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  • In the Interest of D.T.C.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: B. Samuel Engram Jr., Albany 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 Paula K. Hanington, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0036

    Evidence that the putative father took his child to a drug-infested area during his weekly visitations supported the termination of his parental r

  • Johnson v. Riverdale Anesthesia Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Hill Hill and Bleiberg, Atlanta, and Larry K. Evans Evans & Evans, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . H. Andrew Owen Jr. Harman, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2110

    The trial court properly excluded plaintiffs' irrelevant questions regarding what a defense expert would personally have done under the circumstances since the applicable standard of care is one emp

  • In the Interest of A. R.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sam F. Little Little, Adams, Bates & Kelehear PC, Dalton, 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 Cynthia N. Johnson Waycaster, Johnson, Morris & Dean, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2472

    Parents waived requirement that all proceedings in a deprivation a must be recorded when their attorney permitted an in-chambers interview with one of the children without obje

  • Hoffman v. AC&S Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas P. McManamy, Leslie S. Pickett and Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis Admas & Tate, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ivan A. Gustafson, Christopher G. Conley Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Athens, Michael J. Crist Hawkins & Parnell, Jeffrey A. Burmeister and Stevan A. Miller Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2409

    Plaintiff failed to raise a jury issue in her asbestos-related injury suit because none of her witnesses could testify that she was exposed to defendants' pro

  • In the Interest of A. T. H. and J. D. E.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher Shepherd, Athens, 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 Tony D. Coy, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2090

    Mother's convictions for felony murder and armed robbery in violation of her established reunification goal supported the termination of her parental r

  • CIBA Vision Corp. v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward K. Smith and Paul G. Willaims Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Warren R Calvert and Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2123

    Free samples of contact lenses given to eye-care professionals are subject to taxation under O.C.G.A. § 48

  • Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert J. Decusati McLain & Merritt PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James A. Goldstein and Peter A. Law, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2439

    Due to an improper jury charge on specific intent in the damages phase of plaintiff's trial, the judgment for plaintiff was affirmed on condition that she agrees to strike the award of punitive dam

  • Penland v. Corlew

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Perry Penland, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold D. Corlew, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Gail A. Mackinson and Cynthia L. Montgomery, Avondale Estate.
    Case Number: A00A1800

    Evidence that disputed funds were subject to conflicting claims and that disputed facts required preservation of the status quo supported trial court's interlocutory injun in an interpleader a

  • Chaney v. Burdett

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Gaulden Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. William Haley Perrie, Buker, Jones & Morton PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1895

    Because the surviving partner elected to continue the business following dissolution of the par ip by operation of law, the deceased partner's widow had no right to compel liquidation of the pa

  • Salinas v. Skelton

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sylvia R. Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce P. Brown, Gregory S. Brow Long, Aldridge & Norman, Joseph R. Cruser Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Sharon L. Rowen Rowen & Klonoski PC and Jennifer M. McBath Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1973

    A notification letter referring to the presence of asbestos in plaintiff's condominium which defendants produced during discovery was admissible as evidence that they had knowledge of the toxic subs