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  • LaSonde v. Chase Mortgage Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-02-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack LaSonde, Atlanta, proceeded pro se. John C. Porter Jr. Sites & Harbison PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A02A2135

    Plaintiff could not maintain a claim against defendants for tortiously interfering with his right to execute a purchase option on a residential lease-sale agreement since the defendants held the not

  • Stogisavlijevic v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank K. Martin and John T. Martin The Martin Firm, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2027

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after the victim alluded to the fact that defendant had previously sold drugs since the victim's testimony was not responsive to the state's question and

  • Benton v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John L. Land Newton County Public Defender's Office, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1883

    Since there was no evidence that the defendant and the victim struggled or that defendant shot the victim in self-defense, evidence of the victim's prior violent acts was inadmi

  • Worley v. Cowper Constr. Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence A. Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth B. Hodges and Gregory K. Morgan Phillips & Morgan LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0532

    A landlord was not responsible for paying a subcontractor who provided labor and materials in connection with improvements made by a commercial tenant for the tenant's own be

  • Gibbs v. Loomis, Fargo & Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert N. Katz Hewitt, Katz, Stepp & Wright, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lynn M. Roberson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1755

    Defendants had probable cause to believe that the plaintiff was guilty of

  • In the Interest of J.J.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mathias Skowranek, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Stephanie B. Hope, Special Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chaffin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other Party Representation: William D. Patten Jr., Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A03A0231

    Termination of the mother's parental rights was in the children's best interest where their mother had been incarcerated for 15 out of 24 months, was subject to extradition on out-of-state charges a

  • Vasquez v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2003-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline K. Taylor J. Taylor & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul B. Kemeness, Dunwoody, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1814

    Plaintiff did not have to prove that she suffered an actual injury to support her claim for battery, an intentional

  • Jenkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, Jason R. Troiano and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorneys, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0097

    Although the 9-year-old rape victim did not resist the defendant on the occasion in question, the jury was entitled to believe that the defendant induce the victim's lack of resistance by threatenin

  • In the Interest of T.H.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele W. Ogletree and Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan, Sturdivant & Ogletree PC, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Daniel A. Hiatt, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Robert H. English, Assistant District Attorney, Griffin and James E. Sherrill Griffin Judicial Circuit, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1603

    A juvenile who was going from his grandmother's home to his own home on a dirt bike was neither wandering nor loitering when the officers stopped him for a traffic viol

  • State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Goodman

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. Barrow, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John R. Dickey, Garden City, Edward M. Hughes Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Savannah, Timothy J. Haeussler and Ronald K. Thompson, Rincon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A2094

    A jury question remained as to whether an insurer was liable for the drowning of the insured's 7-year-old niece in a pond on the insured's property since there was conflicting evidence as to whether