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  • Footstar Inc. d/b/a Meldisco Shoe-Mart v. Stevens

    Publication Date: 2005-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert K. Hardeman, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Bert J. Slotkin and Andrea R. Mitchell Richter, Head, Shinall & White, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Edward E. Boshears, Bruswick.
    Case Number: A05A0883

    Evidence supported the appellate division's ruling that the employee's compensation claim was compensable as a change in condition, even though her original workers' compensation award was for medic

  • Rokowski v. Gilbert

    Publication Date: 2005-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vernita L. Lee, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Chris E. Ambrose, Douglas K. Silvis Silvis, Ambrose & Lindquist PC, Thomasville, and David A. Parker, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0993

    The Inter Compact for the Placement of Children did not apply to a case involving a child whose adult aunt brought her into the

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charlie B. Thompson Jr., Leesburg, proceeded pro se. Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, and Katherine K. Lumsden, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A05A1242

    The defendant was not entitled to appointed counsel on his motion for an out-of-time appeal, which was not part of a first appeal of

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-08-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Kidd, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0877

    The defendant sold a gun consistent with the one used in an armed robbery of a restaurant, in which $400 in rolled coins were stolen, and he was arrested in possession of two rolls of pennies from t

  • Graves v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Forest L. Miles, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1392

    The defendant could not prove entrapment where he was predisposed to commit the

  • Bouve and Mohr LLC v. Banks

    Publication Date: 2005-08-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Carlock, Mary K. Greene and Renee Y. Little Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James A. Goldstein and Jonathan P. Hayes James A. Goldstein PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0687

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in sanctioning the defendant for spoliation, because the police officer investigating the plaintiff's rape case was also employed by the defendant as a s

  • Cutter v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen R. Yekel, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and George R. Asinc, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0031

    The officer was not required to ignore a small, crack-cocaine type substance that he felt in the defendant's identification cardh

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul K. Cook, Vidalia, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, District Attorney, Mary K. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, and David C. Walker, Assistant District Attorney, Carnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0741

    The trial court's error in admitting an unauthenticated audiotape of the second of two controlled buys between defendant and a confidential informant was harmless, in light of other direct and circu

  • Henry v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Edwards, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, and Brian A. McDaniel, Assistant District Attorney, Moultrie, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0441

    The indictment's six-year time frame did not render it insuffi

  • Brown v. Morton

    Publication Date: 2005-07-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Smith, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Derek M. Wright and Alan M. Shenberg The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0558

    Defe did not violate the Fair Business Practice Act when they accepted payment for the installation of a pool they had no intention of completing, since there was no evidence showing that def