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  • In the Interest of A. K.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Victoria E. Rowan, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Andrea R. Moldovan, Douglasville, for appellee. Other party representation: Jerry F. Pittman, Douglasville, Rita F. Cooper, Powder Springs.
    Case Number: A05A0670

    The Court remanded for a further determination regarding a 7-year-old child's placement following the termination of her mother's parental rights, because DFACS did not present sufficient evidence o

  • In the Interest of K. N.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Holly A. Bradfield, Rome, for appellee. Other party representation: Timothy J. Crouch, Rome.
    Case Number: A04A1820

    The mother failed to properly care for her own H.I.V.-positive status, maintain a job, regularly attend scheduled visits or develop a basic relationship with her

  • In the Interest of K. S.

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2134

    A finding of deprivation must be based on the parent's unfi

  • Layfield v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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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. Castellow Finley & Buckley PC, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reagan W. Dean, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A1786

    Absent evidence of causation or negligence, defendants were entitled to summary judgment in plaintiff's suit arising out of a 1-car acc

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Robert B. Faircloth Newton County District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0141

    The defendant's conviction for cocaine possession was reversed due to the ineffective assistance of his trial co

  • City of Atlanta v. Clayton County Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward K. Smith Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian R. Dempsey, Lovejoy, and Jack R. Hancock, Forest Park, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0925

    A parcel of land at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, which the city of Atlanta leased to the United States Postal Service for mail sorting, was not exempt from Clayton county ad valorem tax

  • In re Frazier

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Jerry W. Frazier, Riverdale. C. Bradford Marsh, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S05Y0286

    An attorney, who pled guilty to multiple felonies, including mail fraud, voluntarily surrendered his li

  • In the Interest of H. Y.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph F. Forsythe, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Billie J. Crane Mundy & Gammage PC, Cedartown, for appellee. Other party representation: Richard J. Lundy Parker & Lundy, Cedartown.
    Case Number: A04A2245

    The evidence clearly established that the mother's actions and omissions, both before and after the children were placed in DFACS care, constituted neglect and that the children's deprivation was li

  • Whitmire v. Georgia Power Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hardy Gregory Jr., Cordele, Francis L. Morris Jr. Morris, Webster & Corless, Tifton, Bobby L. Cook, Summerville, and Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hugh B. McNatt McNatt & Greene, Vidalia, John R. Reinhardt Reinhardt & Whitley, Tifton, Charles J. Willcox Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rodgers, Louis E. Hatcher, Albany, and Robert L. Pennington, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A04A0826

    The Utilities Protection Center was not required to provide notice to the owner and operator of a high-voltage overhead power line, where the responsible party affirmatively denied that work would b

  • Hines v. Georgia Ports Auth.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nobel L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs. PC, for Hines and others. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, Mary K. Moss, Thomas Mahoney Jr., Thomas J. Mahoney III Ranitz, Mahoney, Mahoney & Moss PC, Savannah, for the Georgia Ports Authority and others. Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Marc G. Marling, David F. Sipple, Robert S. Glenn Jr., Colin A. B. McRae Hunter MacLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Gordon D. Schreck Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee PA, Charleston, SC, and Stephen H. Vengrow Cichanowich, Callan, Keane, Venegrow & Texto, New York, NY, for Rickmers and others. Amicus appellant: John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta, in S03G1848.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03G1813; S03G1821; S03G1820; S03G1848

    The Georgia Ports Authority is not a state arm entitled to immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution with regard to the plaintiffs' federal maritime torts c