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  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce K. Gray, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1186

    The victim testified that when she was 13 years old, the defendant forcibly placed his penis in her vagina and made two or three painful thrusts as she fought hi

  • In re Longino

    Publication Date: 2006-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Longino, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: Pinkie T. Toomer Fulton County Probate Court, Willie J. Lovett Jr. and Claudia P. Campo Fulton County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation Henry D. Fellows Jr. and Thomas K. Wingfield Fellow, Johnson & LaBriola LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1025

    The probate court's citation sufficiently notified the appellant so as to enable him to answer the charge that there was cause to revoke his letters as guardian of his incapacitated mother's propert

  • Noorani C-Stores Inc. v. Trico V Petroleum Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry D. Frantz Jr., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger F. Krause, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A1072

    The contract regarding the buy-back of a convenience store was not unenforceable for vagueness for failing to adequately describe the property involved, since it incorporated by reference an exhibit

  • Tanner v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew W. Powell, Public Defender, and Laurie K. Landsittel Public Defender's Office, Clarkesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1298

    Even if the officer had not waited for a drug dog to alert to the passenger side of the defendant's vehicle, the cocaine in the defendant's glove compartment would have been discovered during the in

  • In the Interest of T. C.

    Publication Date: 2006-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine B. Jones, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Andrew S. Foster, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1272

    Termination of the father's parental rights is supported by evidence that he has been incarcerated for much of the time the children have live with their godparents and his failure to meet any of h

  • Gulfstream Aerospace Servs. Corp. v. United States Aviation Underwriters Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Britt and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Savannah, Jon A. Kodani and Jeffrey J. Williams Law Office of Jon A. Kodani, Santa Monica, Calif., for appellees. Other party representation: J. Arthur Mozley Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0660

    One who undertakes to render services has a duty to exercise reasonable care, and some evidence showed that appellant's subsidiary undertook review of an airplane's logbooks in 1998 for compliance w

  • Scott v. City of Valdosta

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Saleem D. Dennis, Preyesh K. Maniklal and Richard A. Wilkes Gregory, Christy, Maniklal & Dennis LLP, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James L. Elliott Elliott & Blackburn PC, Timothy M. Tanner and George T. Talley Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland, Valdosta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0128

    The plaintiff's false arrest and false imprisonment claims against the county and city defendants were barred by sovereign imm

  • Rite-Aid Corp. v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2006-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Bruffey Jr. and Christi L. Hodges Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thomas W. Herman Westmoreland, Patterson, Moseley & Hinson LLP, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Board of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0682

    The plaintiff was entitled to compensation for a catastrophic injury under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-200.1 g 6, as it existed when she was injured in May 1996, because there was evidence that she could not pe

  • Banks v. City of Hampton

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Westbury Jr. Mullins, Whalen & Westbury, Griffin, Stephanie K. Jones, Rex, and Steven M. Fincher Fincher & Hecht LLC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0159

    A party's financial interest in a case cannot be dispositive of whether he or she is a "nominal party" for venue purposes and venue and jurisdiction are not conferred based on the party with the gre

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mario S. Ninfo Ninfo & Ross PA, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0008

    The trial court erred in sentencing the defendant to serve a life sentence without parole on his convictions for rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, burglary and false imprisonment, since t