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  • In the Interest of A. D.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Suzanne Whitaker, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Michelle R. Clark, Stockbridge, for appellee. Other party representation: Jason T. Harper Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, and Ann K. Miller, Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A07A0150

    Deprivation order was vacated and the case remanded to the juvenile court for further proceedings in which the putative father may establish that he has legitimated the child and is entitled to part

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl J. Spence, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor, and Liza M. Moultrie Solicitor General's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1356

    Two breath tests taken 11 minutes apart were taken sequentially for the purposes of O.C.G.A. § 40-

  • The John Hardy Group Inc. v. Cayo Largo Hotel Assocs.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey T. Coleman, John L. Taylor Jr. Chorey, Taylor & Feil, Atlanta, and Jason L. Richey Kirkpatrick, Lockhart, Preston, Gates & Ellis, Pittsburgh, Penn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Constance E. Rodts Mayfield, Commander & Pound LLC, Dana M. Richens, Rachel K. Powell Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Bradley A. Slutsky, Melissa C. Howard King & Spalding, Kevin L. Ward Schulten, Ward & Turner, William S. Mayfield Duane Morris LLP, Nimesh B. Patel, Atlanta, and Paul J. Morochnik Thompson, O'Brien, Kemp & Nasuti, Norcross, for appellees.
    Case Number: A07A0475

    Puerto Rico would be more convenient forum for maintenance of the plaintiff's collection suit arising out of a dispute over the paying of invoices for the development and construction of a resort un

  • Hendry v. Wells

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent T. Gresham, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for Hendry and others. Thomas T. Tate Andersen, Tate, Mahaffey & McGarity PC, Lawrenceville, James K. Quillian, Merle R. Arnold III and William M. Droze Troutman Sanders for Wells and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0059; A07A0060

    A limited partner may bring a claim against a partne where the primary injury alleged is to the individual plaintiffs, rather than the partne

  • Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee v. Center for a Sustainable Coast

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, James D. Coots, John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee. Christopher K. DeScherer S. Envtl. Law Ctr., Stephen E. O'Day Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Mary M. Asbill Turner Envtl. Law Clinic, Atlanta, and Charles C. Smith Jr. Smith & Floyd, St. Mary's, for Center for a Sustainable Coast. Patricia T. Barmeyer King & Spalding, for Point Peter LLP. Other party representation: R. Todd Silliman King & Spalding, Julie V. Mayfield The Georgia Conservancy, Atlanta, Dana F. Braun Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Frank J. Perch III, Andrew H. Ernst Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0752; A07A0753; A07A0897; A07A0934

    The ALJ erred in requi he Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee Committee to consider or regulate any aspect of the developer's adjacent high land and upland residential development in consid

  • Wright v. K-Mart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Hugh Gordon, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Nichole W. Stout, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: John J. Makowski Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, Macon, and Robert B. Langstaff Jr., Albany.
    Case Number: A07A0229

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of the defendant's store's shelving unit on which he tripped and

  • Felder v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0750

    The defendant, a jail detention officer, accepted $100 from an inmate in exchange for a handcuf

  • Sunlink Health Sys. Inc. v. Pettigrew

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Burke Jr. Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglass K. Farrar Farrar & Hennesy, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0817

    The plaintiff had equal knowledge of the accumulation of rainwater on the hospital's flat concrete entrance wa

  • Cochran Mill Assocs. v. Stephens

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gus H. Small Jr., Kevin T. O'Sullivan Cohen, Pollock, Merlin, Axelrod & Small PC, and Kelly S. Scarbrough Lord, Bissell & Brook, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David W. Davenport and Keith A. Pittman Lamar, Archer & Cofrin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0061

    The plaintiff's partners were sophisticated business persons, who were clearly put on notice of their former managing partner's alleged mismanagement of a general real estate partnership formed to p

  • In the Interest of N. D.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel J. Gowin William W. Keith III PC, Chatsworth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason S. Naunas, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0026

    The juvenile court erred in sua sponte removing two boys from their mother's custody as part of its ruling on a deprivation petition filed on behalf of the mother's two daughters, since no petition