• Alston Bird LLP v. Hatcher Management Holdings LLC

    Publication Date: 2016-04-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason Alloy, Joshua Belinfante, Rachel Gage, and Richard Robbins Robbins Ross Alloy Belinfante Littlefield LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harmon Caldwell, Harry MacDougald, and Jeremy Moeser Caldwell Watson LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A15A1677

    The trial court erred in striking the defendant law firm's apportionment notice in a suit for legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary

  • Floyd v. Gibson

    Publication Date: 2015-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Howell Alston Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Judy Jarecki-Black, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret Dyal, Lavonia, for appellee.

    Case Number: A14A1655

    It was not apparent from the trial court's order whether it made the requisite findings in awarding custody of three minor children to their grandm

  • Standard Bldg. Co. Inc. v. Schofield Interior Contractors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary K. Durant, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ron L. Quigley, Vincent J. Arpey, Matthew R. Thiry and Mina A. Elmankabady Davis Matthews & Quigley PC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A11A1869

    The Court of Appeals could not consider the defendants' challenge to the special master's appointment to consider their post-trial motions, even though the trial court's failure to provide notice to

  • Johnson v. Leibel

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, Jenny E. Jensen and Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, Norcross, for Johnson. Michael J. Goldman, Christine L. Mast, Joseph H. Wieseman Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Michael J. Bowers and David J. Marmins Balch & Bingham, Atlanta, for Liebel. Other party representation: Peter H. Schmidt II Taylor, Odachowski, Sperry & Crossland LLC, St. Simons Island.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A10A1047; A10A1048

    The trial court erred in granting a new trial in a legal malpractice case, because a juror's failure to disclose during voir dire that appellant attorney represented the plaintiff in a 1992 case aga

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew A. Tucker Tucker & Assocs. Law Firm LLC and James W. Bradley, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Luana Popescu, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A10A0064

    The trial court did not err in excluding evidence of the victim's violent threats to the def 's family, because no evidence showed that the def 's family communicated the threats to the de

  • Bailey v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2009-04-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell R. Bird Bird & Assocs. and Robert D. Feagin Decker & Hallman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lemuel H. Ward City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A08A2173

    The plaintiffs' inverse condemnation claim failed as a matter of law, because the city never began construction of certain proposed side