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  • In the Interest of S. M. W.

    Publication Date: 2007-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phillip Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason S. Naunas, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0850

    The father substantially complied with his case plan goals by receiving a substance abuse assessment, regularly participating in a drug a ohol treatment programming, testing negative for drugs

  • In the Interest of K. D.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade N. Krueger Georgia Legal Servs., Valdosta, Vicky O. Kimbrell, Lisa J. Krisher and Phyllis J. Holmen Georgia Legal Servs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick Charles R. Reddick PC, Homerville, for appellee. Other party representation: John G. Edwards and Jason B. Moon, Valdosta.
    Case Number: A07A0099

    The father's failure to form a parental bond with the child or comply with his case plan supported the termination of his parental r

  • Snelson v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herman M. Kilgore, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Jesse D. Evans and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.w
    Case Number: A07A0834

    The trial counsel's arguably deficient performance in not utilizing Georgia's reciprocal discovery procedure to obtain a copy of the note that the victim wrote stating that she lent the defendant he

  • Chatfield v. Adkins-Chatfield

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Veronica E. Brinson, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lewis J. Patterson, Haddock, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07F0197

    The husband's argument that the oral order directing him to pay $14,593 in insurance proceeds to the wife by August 10, 2005 was ineffective as a matter of law disregarded the existence of an earlie

  • Thompson v. General Security Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2007-06-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manley F. Brown, John C. Clark, Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal Brown & Clark PC, Charles M. Cork III Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Macon, and Dennis P. Helmreich, Lexington, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph R. Cruser, Nola D. Jackson Cruser & Mitchell, Norcross, Stephanie C. Patel, R. Clay Porter Dennis, Corry, Porter & Smith, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jeffrey W. Stump, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0699; A07A0700

    The trial court did not err in ruling that the defendant insurer filed a Form K, Uniform Notice of Cancellation of Motor Carrier Insurance Policies, with the Georgia Public Service Commission PSC on

  • In the Interest of K. M.

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Luttrell, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Dana M. Thompson, Canton, for appellee. Other party representation: James E. Drane III and Gregory T. Douds Flint & Connolly, LLP, Canton.
    Case Number: A07A0139

    The mother moved 12 times in three years, did not visit her children for 14 months, had no phone or transportation, failed to pay child support, did not undergo required substance abuse assessment a

  • In the Interest of D. T.

    Publication Date: 2007-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: S. Morgan Robinson S. Morgan Robinson PC, and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Hope M. Pereira, Woodstock, for appellee. Other party representation: Scott R. King Slater & King, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1815

    Evidence that the mother could not control her 15-year-old child to the extent necessary for his mental, physical or emotional health and has called the police on him 44 times in 16 month period, su

  • 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.
    for defendant:
    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

  • Banks v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth D. Kondritzer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1560

    Eight post-incision autopsy photographs were admissible to show injuries under the victim's scalp and to his

  • Hersh v. Griffith

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Tuszynski, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula A. Morgan, Rory K. Starkey County Attorney's Office, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and David B. Fife, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A2023

    Evidence that the plaintiff did not attempt to yield in response to an officer's flashing blue lights and air horn prior to colliding with a house being moved in the opposite direction on a street i