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  • Moresi v. Evans

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. Bills, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William H. Major III and Peter R. York Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1168

    The Supreme Court in Webster v. Boyett, 269 Ga. 191 1998, did not mandate that trifurcation of a trial amounts to reversible error, but only suggested that trifurcation should be used on rare occa

  • Conley v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Akil K. Secret Axam, Adams & Secret, Atlanta, and Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Herman M. Kilgore and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1812

    Hearsay evidence that the 3-year old victim told a doctor that his father had burned him with a cigarette was admissible since both the doctor and the victim testified at

  • In the Interest of T. H.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michele W. Ogletree and Harold A. Sturdivant Sullivan & Sturdivant, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Daniel A. Hiatt, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, 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

  • Sanders v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2002-10-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald L. Mize, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John H. Moore and Amy K. Weber Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1899

    Non-privileged writings and statements authorized the jury to find that plaintiff's brother falsely and maliciously impugned plaintiff's title to 38.6 acres of

  • Gray v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Y. Brown, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1524

    Defendant's intent to shoot at the victims in their car transferred to a fourth victim who was in her house when the gunfire exploded her patio

  • Schaner v. Sterling Factors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Whelan, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1215

    The trial court was not required to hold an evidentiary hearing on defendants' wilfulness where they completely failed to respond to discovery and the attempts to force them to c

  • The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Inc. v. F. S. Assocs. LP

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles H. Richards Jr. Richards & Dalton LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel J. Crowe Toliver & Gainer, Conyers, Beth S. Reeves and Amy K. Radley Mabry, & McClelland LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1678

    O.C.G.A. § 13-8-2 b did not void the indemnification provision in the parties'

  • Zachery v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, and Heather C. Waters, Assistant Solicitor General, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2005

    Defendant attempted to pull a police officer off of another man's legs while officers were trying to restrai

  • Nicholson v. Windham

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emory L. Palmer, Christine L. Mast, H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, G. Robert Oliver and Anne M. Zavala-Moushey Oliver, Duckworth, Sparger & Winkle PC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0948

    A jury issue remained as to whether the individual defendants tortiously interfered with the plaintiff's employment contract by soliciting her to engage in criminal activity and causing her terminat

  • In the Interest of K. C. H.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Laura R. Gailey Moulton & Massey LLC, Eatonton, 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, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and John R. Laseter, Special Assistant Attorney General, Monroe, for appellee. Other party representation: Lisa M. Baig, Covington, Douglas L. Price, Milledgeville, and Tiffany J. Ellenberg, Madison.
    Case Number: A02A1575

    The mother's refusal to distance her child from her husband who had molested on of her other children supported the termination of her parental r