• Ousley v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie L. Horne Public Defender's Office, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Charles M. Stines, Assistant District Attorney, and William J. Hunter District Attorney's Office, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0186

    The evidence did not support the defendant's conviction for felony fraud, because no evidence showed that she received at least $500 more than the amount to which she was legally ent

  • Savannah Yacht Corp. f/k/a Palmer Johnson Savannah Inc. v. Thunderbolt Marine Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Owen C. Murphy, Carrie H. Bacon, Sam P. Inglesby Jr. Inglesby, Falligant, Horne, Courington & Chisholm PC, and Paul W. Painter Jr. Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Christopher L. Ray and James L. Pannell Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A08A1621

    The appellants did not waive their defenses concerning the appellee's claims for maintenance and repair arising out of the collapse of a marina rental property's south bulkhead, which was at issue h

  • In the Interest of Z. D.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer O. Watts, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Kathryn A. Fox, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Miessha Thomas Federation of S. Cooperatives, East Point, Karimah Boston, Decatur, and Jerry W. Thacker, Conyers, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0487

    The father thwarted a case worker's efforts to investigate the younger child's black eye, failed to seek medication attention for the older child's history of excessive hunger and punished her for t

  • Mote v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald G. Shedd Public Defender's Office, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Natalee L. Staats, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0714

    The state failed to show that the defendant participated in the alleged act of aggravated sodomy as alleged in her indic

  • In the Interest of J. W. B.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Talethia R. Weekley, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, and Alexander J. Markowich, Assistant District Attorney, Waycross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0618

    After the v walked away from a round of punches, the juvenile grabbed a metal rod and swung it at the v

  • Brewer v. Paulk

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roy E. Barnes, John F. Salter Jr. The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, and Marion T. Pope Jr. Hasty, Pope & Ball, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen A. Yaklin, Matthew M. Wilkins King & Yaklin LLP, Marietta, Lloyd B. Hedrick Jr. Hedrick Law LLP, Atlanta, and Dennis G. Brewer Sr. Irving, Texas, for appellees.

    Case Number: A08A2392

    The trial court erred in awarding attorneys' fees under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 a, because the plaintiffs' suit raised justiciable claims for breach of fiduciary duty and loss of conso

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and David J. Getachew-Smith District Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0541

    Evidence of a prior similar burglary involving the theft of copper tubing or pipe was admissible as a similar transa

  • Williamson v. Strickland & Smith Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malcolm F. Bryant Jr. Bryant & Cook PC, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Glen A. Cheney, Reidsville, and Wilson R. Smith Smith & Jenkins, Vidalia, for appellee.

    Case Number: A08A1758

    The defendant could not complain that the erred in considering a letter he introduced at

  • Harris v. Peach County Bd. of Comm'rs

    Publication Date: 2009-02-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael E. Lemon Knott & Lemon PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Phillip A. Sibley Murphy & Sibley PC, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Robert D. Ingram, Rodney R. McColloch and Ryan G. Prescott Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta.

    Case Number: A08A1846

    The claimant's injury-she dislocated her knee bending down to pick up a diuretic pill she had dropped on the floor-arose as part of her duties as a county courthouse cust

  • Board of Regents v. Canas

    Publication Date: 2009-01-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorney General, placeCityAtlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William L. Ballard Ballard, Still & Ayres, J. Robert Persons Smith, Moore & Leatherwood LLP, Atlanta, and James S. V. Weston Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley PC, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A09A0411

    The plaintiff had to show that the appellant waived its sovereign immunity under the Georgia Torts Claims Act, rather than preexisting law, since the undisputed evidence showed that the plaintiff di