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  • In the Interest of G. B.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tamara Jacobs, Barnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Nina J. Edidin, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and W. Ashley Hawkins, Forsyth, for appellee. Other Party Representation: Karen K. Martin Martin & Martin, Barnesville.
    Case Number: A03A1146

    The mother's intent to allow her child to continue visiting the grandmother's violent home supported the termination of the mother's parental r

  • In the Interest of M. M.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Rabb Wilkerson III, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: in A03A1174. Lisa J. Allen, APO, AE, for appellant in A03A1175. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Walter G. Sammons Jr., Warner Robins, for appellee. Other party representation: Jon A. Nixon, Warner Robins.
    Case Number: A03A1174; A03A1175

    The evidence did not support termination of the mother and father's parental rights where there was no evidence of continuing domestic abuse and both parents cooperated with DFACS, maintained stable

  • Clyde v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0054

    The evidence was insufficient to show the defendant's guilt as either a party to the crimes or a conspi

  • 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

  • Pabey v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Perry, St. Marys, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, and Jacquelyn L. Johnson, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0299

    The defendant was entitled to summary judgment in the civil forfeiture action brought against her under the RICO statute because the state's evidence was insuffi

  • Manuel v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Edward Marks Jr., Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0780

    The trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence that the defendant committed an armed robbery three years earlier to show the defendant's course of co

  • Tiller v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven A. Cook, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Laura J. Murphee and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0270

    The officer's prolonged detention of driver and search of vehicle after valid traffic stop was illegally based on hearsay evidence from an unknown ti

  • Perry v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lauren H. Williamson Hall & Williamson PC, Albany, for Nashon Perry. Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for Clyde. Edward R. Collier Collier & Gamble, Dawson, for James Perry. Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S03A0053; S03A0054; S03A0055

    The trial court did not unfairly state the law in relation to the defendants' rights when it repeated certain charges to the

  • Jerry Dickerson Presents Inc. v. Concert/Southern Chastain Promotions

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Bauer Jr. Bauer & Deitch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward K. Smith Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Susan A. Cahoon and Michael W. Tyler Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Kendric E. Smith City of Atlanta Dep't of Law, Diane P. Flannery, Dean A. Calloway Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Samira Jones Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0680

    A business arrangement between Chastain Park's concert promoter and a mi -owned concert promotion business, under which a percentage of the venue's available event dates were subleased to the m

  • In the Interest of K. S.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sonya R. Chachere-Compton, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2198

    The evidence supported the juvenile court's findings that the mother lacked the ability to care for her children and that termination of her parental rights was in their best inte