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  • Georgia Ports Auth. v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, R.O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, George S. Zier, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas J. Mahoney Jr. Ranitz, Mahoney, Coolidge & Mahoney, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Noble L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs., Savannah, for appellees. Other party representation: Mary K. Hogan Ranitz, Mahoney, Coolidge & Mahoney PC, Savannah.
    Case Number: A99A2012, A99A2013

    The plaintiff's federal express delivery of his ante litem notice satisfied the personal delivery option of the Georgia Tort Claim

  • Guertin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth T. Israel, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, DeKalb, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0821

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to admissible testimony regarding the child victim's o

  • Kinman v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley R. Durden, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, Solicitor, and Phillip C. Griffeth, Chief Assistant Solicitor General, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2353

    Arresting officer's testimony that officer who initially stopped defendant requested his help with "a suspected DUI" provided sufficient evidence to justify arresting officer's conducting field sobr

  • Atkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Friedewald, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1697

    The victim's pediatrician could testify as to whether the victim's medical history was consistent with molestation, so long as she did not give an opinion as to whether the victim was actually mol

  • O'Kelley v. Hall County Bd. of Educ.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Perry M. Sartain, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alfred A. Quillian Jr. Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Philip J. Botwinik Hazelton & Sullivan, Todd K. Maziar, Atlanta, and Alex B. Wallach George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park.
    Case Number: A99A2096

    The administrative law judge correctly calculated the employee's average weekly wage under the doctrine of concurrent similar employment, since the employee had worked 13 weeks at her full-time job

  • Rahman v. Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold L. Kennedy III and Harvey L. Kennedy Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy & Kennedy, Winston-Salem, N.C., and Victor A. McLemore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nancy K. Deming and Carmie L. McCurry Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Elizabeth Honeywell and Paul D. Barker Jr. Venable, Baetjer & Howard LLP, Baltimore, Md., for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0685

    Since plaintiff did not pay her appeal costs or file an affidavit of indigency, the state court properly dismissed her appeal on the ground that the delay in transmitting the record was unreasonable

  • Rabern v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Brown Jr., McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1846

    The state failed to show that the forfeiture of the defendant's home and surrounding acreage was not excessive in comparison with his use of a shed attached to the home to grow 3-inch marijuana p

  • Means v. Marshalls

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Hunter, Brian K. Jackson Hendrick & Hunter and Andrew B. Koplan Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Doyle II and Douglas A. Wilde Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0354

    The plaintiff could not recover for the injuries she sustained when she slipped on debris in the defendant's dressing room, even if she was distracted by an emergency involving her stepdaughter, bec

  • Johnson v. Atlanta Housing Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen F. Harris Gill, Peterson & Harris PC and James N. Sadd Slappey & Sadd, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Seaborn Jones, Elizabeth Knight and Roger K. Whitesides Gleaton, Scofield, Egan & Jones, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1898

    Landlord was not liable for tenant's being shot while sitting on a bench outside his apartment building, because tenant was aware of the danger of sitting on that bench at night and he failed to pay

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Feagle, Decatur, and Kris K. Skaar, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy and Keith E. Adams, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1906

    Erroneous admission of 6-year-old child's taped statement that her father beat her mother was harmless as the evidence was cumulative of the child's admissible res gestae statements and the victim's