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  • Helmley v. Liberty County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen D. Barr and Arvo H. Henifin Barr, Warner, Lloyd & Henifin, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Luther K. Davis, James N. Osteen Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold and Leon M. Braun Jr., Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A0534

    Plaintiffs' claim that the defendant's 20-year-old business violates a ant prohibiting the use of his property for commercial purposes is barred by the 2-year statute of limitation for breach o

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul Fryer, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, and Anthony E. Paulsen III, Assistant District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2259

    Even if the defendant's a violated his Fourth Amendment rights, he was not entitled to a new trial because he did not claim that his conviction rested upon evidence seized as a result of his a

  • In the Interest of C.G.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard R. Schlueter, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Dennis R. Dunn, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, and Albert A. Myers III Mumford, Myers & Mooney, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Jeremy A. Moulton Moulton & Massey, Conyers.
    Case Number: A99A2231

    The trial court presumably disregarded inadmissible hearsay evidence from a DFACS caseworker's notes and the court-appointed special advocate's reports when it determined that termination of the mot

  • Sullivan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel C. Chapman III, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Thomas R. McBerry, Assistant, District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2213

    Although th ndant contended that many people had a motive to rob the victim, the fact that the victim was a drug dealer was not admissible because it did not raise a reasonable inference that t

  • Ethridge v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Howell Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . F. Robert Raley, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1844

    Even though the landlord had a duty to repair the in the tenant's ceiling, the landlord was not liable for the tenant's slipping on water that dripped intermittently from that

  • In re A.S.O. & N.L.R.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence M. Korn, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Sanders B. Deen and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Reagan W. Dean and David J. Casey, Marietta, and W. Keith Barber Allen & Barber PC, Statesboro.
    Case Number: A99A2241

    The mother waived her right to a separate nonreunification hearing when she consented to the consolidation of that hearing with the action to terminate her parental r

  • Hyatt Corp. v. Cook

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Brice Ladson, Jeffrey M. Rutledge and Christopher J. Thompson Ladson & Suthers LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas G. Andrews, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1770

    Hotel was not liable for plaintiff's arrest by the off-duty police officer it hired to provide security on New Year's Eve, since it did not instruct the officer on how to fulfill his security d

  • Dixon v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Goldberg, Roswell, and Michael E. Bergin Law Office of Michael E. Bergin, Fairburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dennis R. Fortin, Decatur, Jeffrey E. Tompkins Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Patterson, Walter B. McClelland and Jo B. Gosdeck Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Lee A. Frison Jr. Ward & Frison PA, Newnan.
    Case Number: A99A2221

    The trial court's elimination of all but one of plaintiffs' claims based on its sua sponte ruling that the claims were barred by collateral estoppel and res judicata did not give the plaintiffs fair

  • In the Interest of B.R.W.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
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    Case Number: A99A2392, A99A2393

    The trial court considering parental rights termin did not have to give preference to the child's grandmother in placing the child after termin

  • In the Interest of T.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A2086, A99A2087

    Evidence that the 16-year-old mother quit high school to get a job and that the 21-year-old father was not a model citizen did not support the termination of their parental rights, since both parent