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  • Coombs v. Koblasz

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore H. Lackland Lackland & Heyward, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Kathryn L. Allen, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1361

    Plaintiff's service of process on the person who collected defendant's mail and watered his plants while he was out of the country was defe

  • Helmer v. Rumarson Techs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth I. Sokolov Fine & Block, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Marion B. Stokes & Mary E. Lysak Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1466, A00A1467

    Plaintiff could not hold authorized signatories personally liable for signing a corporate check that was dishonored for insufficient

  • Smith v. Persichetti

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell L. Adkins Jr. Adkins & Whitfield, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nisbet S. Kendrick III and Caroline K. Bell Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0141

    Lessees were entitled to the return of a $125,000 payment to their lessor as the payment was not consideration for an option to purchase the property, but merely a down payment they were entitled to

  • Montero v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James G. Blanchard Jr. Fleming, Blanchard, Jackson & Durham and Paul W. David, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0681

    The officer's detaining defendant without probable cause tainted the subsequent search and seizure of a sealed box of marijuana in the truck o defendant'

  • Christian v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James Albertelli Albertelli, Israel & Burns, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, Jessica K. Moss and Lawton W. Scott, Assistant Solicitors, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0888

    The trial court properly denied defendant's motion for a continuance to review a videotape which the defendant could have reviewed several months before trial and a field sobriety evaluation sheet t

  • Sears v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick C. Kaufman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Woodbine, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1120

    The undisputed evidence showing that defendant and her 9-year-old son were the only occupants of her home, raised a rebuttable presumption that the cocaine found under defendant's bed belonged t

  • Georgia Public Serv. Comm'n v. ALLTEL Ga. Communications Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Deputy Attorney General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Thomas K. Bond, Special Assistant Attorney General, John H. MacLean, Staff Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edgar H. Sims Jr., Bruce P. Brown, Gregory S. Brow and Alan R. Jenkins Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: James S. Hurt, Marietta, David I. Adelman Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Suzanne W. Ockleberry AT&T Communications, Fred J. McCallum Jr., Atlanta, Newton M. Galloway Newton Galloway & Assocs., Griffin.
    Case Number: A00A0397

    In reviewing the Georgia Public Service Commission's order reducing rates that communications company could charge long distance providers, the superior court exceeded the scope of its authority and

  • Mullis v. Sikes

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald S. Mullis Mullis, Marshall, Lindley & Powell, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason K. Priebe Lawson & Priebe, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: J. Franklin Edenfield Spivey, Carlton & Edenfield PC, Swainsboro, and Hugh M. Worsham Jr. Kent, Williamson & Brannon, Savannah.
    Case Number: A00A0567

    Law firm's receipt of compensation for the quantum meruit value of its services barred its recovery on its attorney fee

  • Mills v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Gardner Jr., Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, Richard K. Bridgeman and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorneys, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0361

    The trial court, of its own volition, had authority to charge on ro by intimidation as a lesser included offense of armed ro

  • Atlanta Cas. Co. v. Boatwright

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kimberly K. Nagy and Frederick M. Valz III Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ronald A. Lowry, Marietta, for appellees. Other party representation: John E. Robinson and Gregory H. Blazer McLarty, Robinson & Van Voorhies LLP, Decatur, William P. Tinkler Jr., Decatur, Kristine J. Moschella, Stephen L. Cotter Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, and Karsten Bicknese, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0201

    Jury questions remain as to whether the insurer properly canceled tortfeasor's insurance contract for failure to pay insurance pre