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  • Williams v. Chick-fil-A Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Thompson and Larry I. Smith Thompson & Smith PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ashley F. Cummings, Matthew J. Calvert Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, and William T. Casey Jr. Hicks, Casey & Barber PC, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A0105

    There was no evidence showing that the corporate defendant and the operator of one of its restaurants were in a joint venture or other agency relationship at the time the operator ran a stop sign in

  • Atlanta Humane Soc'y v. Mills

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward L. Greenblatt, Janet L. Bozeman and James V. Zito Lipshutz, Greenblatt & King, Atlanta, for Atlanta Humane Soc'y and others. Alan I. Begner, Robert M. Adelson and Katherine K. Wood Begner & Begner PC, for Mills. Other party representation: Stacy S. Levy, Decatur, and James Stark, Englewood, Colo.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2480; A03A2481

    As a quasi-governmental entity, the county humane society was barred from bringing a defamation a

  • Colonial Life & Accident. Ins. Co. v. Heveder

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Hannan III Thompson & Slagle PC, Duluth, and Fakiha Kahn Love, Willingham, Peters, Gilleland & Monyak, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John M. Brown, Augusta, and James E. Staples Jr., Cornelia, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph J. Hennesy Jr., Douglass K. Farrar Farrar & Hennesy, Douglas, Robert B. Summer, Pearson, and Robert R. Gunn II Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon.
    Case Number: A05A0428

    The plaintiff's action against the insurance company for the proceeds of his father's death benefit was precluded by O.C.G.A. § 33-24-1, since the plaintiff did not notify the insurer of his claim p

  • In the Interest of J. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua J. Smith, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0250

    Evidence that the grandmother was found drunk, unresponsive and unable to care for her grandchild supported the juvenile court's order approving a nonreunification

  • City of Atlanta v. Paulk

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, and Kendric E. Smith City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael J. Kramer, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0715

    Absent a transcript, the presumably supported the trial court's finding that the city wilfully refused to comply with the plaintiff's discovery requests after the trial court granted his motion to c

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey H. Brickman, Acting District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0469

    The evidence, including the defendant's confession that he broke into a warehouse and stole computers out of a car, supported his convictions for burglary and entering an automobile with intent to c

  • Buckner v. Douglas County

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Kevin Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul B. Frickey and Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A0881

    The Board of Commissioner's letter to the plaintiff agreeing to allow him to develop property in accordance with prior zoning amounted to an agreement to amend the county's zoning ordinance in viola

  • Cornelius v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, and Sandra G. Matson, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0468

    The defendant fired a handgun four or five times into the cab of a pickup truck were three people were si

  • In the Interest of H. D. T.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry M. Daniel, Waynesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, William F. Collins, Atlanta, and Anne R. Moore, Statesboro, for appellee. Other party representation: Stuart H. Patray Hal Roach Jr. PC, Statesboro, and Earle J. Duncan III, Darien.
    Case Number: A05A0654

    The mother's unrehabilitated drug abuse rendered her incapable of adequately providing for her children and she unjustifiably failed to comply with her reunification

  • Gray v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Public Defender, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Kelly D. Kautz, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1415

    The record did not show that the trial court considered the seven factors set forth in O.C.G.A. § 17-14-10 in determining the nature and amount of restit