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  • Kmart Corp. v. Morris

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant Alston & Bird, and Nowell D. Berreth, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jonathan C. Peters, Michael T. Carithers and Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1166

    Evidence that the premises owner knew an automatic door would open towards incoming patrons under certain circumstances supported a finding that its knowledge of the danger was superior to plaint

  • First Bancorp Mortgage Corp. v. Giddens

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregg Loomis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Lowery Pursley, Howell, Lowery & Meeks, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0870

    The trial court properly excluded evidence of other lawsuits filed against defendants alleging flip sales since admitting such evidence would likely have resulted in undue prejudice or confusion wh

  • Bohannon v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: T. Joseph Campbell, District Attorney, and Donald S. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2079

    Defendant lacked standing to challenge the search of a friend's too

  • Epps v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard O. Allen, Atlanta, for Epps. Page A. Pate, Atlanta, for Angulo. Bernard S. Brody, Atlanta, for Brayboy. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Andrette Watson, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A01A2007; A01A2015; A01A2016

    Defendants convictions for cocaine trafficking could not stand because the police arrested defendants before they acquired possession of the

  • Finch v. Dasgupta

    Publication Date: 2001-10-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan B. Fecteau, Clarkesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, and Augustus T. Curtis, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1621

    Plaintiff's own testimony that she and defendant never agreed to live together as man and wife supported a finding that no common law marriage ex

  • Igidi v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephanie S. Benfield Stuckey & Manheimer LLC, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Donald P. Geary, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1145

    Evidence that defendant and his co-defendant robbed the victims of their cars to commit a subsequent armed robbery was admissible because it showed a continuous criminal enter

  • Edmondson v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2001-09-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Galen A. Mirate, Valdosta, and Melinda M. Katz, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George M. Saliba II, Gregory A. Voyles, Valdosta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0838

    The trial court properly dismissed a Georgia couple's adoption petition which would have required relitigation of an Alabama couple's right to adopt the child in que

  • Crafter v. State Farm Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-09-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Malone, S. Bradley Houck Thomas W. Malone PC, Atlanta, and Gerald S. Mullis Mullis, Marshall, Lindley & Powell, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert R. Gunn II and Thomas P. Allen III Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Alfred B. Adams III Holland & Knight, Scott D. Delius Magill & Atkinson LLP, Atlanta, and Melody P. F. Laine Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta.
    Case Number: A01A1549

    Plaintiff was not entitled to additional UM benefits under the negligent driver's policy because the driver's vehicle could not serve as the uninsured vehicle for the purpose of triggering an entitl

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Zoffmann, Smyrna, and Jay L. Palmer, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Irvan A. Pearlberg, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1878

    Defendant could not complain about the stipulated admission of unauthenticated crime lab reports in the absence of an allegation of fraud or mi

  • Hollifield v. Monte Vista Biblical Gardens Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Wayne Pierce Pierce & Young, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Carlton King Jr. King & Croft, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1329

    Defendant acted in bad faith by knowingly building structures that encroached on the plaintiffs' property and admittedly violating the county's building code by building the structures too close to