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  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul K. Cook, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, District Attorney, Mary K. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, and David C. Walker, Assistant District Attorney, Carnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0741

    The trial court's error in admitting an unauthenticated audiotape of the second of two controlled buys between defendant and a confidential informant was harmless, in light of other direct and circu

  • In the Interest of K. B. F.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald B. Lowe III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Kimberly Rowden, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1423

    The juvenile drove the other assailant to the victim's residence, spoke with the victim before the other assailant held a gun to the victim's head and led police on a high-speed chase away from the

  • Henry v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Edwards, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, and Brian A. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0441

    The indictment's six-year time frame did not render it insuffi

  • Ponder v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew K. Hube Hube & Tucker PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, and Michael T. Muldrew, Assistant District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0377

    The defendant's conviction for first degree vehicular homicide was affirmed be the evidence was sufficient to establish proximate

  • Brown v. Morton

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Smith, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Derek M. Wright and Alan M. Shenberg The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0558

    Defe did not violate the Fair Business Practice Act when they accepted payment for the installation of a pool they had no intention of completing, since there was no evidence showing that def

  • Broadcast Concepts Inc. v. Optimus Fin. Servs. LLC

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Welsh Welsh Law LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard L. Robbins and Julianne N. Belaga Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0602

    Evidence presumably supported trial court's f that the defendants' failure to file a responsive pleading was not due to excusable neglect and the facts of the case did not demand a contrary f

  • In the Interest of A. B.

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Holly A. Bradfield, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1076

    The mother had a 20-year history of cocaine abuse, she tested positive for cocaine at the younger child's birth, she refused treatment and drug screens and she failed to provide a home for the chi

  • 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