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  • Patterson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0490

    The state gave a race-neutral explanation for using a peremptory strike to remove the sole African-American male prospective

  • Chamblin v. K-Mart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen L. Ivie, Ashburn, and John M. Brown, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Nicole W. Stout and James S. Strawinski Strawinski & Goldberg LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2203

    Under the learned intermediary rule, the prescribing physician, not the pharmacist, has the duty to counsel or warn his/her patients about the possible adverse effects of prescribed medica

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alex L. Zipperer and Eric R. Gotwalt Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1970

    The trial court's error in charging that the jury could infer intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon was harmless, given the overwhelming evidence of defendant's m

  • Harris v. SAL Fin. Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fredric Chaiken, Charlotte K. Perrell and Robert J. Kaufman Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . G. Wayne Hillis Jr. and Aaron W. Lipson Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General, and Edward H. Lindsey Jr. Goodman, McGuffey, Aust & Lindsey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A04A0926

    The arbitration clause in an agreement, which allowed an attorney who established a charitable trust for his client to buy and sell securities on behalf of the trust, was severable because the contr

  • Vito v. Dhillon

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Looper Jr. Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, Atlanta, and R. Lars Anderson, Macon, for Vito and others. Mark A. Inman and Prescott L. Nottingham, Atlanta, for Dhillon. Other party representation: John K. Train IV and Chloe E. Dallaire Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: A04A2170; A04A2171

    The first defendant committed an unauthorized practice of podiatry under the Georgia Podiatry Act by performing an elective cosmetic limb-lengthening procedure on the plaintiff's

  • Atlanta Humane Society v. Harkins

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward L. Greenblatt, James V. Zito and Janet L. Bozeman Lipshutz, Greenblatt & King, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hollie G. Manheimer Stuckey & Manheimer, Decatur, Alan I Begner, Katie K. Wood Begner & Begner PC and Gerald R. Weber, Atlanta, for Harkins & Mills. Amicus Appellant: George L. Howell Howell & Assocs. LLC, Atlanta, Gary M. Newberry, Savannah, William A. Mudd Saddler Sullivan PC, Birmingham, Ala., and James Stark, Englewood, Colo. Amicus Appellee: Douglas P. Haines, Athens, Justine I. Thompson, Craig L. Goodmark, Atlanta, Mary M. Oliver Joyner & Burnette PC, Decatur, and Dion A. Sullivan, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S04G0613; S04G0684, S04G0685

    The fourth sentence of the anti-SLAPP statute, O.C.G.A. § 9-11-11.1 b, allows a trial court to dismiss the claim if the trial court makes a substantive, evidentiary determination that the claim is

  • Cistola v. Daniel

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Grimes Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes & Miller, Atlanta, for Cistola. Robert K. Woo Jr. King & Spalding, Atlanta, and Frederick E. Link Hartness & Link, Gainesville, for Daniel and others. Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for Odegaard and others.
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    Case Number: A03A2482; A03A2483

    The defendants were not entitled to a directed verdict on the plaintiff's fraud claim arising from his execution of a "corrective" quitclaim deed at the request of the defendants' real estate agent

  • Stewart v. Milliken

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas M. West, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0083

    The state did not challenge the merits of defendant's ineffectiveness of appellate counsel claims after the habeas court resolved them in defendant's

  • Walker v. Houston

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Madonna M. Heinemeyer and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Freddie Houston, Oglethorpe, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S03A1392

    The defendant did not show that he was prejudiced by his counsel's failure to make a meritless objection object to the introduction of evidence that defendant committed a similar robbery in Fl

  • International Biochemical Indus. Inc. v. Jamestown Management Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn C. Stewart and Scott D. McAlpine Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan E. Edlein Holland & Knight, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1275

    Res judicata did not bar the lessor from bringing claims for future or accelerated rent after successfully pursuing claims for past due rent in a dispossessory proceeding since the parties' lease ex