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  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough and Carl W. McMillan Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney S. Haskins II, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Byron Attridge King & Spalding, Hardy Gregory Jr. Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP and J. Alexander Porter Porter, Orrison & Doster LLP, Atlanta,
    Case Number: S04G0322

    The Court of Appeals erred in ruling that an Unliquidated Damages Interest Act, O.C.G.A. § 51-12-14 UDIA, determination should be made on an award of compensatory damages augmented by a variety of o

  • Milner v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry V. Smith and Bret E. Rudeseal, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Kay A. Wetherington, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1530

    The court's violation of O.C.G.A. § 17-8-57 did not seriously affect the integrity of the judicial proceedings where the court attempted to protect the pro se defendant's right to a fair

  • Board of Tax Assessors of Ware County Ga. v. Baptist Village Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Huey W. Spearman, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas C. James III, Stephen L. Dillard James, Bates, Pope & Spivey, Macon, and Vann K. Parrot Long & Denton, Quitman, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1215

    The trial court properly determined that appellee's independent-living units were entitled to the same home for the aged ad valorem property tax exemption under O.C.G.A. § 48-5-41 a 12 as its assist

  • In the Interest of A. B.

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shane M. Geeter, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas J. O'Donnell, Milledgeville, for appellee. Other party representation: Kelli C. Rutherford, Gray.
    Case Number: A04A0774

    DFACS did not prove deprivation from alleged Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy where others observed the child's eating difficulties and seizures, the mother agonized over whether surgery was appropriate

  • Brogdon v. Brogdon

    Publication Date: 2004-01-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bradley M. Hannan Smith, Hannan & Parker PC, Valdosta, for Stacey Brogdon et al. Berrien L. Sutton, Christopher S. Badeaux Sutton & Assocs. PC, Homerville, and Bryant H. Bower Jr., Waycross, for Janice Brogdon et al. Other party representation: Clayton A. Tomlinson, Homerville.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2502; A03A2503

    Evidence that the parents never adequately explained how their 2-month-old child suffered multiple leg fractures supported the termination of their parental r

  • Georgia Dep't of Community Health, Div. of Health Planning v. Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Clyde L. Reese, Deputy Attorneys General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and James D. Coots, Atlanta, for Georgia Dep't of Community Health. Jeffrey C. Baxter, Stanley S. Jones Jr. and Jennifer D. Malinovsky Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for EHCA LLC. Randall L. Hughes, Adrienne E. Marting, Charlotte A. Combre And John S. Rees Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Alexander S. Clay Kilpatrick & Cody, John W. Ray, Dawnmarie Rodziewicz and James M. Sherman Ray & Sherman, Atlanta, for Saint Joseph's Hosp. Other Party Representation: Kathy K. Dorough Dorough & Dorough LLC, Decatur.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1214; A03A1215; A03A1216; A03A1217

    The provisions of O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2 14, including the 12-month service rule, establish when an institution must apply for a hospital certificate of need, not whether an application is for a "new" or

  • Bryant v. Hoffman La Roche Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird and Jonathan T. McCants Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard B. North Jr., Matthew B. Lerner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, and Leslie J. Bobo Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0661

    Once a prima facie case for design defect is established, a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that 1 the product is properly manufactured a

  • Williams v. Young

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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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 Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, and Charles K. Wainright II, Albany, for appellees. Other party representation: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, and Antoinette D. Johnson, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1393

    The plaintiff filed suit more than two years after the defendant allegedly misdiagnosed her medical cond

  • Bickerstaff Automotive Inc. v. Tsepas

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. McKnight Jr. Freed & Bermen PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal B. Graham Buzzell, Graham & Welsh LLP and Timothy K. Hall, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1445

    The UCC provision allowing a seller to cure a nonconforming delivery did not preclude plaintiff from rescinding her "new" car lease and suing defendants for fraud after she learned that the car had

  • In the Interest of C. R.

    Publication Date: 2002-09-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward R. Downs Jr., Riverdale, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald R. Foster, Kasey G. Wyatt Foster & Foster, and Teresa O. Weiner, Jonesboro, for appellee. Other party representation: Evan J. Black, Jonesboro.
    Case Number: A02A1067

    The right to lodge religious objections to a child's immunizations is not a residual parental right under O.C.G.A. § 15-