained factual issues as to whether the correct elevator was taken out of service and inspected, as required under O.C.G.A. § 8-2-106 c, after the plaintiff tripped and

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Harrison, Public Defender, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, John A. Fitzner III, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Mary K. McKinnon, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A1228

    Defense counsel was deficient in failing to object to the trial court's questioning of the defendant's alleged accomplice about his truthfulness, since the trial court's questions clearly intimated

  • Beamon v. Mahadevan

    Publication Date: 2014-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alexander Simanovsky and Zachary C. Meeks Alex Simanovsky & Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gary R. McCain and Joscelyn M. Hughes Allen McCain & O'Mahony PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A14A0947

    Plaintiffs' suit for medical malpractice and loss of consortium was barred by O.C.G.A. § 9-3-71 subsection a's 2-year statute of limit

  • MCG Health Inc. v. Perry

    Publication Date: 2014-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher Cosper, David Hudson Hull Towill Norman Barrett & Salley PC, and Robert Allgood, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Bell Bell & Brigham, Sam Nicholson, Harry Revell Nicholson Revell LLP, David Bell, and Pamela James, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A1996

    The Court reversed the plaintiffs' class action certification in their suit challenging a hospital's practice of filing hospital liens upon injured patients' causes of action against the tortfeasors