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  • Thornton v. Intveldt

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Hogan Jr. Manko & Hogan, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. Boyd and Catherine M. Knight Boyd, Collar & Knight LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0030

    Attorneys' fees are not authorized in an action seeking change of custody by the noncustodial p

  • Stevenson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Jones Jr., Greenville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Robert N. Peterkin, Assistant District Attorney, Greenville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2385

    A grand juror's disqualification is not a viable ground for quashing an indic

  • Cash in Advance of Fla. Inc. v. Jolley

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas C. James III and Stephen L. Dillard James, Bates, Pope & Spivey, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Bruce F. Morriss Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Sidney L. Moore Jr., Sidney L. Moore III, Atlanta, and William G. Dobson Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2155

    The class action plaintiff could not establish that she will be unable to vindicate her statutory rights to attorneys' fees under the Truth in Lending Act under the terms of the parties' arbitration

  • Lamb v. T-Shirt City Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Gordon Lamb, Duluth, proceeded pro se. David M. Lilenfeld and William K. Carmichael Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
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    Case Number: A04A1717

    The plaintiff's assertion of superior claim of title to money judgment was barred by res judicata, since his assignor could have had the merits of the claim addressed in her previous suit seeking in

  • 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

  • Hart v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Melton III, Hartwell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1997

    Trial counsels' decision not to raise the defendant's mental health in connection with his obstruction charge was based on trial strategy, since they intended to argue that defendant kicked the offi

  • Brantley v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Darden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Larry Chisolm, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2329

    Defense counsel's decision not to request charges on alibi and mere association was a matter of trial ta

  • State v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2005-03-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry E. Morgan, Cobb Solicitor General, Jessica K. Moss, Chief Assistant Solicitor General, Nell A. Pedigo, Assistant Solicitor, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Victor P. Valmus Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2128

    The officer's conduct in securing the defendant's consent to a state-administered breath test and her initial equivocation was fair and reaso

  • In the Interest of T. R.

    Publication Date: 2004-12-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Hatfield Law Office of J. Mark Hatfield, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John D. Staggs Jr., Waycross, for appellee. Other party representation: Mary J. Cardwell and C. Deen Strickland, Waycross.
    Case Number: A04A1573

    The mother disobeyed a court order preventing the from having contact with her former stepfather and the former stepfather subsequently molested the

  • Harris v. SAL Fin. Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fredric Chaiken, Charlotte K. Perrell and Robert J. Kaufman Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . G. Wayne Hillis Jr. and Aaron W. Lipson Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General, and Edward H. Lindsey Jr. Goodman, McGuffey, Aust & Lindsey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A04A0926

    The arbitration clause in an agreement, which allowed an attorney who established a charitable trust for his client to buy and sell securities on behalf of the trust, was severable because the contr