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  • Perrin v. Stansell

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Rothman Daniels & Rothman PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian S. Carney Timmons, Haggard & Carney, Athens, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0736

    The grandparent visitation provisions set forth in O.C.G.A. § 19-7-3 did not apply to maternal grandmother's petition for unsupervised visits with her grandchild since the paternal grandmother had t

  • Lee v. American Cent. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Slocumb, Macon, Wilton D. Harrington and John P. Harrington Smith & Harrington, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert M. Finlayson II and Edward C. Bresee Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0728

    If a mortgagor is not an insured under his business's fire insurance policy, then the insurer has no subrogation rights against the mortgagor with regard to the money it paid to the mort

  • Phagan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Kaufman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1022

    The evidence showed that the burglar entered the automobile dealership through a broken window and that the defendant was arrested inside the dealership with a bleeding

  • 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