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Hankerson v. Hammett

Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan Hill Hill & Bleiberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Percy J. Blount Glover & Blount PC, Augusta, for appellees.
Case Number: A07A0553

No issue of material fact remained as to whether the employee was acting within scope of his employment when he collided with the plaintiff's daughter, since he was returning from a purely personal

Murray v. Georgia Dept. of Transp.

Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter F. Boyce, Catherine M. Packwood Peter F. Boyce PC, Duluth, David F. Walbert and Thomas D. Trask Parks, Chesin, Walbert & Miller PC, Atlanta, for Murray and others. Michael A. O'Quinn O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for Manning and others. Scott W. Kelly Fulcher Hagler LLP, Augusta, for CSX Transportation Inc. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General and Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the Georgia Depart. of Transp.
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Case Number: A06A1655; A06A1656

The county DOT is entitled to immunity from the plaintiffs' claims that its failure to act more quickly in installing an state DOT-approved traffic signal at an intersection proximately caused a fa

Stokes v. State

Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Sheppard, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: John D. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Mark A. Hendrix, Melissa L. Poole, Assistant District Attorneys, Hinesville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S06A1975

The defendant was one of three men, who lay in wait for the intended victim to make a night deposit from a dollar store, and, when the victim drove up in a truck, which resembled the intended victim

Layfield v. Department of Transp.

Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alfred N. Corriere, Albany, for appellant.
for defendant: Timothy J. Buckley III, Kelly R. Webb Finley & Buckley PC, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reagan W. Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
Case Number: A04A1786

An expert's opinion regarding the proximate cause of an accident was not speculative and the expert's credibility was a matter for the jury to d

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

June 30, 2006 |

Divulging Data

Government requests for customer information create liabilities.

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H. D. McCondichie Properties v. Georgia Dep't of Transp.

Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert and Jonathan E. Ganz Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, for appellant.
for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, and Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: A06A0426

The trial court properly excluded evidence that the DOT originally hired an expert the appellant late subpoenaed, since the issue of who originally hired the expert was irrelevant to the issue of j

May 29, 2006 | National Law Journal

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ANTITRUST Aviation fuel isn't motor vehicle fuel under law Minimum markup provisions applicable to &q

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Rosas v. State

Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1367

An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill

Rosas v. State

Publication Date: 2005-11-04
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
Case Number: A05A1367

An officer's request for consent to search for drugs during the course of a brief, on-going traffic stop does not, in and of itself, violate the Fourth Amendment so as to make a valid detention "ill