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  • Hoffman v. AC&S Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas P. McManamy, Leslie S. Pickett and Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis Admas & Tate, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ivan A. Gustafson, Christopher G. Conley Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Athens, Michael J. Crist Hawkins & Parnell, Jeffrey A. Burmeister and Stevan A. Miller Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2409

    Plaintiff failed to raise a jury issue in her asbestos-related injury suit because none of her witnesses could testify that she was exposed to defendants' pro

  • Gilbert v. Montlick & Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred A. Gilbert, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth L. Milwood Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough and Craig E. Bertschi Kilpatrick & Cody, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Michael J. Gorby and Martha D. Turner Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2284; A00A2286

    Assignment of an attorney's to a third party did not affect the validity of the

  • Bogle v. Bragg

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marvin P. Nodvin The Nodvin Firm LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert G. Tanner Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Robin N. Loeb and Ann H. Coolidge-Kaplan Garland, Samuel & Loeb, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2081

    Plaintiff could not show justifiable reliance on any material misrepresentations regarding liens on real property owned by a company that he invested in because the liens were a matter of public r

  • H & C Dev. Inc. v. Bershader

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tom Pye Chestnut, Livingston & Pye PC, Doraville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth I. Sokolov Fine and Block, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2104

    A jury issue remained as to whether the address appearing in the county's tax records was reasonably ascertainable under the redemption st

  • Beasley v. Beasley

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason A. Craig, Vidalia, for J. Beasley, D. Duston Tapley Jr. Tapley and Assocs., Vidalia, for C. Beasley.
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    Case Number: A01A0332; A01A0333

    Appellants could not complain that the trial court placed undue pressure on the jury to reach a unanimous verdict after their attorney affirmatively consented to the c

  • Heston v. Lilly

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Van C. Wilks, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Allen Allen & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0570

    The trial court properly charged on negligence and proximate cause, even though defendant admitted that his negligence cause the collision, because defendant contested the causation of the plaintiff

  • Steele v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Eleanor A. Kornahrens and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0738

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge under O.C.G.A. § 24-9-85 b because the victims did not wilfully and knowingly give false test

  • Kaiser v. Tara Ford Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian B. Pastor Pastor Law Group PC, Atlanta, John E. Spainhour and Elise G. Spainhour Givhan Spainhour PSC, Shepherdsville, Ky., for appellant.
    for defendant: A. L. Mullins Jr. Byrne, Eldridge, Moore & Davis PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: William H. Brandon, Avondale Estate.
    Case Number: A00A2350

    Plaintiff had no cause of action for malicious prosecution based on false information that defendant's employee provided to authorities during an ongoing criminal investigation because the employee

  • Driver v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony B. Williams, Assistant Solicitor General, Canton, and Valerie C. Thomason Thomason & Blackmon PC, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0532

    The trial court properly admitted defendant's pre-Miranda statement because a reasonable person in his shoes would not have believed he was in custody when the deputy ask him if he had been dr

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold B. Baker, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, James E. Hardy, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Robert R. Auman and Robert D. Jewell, Assistant District Attorneys, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0554

    De counsel was not deficient for pursuing an all-or-nothing de to a child molestation charge, rather than requesting a charge on sexual battery as the lesser included of