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  • In the Interest of M. R.

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul M. Ledbetter, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John J. Martin, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1059

    Clear and convincing evidence supported the juvenile court's determination that the children's deprivation would continue, despite the father's recent efforts to comply with his reunification case

  • Cochran v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nina M. Svoren and Timothy P. Healy Healy & Svoren, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Jodi Dick, Atlanta, and Laura D. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon.
    Case Number: S06G0067

    The affidavit, which stated that the confidential informant saw a third-party enter the defendant's house with $40 in cash and emerge 30 seconds later holding a rock of crack cocaine, provided proba

  • Mitchell v. Georgia Dep't of Community Health

    Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Claire C. Murray, Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, James W. Boswell III, Misty M. Speake King & Spaulding, Michael R. Hurst Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ga. Inc., and David C. Will Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Michelle K. McDonald and Toni Castel Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1073

    The plaintiff received actual notice prior to her surgery that the provider was not in her PPO provider

  • In the Interest of T. C.

    Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine B. Jones, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Andrew S. Foster, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1272

    Termination of the father's parental rights is supported by evidence that he has been incarcerated for much of the time the children have live with their godparents and his failure to meet any of h

  • Green v. Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lloyd B. Hedrick Jr. and Evan R. Mermelstein Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2096

    The plaintiff failed to show that a home store had actual or constructive notice of the alleged hazard-a box of light bulbs that fell on the plaintiff's head from an overhead

  • McGruder v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis L. Hubbard Jr. Franklin & Hubbard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0362

    Evidence that the defendant engaged in an ongoing course of conduct of molesting the victim over a period of three years showed that the defendant molested the victim after he turned 17 years of ag

  • In the Interest of K. A. S.

    Publication Date: 2006-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jamie G. Averett, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Joshua D. Earwood, Barry S. Haney, Neel & Smith, Cartersville, and Jason P. Hood, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0508

    Evidence that the mother failed to substantially comply with the reunification plan by failing to maintain stable, legal income or stable housing, supported the termination of her parental r

  • State v. Dukes

    Publication Date: 2006-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, and Samuel M. Olmstead District Attorney's Office, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald R. Parker, Assistant Pub. Defender, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0551

    The defendant's exercise of his right to leave a first-tier encounter with officers by fleeing did not constitute obstru

  • Simon Property Group Inc. v. Benson

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca M. Lamberth, John L. Coalson Jr., Colin K. Kelly and Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, and Charles C. Clay, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John F. Salter Jr., Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, and Gary J. Toman Nation, Toman, Nutter & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2256

    The gift cards and certificates in question cannot be deemed abandoned under the Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act, since the defendant issued them less than five years prior the plaintiffs'

  • Green v. Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lloyd B. Hedrick Jr. and Evan R. Mermelstein Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A2096

    The plaintiff failed to show that a home store had actual or constructive notice of the alleged hazard-a box of light bulbs that fell on the plaintiff's head from an overhead