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  • Ishak v. Lanier Contractors Supply Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald K. Woods, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dana B. Miles Miles, McGoff & Moore LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Edward F. Danowitz, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A1844

    Evidence that an individual defendant conveyed a corporation's primary asset to himself without payment of adequate consideration and appropriated corporate funds for his own personal use supported

  • Hill v. Centennial/Ashton Properties Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Roberts The Roberts Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John K. Train IV Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Thomas A. Graham, Atlanta, and Warren R. Hinds, Roswell, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2434

    The express language of the parties' contingency fee a nt provided for the calculation of attorneys' fees based on the attorney's hourly rate for work she performed prior to termination of the

  • State Personnel Bd. v. McCormick

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Bryan K. Webb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sandra L. Michaels, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0019

    Under OCGA § 24-3-2, conversations and similar evidence are admissible as original evidence in a legal investigation to explain conduct and ascertain mo

  • Phillips v. South West Mechanical Contractors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas R. Powell, Debra K. Haan Hinton & Powell, and Scott E. Tinnon, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William P. Tinkler Jr., Decatur, Robert F. Dangle Price, Pyles, Dangle, Parmer & Rooks, Carrollton, Charles A. Wiley Jr. and James A. Rice Jr. Fain, Major, Wiley & Brennan PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1935

    Plaintiffs' wrongful death claim arising out of an accident involving an stolen ATV and a disabled dump failed because there was no evidence that defendant was negligent in leaving the disable

  • Jones v. Bank of Am. Mortgage, f/k/a NationsBank Mortgage

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Earl A. Davidson Giddens, Davidson & Mitchell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry W. Johnson Morris, Schneider & Prior LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0216

    The evidence showed that plaintiff failed to make his monthly installment payments on a promissory note when due and the terms of the note allowed the holder to sell the secured property at auction

  • Hall v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua D. Earwood, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0587

    The trial court properly excluded the victim's prior accusation of molestation because defendant failed to show that the accusation had a reasonable probability of being

  • Sun v. Mercedes Benz Credit Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. McKnight Jr. Freed & Bermen PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Carmichael and Shawn M. Winterich Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1822

    A liquidated damages provision obligating the lessee to pay a monthly lease payment in addition to all of the lease payments due and owing under the lease at the time of the lessee's default, was an

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms Office of the DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, and Gregory K. Schwarz, Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1916

    The victim presumably waived any marital privilege she may have had as defendant's common-law wife when she voluntarily testified at defendant's

  • Lane v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jacqueline J. Herring, Fulton County Conflict Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1778

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that defendant did not waive his right to open and close arguments when his co-defendant's counsel had a police witness read a portion of hi

  • In the Interest of R. W. & W. W.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley S. Powell, Hampton, and Martin C. Jones Webb, Stuckey & Lindsey LLC, Peachtree City, 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 W. Ashley Hawkins, Special Assistant Attorney General, Forsyth, for appellee. Other party representation: Wilson H. Bush Bush & Smith, Jackson.
    Case Number: A01A2410

    Evidence that the children lived in a trash-filled home with a broken toilet and that the mother left them unsupervised supported the termination of the mother's parental r