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  • Georgia Dep't of Human Resources v. Odom

    Publication Date: 2004-04-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Kendal L. Kerew, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry W. Brimberry Brimberry, Kaplan & Brimberry PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2164

    Some evidence supported the state personnel board's termination of the plaintiff's employment as a health service technician for a psychiatric fac

  • Hammond v. Carnett's Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Marc B. Hershovitz, Michael K. Jablonski, Atlanta, Roy E. Barnes and John F. Salter Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard C. Foster Hicks, Casey & Barber PC, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Robert B. Hocutt, Mark D. Lefkow Nall & Miller LLP, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Daniel S. Walsh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A2487

    The trial court abused its discretion in finding that the plaintiff failed to satisfy the numerosity, commonality, typicality and superiority requirements for class certification in her action broug

  • Cochran v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Hinds, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Charles P. Boring, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0667

    The victims' in-court identifications of defendant as one of the perpetrators corroborated his 17-year-old accomplice's test

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Thomaston, Tommy J. Ison and Jamie K. Inagawa, Assistant District Attorneys, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2206

    The court erred in admitting evidence of defendant's three prior shoplifting convictions during the guilt/innocence stage of

  • Cox v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel and Michael T. McCulley Casey, Gilson & Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry L. DeLoach, Deputy City Attorney, and Serena L. Sparks, Assistant City Attorney, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2387

    The plaintiffs failed to show that the defendants were strangers to the plaintiffs' contract to provide security for a baseball st

  • Dudley v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Gustinella, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Michael K. Dennard, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0752

    Contrary to the defendant's contention, the record clearly showed that he knew his plea was non-negotiated and open-

  • Griner v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas L. Mutert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward F. Preston Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland LLP, John H. Smith Jr. Young, Thagard, Hoffman & Smith, Valdosta, and John T. Croley Jr., Fitzgerald, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1673

    The defendants could not foresee that a trained firefighter would hand an unlicensed rescue worker a knife and tell him to "blow" the front tires of a truck that was wedged under another truck foll

  • Gerber & Gerber PC v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2004-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry L. Strawser Shivers & Assocs., Alpharetta, for Gerber & Gerber PC, William J. Holley II, James S. Rankin Jr. and Ryan K. McLemore Parker, Hudson, Raines & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, for Regions Bank.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1952; A03A1953

    Questions of fact remained as to whether the defendant bank violated reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing by accepting blank-endorsed forged checks made payable to a law firm for deposit

  • Rios v. Norsworthy

    Publication Date: 2004-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James S. Strawinski and Nicole W. Stout, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Gray II, Stacey K. Hydrick Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield, Michael J. Warshauer and Bradford W. Thomas Warshauer, Woodruff & Thomas PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Robert A. Freyre, Cumming.
    Case Number: A03A2411

    The third-party defendant was exercising ordinary care when he checked his rearview mirror to confirm that the defendant's vehicle was behind him before focusing his attention on an uphill curve in

  • In the Interest of D. W.

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David T. Wooten, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Kathryn A. Pope DFACS and Vicki E. Carter, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2435

    Aggravating circumstances, in addition to the putative father's incarceration, supported the termination of his parental r