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  • Bassett v. Harrington

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric K. Maxwell, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William M. Amos Sharon W. Ware & Associates, Richard W. Kelley, Atlanta, and E. Gilmore Maxwell Smith, Welch, Studdard & Brittain, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1826

    The plaintiff could not sue her husband for the injuries she sustained in an accident, even though she filed her suit before they were ma

  • In the Interest of B.J.W.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: E. Michael Moran, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Woodbine, and John B. Johnson III, Assistant District Attorney, Jesup, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2001

    The trial court transferred the juvenile's case to superior court without balancing his amenability to treatment in the juvenile system with the interests of the comm

  • Wang v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert E. Shuman and Thomas R. Morgan Jr. Shuman & Assocs., Manchester, for appellant.
    for defendant: Evan R. Mermelstein, Bruce M. Edenfield Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Susan L. Rutherford, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2489

    The college dean and the college's chief academic officer were immune from liability for their actions in firing a non-tenured faculty member who was absent from the first week of classes without

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer F. Snyder-Surges, DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Gregory K. Schwarz, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2167

    The trial court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress the cocaine and gun which he threw away while the officers were pursuing him on

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Luana K. Walsh, Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1934

    Defendant waived his argument regarding the prosecutor's improper closing comment on his failure to contact police because defendant did not object to the comment at

  • Duke v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer F. Snyder-Surges, DeKalb County Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, and Yolanda K. Johnson, Assistant Solicitor, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2377

    The arresting officers lacked probable cause to stop a rental van based on a radio lookout from undercover officers who did not observe any criminal act

  • In the Interest of L.J.L. and R.L.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Mary Dean Hermann, Fulton County Child Advocate, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2488

    DFACS failed to show that a mother who completed drug treatment and parenting programs was presently

  • Jorisch v. Rhythm Festival Inc. a/k/a Rhythm Fest

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paula Jorisch, Washington, D.C., proceeded pro se. Thomas D. Trask, Noah H. Pines Dennis, Corry & Porter LLP, J. Franklin Burns and Christine A. Carson Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A00A2122

    A company that rented modified vans for use in transporting disabled passengers did not provide specified public transportation service or operate a demand responsive or fixed route system with the

  • Georgia Dept. of Human Resources v. Coley

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, John C. Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Bruce M. Edenfield and Robert L. Bunner Gray Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Lawson Lawson & Priebe, Jason K. Priebe and Charles E. Cox Jr., Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1491

    Under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, the state was immune from a suit involving the strangulation of the plaintiff's brother at a state hos

  • Williams v. Young M.D. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Klosik Jr., Jason R. Manton and Robert J. McCune Green, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless and Charles K. Wainright II, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1393

    The Court of Appeals adopted the continuous treatment doctrine and concluded that plaintiff's medical malpractice claim was not barred as a matter of law because she filed her claim within two years