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  • Hunter v. Emory-Adventist Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph King, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Natalie Beasman and James Meadows Balch & Bingham, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0189

    The defendant hospital was protected from vicarious liability in the medical malpractice lawsuit because it fully complied with Georgia law in posting notice in a public area of the hospital regard

  • Scarborough v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2013-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian C. Ranck Sanders & Ranck PC, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Cornwell Jr. Cornwell Law Offices, Toccoa, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13A0060

    The trial court erred in setting aside the county Board of Commissioners' dec to abandon a county road, as it failed to accord proper deference to the Board's dec

  • May 21, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    South Carolina Bound: Adams and Reese Opens in Columbia

    CORRECTION: 5/22/2013, 11:00 a.m. EDT. The sixth paragraph of this story misstated the date of Moore & Van Allen's opening in Charleston. We regret the er

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  • Hines v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cinque Axam Axam-Roberts Legal Group, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Billy Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A2455

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to strike a prospective juror who was a former corrections officer and worked in private security, since a member of th

  • Richards v. Horton Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark Richards, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Trevor Hiestand, Ashley Rice Waldon Adelman Castilla Hiestand & Prout, Jerald Hanks Hanks Brookes LLC, Jason Darneille Crim & Bassler LLP, Thomas Sippel, Jatrean Sanders Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan PLLC, Philip Savrin Freeman Mathis & Gary, William Harrison, Barry Noeltner, Atlanta, Charles Willcox Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers, Albany, and Craig Allen, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A1814

    The plaintiff had standing to pursue his claims against a homebuilder for alleged defective construction of his home under 11 U.S.C. § 554 c, since those claims were abandoned back to him when his b

  • 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

  • Blake v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Robinson III Robinson & Assocs., Snellville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Luana P. Nolin, Sheryl D. Freeman, Assistant District Attorneys, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1852

    The defendant was not eligible for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, since he committed his crimes in December 2008, prior to the effective date of the amendment to the murder sen

  • February 28, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: February 28, 2013

    Japan Linklaters is advising Japanese financial services company Orix Corp. on its $2.16 billion acquisition of a majority stake in the asset manag

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  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-02-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer A. Trieshmann Public Defender's Office, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1548

    The Court noted that the cases in which the Court of Appeals relied on the "actual evidence" test to merge aggravated assault crimes before the "required evidence" test in Drinkard v. Walker, 281 Ga

  • February 21, 2013 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: February 21, 2013

    India  Herbert Smith Freehills, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Khaitan & Co., and Amarchand &a

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