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  • 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

  • Harper v. Ameris Bank

    Publication Date: 2014-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Simon Bloom, Ariel Zion, and Stephanie Everett The Bloom Sugarman Everett LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kimberly Harris and Quentin Marlin Ellis Painter Ratteree & Adams, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A1694

    A party seeking to confirm a nonjudicial foreclosure sale is under no obligation to present an expert appraisal of the pro

  • WellStar Health Sys. Inc. v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2013-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
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    Case Number: A13A1417; A13A1418

    The Court of Appeals affirmed the grant of the medical malpractice plaintiff's motion to disqualify the defendant's counsel for tampering with her expert wi

  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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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

    LaFarge Bldg. Materials v. Pratt, 307 Ga. App. 767 2011, adversely decided the issue of whether the individual defendant's personal guaranty satisfied the Statute of Frauds in this suit on an accoun

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alixe Steinmetz Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert James, District Attorney, Decatur, and Daniel Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2308

    The defendant conspired with other employees at his place of employment to falsify their overtime records in exchange for a portion of their unearned pay and non-accomplice witnesses corroborated th

  • Henderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert Palmour and Steven Miller, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh Patterson, District Attorney, and Harold Goldin, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2240

    The State proved the defendant's knowledge e ages e children depicted performing sexual acts on DVDs and computer movie files that the defendant possessed, through the admission of portion

  • Edgecomb v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Michael Treadaway, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick Head, D. Victor Reynolds, District Attorneys, Allen Knox, Assistant District Attorney, and John Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A1823

    The trial court improperly instructed the jury on the unindicted offense of violating a family violence order as a lesser included offense of the charged crime of aggravated sta