Koules v. Sp5 Atlantic Retail Ventures, LLC.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a proper application of the abuse-of-discretion review “recognizes the range of possible conclusions the trial judge may reach”
• finding that printout of email may be authenticated by different means, including circumstantial evidence; “the question of whether [the printout] is ‘authentic’ is simply whether it is what it purports to be”
• vacating and remanding when the trial court had failed to consider the documents at issue, which amounted to a failure to exercise its discretion properly
• “The Evidence Code recognizes a wide variety of means by which a party may authenticate a writing; the use of circumstantial evidence is one of these methods.”
• “The appearance and content of a document may also be circumstantial evidence of authenticity.”
• “Under long-standing Georgia law, the process known as authentication of writings is the means by which a writing is shown to be in fact what it purports to be in order to introduce it in evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).