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  • Bass Custom Landscapes Inc. v. Cunard

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Howell Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John D. Carey McKenney, Jordan & Carey, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Betty D. Wheeler Alan W. Connell, and Catherine B. Evans Adams, Barfield, Dunaway & Hankinson, Thomaston.
    Case Number: A02A0909

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of falling on the icy steps outside her place of employment, since she testified that refusing her branch manager's request to t

  • Whitehead v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker L. Chandler, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Charles E. Rooks, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1576

    The officers' corroboration of the informant's tip through surveillance gave them reasonable suspicion to believe that defendant was engaged in criminal activity before they stopped his ve

  • Bickford v. Yancey Dev. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Calhoun and Shilpa S. Masih Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Fr., Coleen D. Hosack Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, John K. Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Sam P. Hensley Jr., Marietta, and Jeffrey H. Schneider Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Zaleon PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2208

    A covenant requiring 2-acre lots expired by law 20 years after it was ad

  • In the Interest of T. J. J.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Chandler R. Bridges, Roswell, and Saunders P. Jones IV, Dunwoody, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Robert G. Nardone, Avondale Estate, for appellee. Other party representation: Dorothy V. Murphy, Child Advocate Attorney, Decatur.
    Case Number: A02A1400; A02A1401

    No clear and convincing evidence of present parental inability or misconduct supported the termination of the mother's parental rights to her two children where the deprivation determination was bas

  • Lyons v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clark C. Adams Jr., Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and Melvin E. Hyde Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1743

    The trial court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress evidence seized under warrant where the warrant did not provide details establishing probable cause to s

  • Communications Network Servs. Inc. v. MCI Worldcom Communications Inc. f/k/a Worldcom Techs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott A. Schweber Schweber, Izenson & Anderson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan L. Howick Macey, Wilensky, Cohen, Wittner & Kessler, and Robert Griffiths Klett, Rooney, Lieber & Schorling PC, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1124

    Applicable federal tariffs authorized a telecommunication carrier to terminate service to the defendant when the defendant failed to make an advance payment on a $1.8 million

  • In the Interest of J. H.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Faye E. Hays, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and Jason T. Harper Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: William D. Patten Jr., Stockbridge, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough.
    Case Number: A02A1151

    The evidence did not support a finding that the child would suffer harm from a continued relationship with her mother, who had a history of DUI's and an admitted drinking pr

  • Mustaqeem-Graydon v. SunTrust Bank

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roosevelt Carter II, Albany, Larry A. Golston Jr., Montgomery, Ala., and Larry Givens, Dothan, Ala., for appellant.
    for defendant: . William A. Erwin Hodges, Erwin, Hedrick & Coleman, and Donald A. Sweat Gardner, Willis, Sweat & Goldsmith, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1505

    Plaintiff's breach of contract and fraud claims against a bank for alleged unaut d disbursement of funds on a construction loan failed since the undisputed evidence showed that the plaintiff au

  • Preacher v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald K. Thompson, Rincon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rene J. Martin III, District Attorney, Statesboro, and Tony A. May, Assistant District Attorney, Springfield, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2060

    The officer had probable cause to arrest the defendant based on his combative conduct at an accident

  • In Re: Morris Communications Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Hudson Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, and Katherine N. Lewis Holland & Knight, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee. Other party representation: Ronald E. Harrison II The Harrison Firm, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A02A0928

    The reporter's privilege did not apply to limited published information which the state sought to admit at a criminal defendant's robbery