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  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Tasha M. Mosley, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0852

    The trial court erred in dismissing the defendant's appeal for a delay in filing the trial transcript where the defendant claim she could not afford to pay for the transcript and the trial court had

  • Williamson v. Georgia Dep't of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elliott B. Watkins, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Annette M. Cowart and Bryan K. Webb, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1613

    Sovereign immunity did not bar the plaintiff's claim against her state employers under the federal Americans with Disabilities Act since the Fair Employment Practices Act creates a state right of ac

  • 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