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  • George v. Hercules Real Estate Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2017-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Rogers, William D'Antignac, Gilbert Deitch Deitch Rogers LLC, Kara Phillips Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard Smith LLP, Atlanta, and David Glass, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James Myers, Brynda Insley Insley Race LLC, and Gregory Shin Nowell Sparks LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A1090

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to apartment management company in plaintiff's premises liability suit arising after unknown assailants shot him during a home invasion, as there wa

  • O'Neal v. Crawford Cnty., GA

    Publication Date: 2016-12-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bonnie Smith, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Duke Groover and Natalie Stroud James Bates Brannan Groover, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A16A0912

    The trial court erred in awarding county attorney fees it had paid directly to county coroner's attorney in connection with his declaratory judgment/mandamus action against county, because those pay

  • Ruemker v. Ruemker

    Publication Date: 2016-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry Landers, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: in Case Nos. A16A1200 and A16A1201. Dawn Levine and Alan Levine Lyle Levine LLC, Marietta, for appellant in Case Nos. A16A1202 and A16A1203. Edwin Varner, Warner Robins, for appellee. Other party representation: Jocelyn Daniell Daniell Law Firm LLC, Claire Chapman, Lena Ruemker, Warner Robins, and Rebecca Moody, Perry.
    Case Number: A16A1200; A16A1201; A16A1202; A16A1203

    The Court did not have jurisdiction over appellants' appeals, because the orders appellants appealed were interlocutory rulings and not directly appealable, as they did not include any decision as t

  • Hospital Specialists of GA PC v. Gray

    Publication Date: 2016-11-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer Smith and Vincent Toreno Ken David Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark Stuckey Kaufman Law PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A16A1121

    The trial court correctly allowed medical malpractice plaintiff to substitute the name of one doctor for that of another doctor after the expir of the statute of limit

  • 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