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  • The Best Jewelry Mfg. Co. Inc. v. ARC Sec. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael N. Weathersby and Roger C. Wilson Evert & Weathersby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Malcolm Smith Lokey & Smith, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Sewell K. Loggins and Jennifer E. Theobold Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP, David M. Brown and Jason S. Bell Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A0433

    The plaintiff's suit arising out of a jewelry theft at an airport security checkpoint was barred by the 2-year time limitation on claims for loss or damage to baggage which was expressly incorporat

  • In the Interest of A.W.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, 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 Michael D. Devane, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0358

    No clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's parental rights where the mother complied with reunification plan by maintaining a clean home for more than a year, obtain

  • Giraldo v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William G. Quinn III, Decatur, for Giraldo. Stephen T. Maples, Bernard Knight and Karlyn Skall, Decatur, for Brutus. J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Kristin M. Childers and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee. Other party representation: William C. Puckett Jr. and William G. Quinn III, Decatur.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A00A2037; A00A2038

    Police are authorized to retain non-Schedule I drugs confiscated in previous investigations and use them in reverse-sting operations so long as the origin of the drugs has been documented and forfei

  • In the Interest of T.R.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Epps, Gray, 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 Philip B. Spivey, Milledgeville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2492

    Evidence that mother was untruthful during an alcohol abuse assessment, that her younger children were in foster care as a result of her arrest and that she smelled of alcohol at the time of her arr

  • In the Interest of A. M. W.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine E. Graddy and Berrien L. Sutton Sutton & Associates, Homerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, F. Shea Browning Helms & Helms PC, Charles R. Reddick and Clayton A. Tomlinson, Homerville, for appellee. Other party representation: Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A01A0195

    Evidence that mother was unemployed, was prohibited from unsupervised contact due to her sentence for cruelty to children and refused to admit wrong in failing to intervene when her husband sexually

  • In the Interest of C.C.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elena M. Mushkin and Eric G. Kocher Georgia Law Center for the Homeless, 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, Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, and Robert J. Grayson Edwards, Friedewald & Grayson, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Catherine C. Vandenberg Cobb County Legal Aid, Marietta.
    Case Number: A01A0349

    DFACS did not prove deprivation where evidence showed that mother sought treatment for her mental illness and ensured that her child received proper care in the in

  • Alvarado v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0741

    The trial court did not improperly enhance defendant's sentence by sentencing him for aggravated child molestation for the first time and converting his sentence from a concurrent sentence to a cons

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0285

    Defendant was not entitled to withdraw his guilty plea to statutory rape after he waived reading of the indictment, said he understood the understood the charge, informed the trial court that he wa

  • State v. Gibbons

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Donald S. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jay Choate, Cartersville, for appellee. Other party representation: Rex B. Abernathy and Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville.
    Case Number: A00A1885

    Defendants were not free to go following a traffic stop for a seatbelt violation because the officer held the driver's license while he questioned

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant and Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Griffin B. Bell, Michael C. Russ and John P Brumbaugh King & Spalding, for appellee. Other party representation: Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, Evans J. Plowden Jr. and Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany.
    Case Number: A00A2362

    Evidence that a disputed payment was conditional on its acceptance as payment in full required the trial court to comply with a written request to issue part B of the pattern charge on accord and sa