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  • Jordan v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, and William K. Wynne Jr., Chief Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2031

    Trial co s decision not to call any defense witnesses in order to retain the right to open and close arguments did not constitute ineffective assistance of co

  • Campbell v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, and William K. Wynne Jr. Chief Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0031

    The trial court was not required to charge the jury that it could consider circumstances that might have caused the Intoxilyzer 5000 machine to malfun

  • In the Interest of B.K.M.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Kimberly A. Homer, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. Fox Thompson, Fox, Joliff, Chandler & Homans, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2508, A00A2509

    A detailed description of the juveniles and their car, as well as the general timeframe and vicinity in which the crimes allegedly occurred, was sufficient evidence to justify a Terry

  • 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

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven H. Sadow, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney and William H. McClain, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0920

    Defendants must be given the opportunity to impeach the credibility of declarants whose statements are admitted under the medical diagnosis or treatment exception to the hearsay

  • City of Atlanta v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan P. Langford and Bruce P. Johnson City of Atlanta Dep't of Law, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd K. Maziar, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1056

    An injured police officer who quit work to receive a disability pension could not show that he was entitled to a resumption of temporary disability benefits based on a change in condition because he

  • Ellerbee v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tamara Jacobs Lindsey & Jacobs, Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, and Jamie K. Inagawa, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1849

    The state's failure to comply with the notice requirements for admissibility of simi ansaction evidence as set forth in USCR 31.1 was harmless because the defendant had actual notice of the sim

  • In the Interest of N.A.

    Publication Date: 2000-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy D. Plunkett, Thomson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1974

    Evidence that 12-year-old girl had sexual intercourse with at least two older teenage boys supported the finding that she committed the delinquent act of fornic

  • Georgia Public Serv. Comm'n v. ALLTEL Ga. Communications Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Deputy Attorney General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas K. Bond, Special Assistant Attorney General, John H. MacLean, Staff Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edgar H. Sims Jr., Bruce P. Brown, Gregory S. Brow and Alan R. Jenkins Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: James S. Hurt, Marietta, David I. Adelman Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Suzanne W. Ockleberry AT&T Communications, Fred J. McCallum Jr., Atlanta, Newton M. Galloway Newton Galloway & Assocs., Griffin.
    Case Number: A00A0397

    In reviewing the Georgia Public Service Commission's order reducing rates that communications company could charge long distance providers, the superior court exceeded the scope of its authority and