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  • Cox v. Mayan Lagoon Estates Ltd.; Cox v. Constantino

    Publication Date: 2012-12-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Tribble The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory Schultz, Deborah Livesay Taylor English Duma LLP, and Jonathan Crumly Maner Crumly Chambliss LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Frank Constantino, Rock Springs, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A12A1062; A12A1063

    A proposed settlement was admissible for the limited purpose of showing whether the individual defendant was the agent of two corporate defen

  • Sosniak v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles G. Haldi Jr. Ashway & Haldi LLP, and William A. Finch, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0799

    Callaway v. State, 275 Ga. 332 2002, and Boseman v. State, 263 Ga. 730 1994, were overruled to the extent that they held that the denial of a pre-trial constitutional speedy trial claim may be direc

  • McRae v. Arby's Restaurant Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence T. Clements and Bruce P. Johnson Clements & Sweet, Atlanta, for appellant. James H. Chandler, Andrew J. Hamilton Hamilton, Westby, Antonowich & Anderson, Atlanta, Thomas A. Eaton, Athens, for appellee. Other party representation: Delece Brooks State Bd. of Workers' Compensation and Todd K. Maziar, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1021

    Nothing in the Workers' Compensation Act requires an employee to authorize her treating physician to talk to her employer's lawyer ex parte in exchange for receiving benefits for a compensable i

  • Norfolk S. Ry. Co. v. Everett

    Publication Date: 2011-12-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Thompson Weissman Nowack Curry & Wilco, Atlanta, and Ralph G. Wellington Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant. Michael J. Warshauer, Douglas C. Dumont, and Lyle G. Warshauer Warshauer Law Group PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A0951

    The trial court plainly erred in granting the employee's pretrial motion in limine barring the railway company from presenting evidence on or making an argument concerning whether the employee was w

  • Keaton v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. McGee III McGee & McGee, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Michelle C. McIntire, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A0566

    Georgia's stalking laws were drafted to protect people, not places, and the interim order, upon which the state relied to convict the defendant, kept the defendant from the victim's home and only in