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  • 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

  • Clark v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Deborah R. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2255

    The fact that the informant met with the officer, volunteered to set up the drug buy, specifically described defendant, defen truck and the location of the sell, and provided police with defe

  • Wiley v. Liberty Southern Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Crawford and Thomas E. Greer Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2335

    The company that managed the hotel where plaintiff slipped and fell down the stairs was not entitled to summary judgment because there was evidence that a wet spot at the top of the stairs was not

  • Anatek Inc. v. CSX Realty Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Armbruster Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher W. Phillips Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0562

    The plaintiff's contract with the defendant's lessee for improvements to the leased premises did not subject the defendant's property to an enforceable lien because there was no contractual relation

  • Green v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Stephen E. Spencer, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2306

    The state negated any inference that a not-guilty verdict would make it worse for the v by telling the jury that their decision would not change what happened to the v