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  • Williams v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel MacDougald III, Larry K. Butler Butler & MacDougald PC, David A. Webster, Atlanta, and Richard M. Goodman, Detroit, Mich., for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter B. McClelland Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks, Robert J. Routman MARTA Law Dep't, Atlanta, C. Wade McGuffey Jr. and Jennie R. Halenza Goodman McGuffey Austin & Lindsey LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: W. Seaborn Jones and Roger K. Whitesides Gleaton Scofield Egan & Jones, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2044

    The Georgia Employer's Liability Act does not apply to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, even though MARTA is a common ca

  • In the Interest of N.Y.

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Richard K. Murray, Dalton.
    Case Number: A00A2303

    Evidence that the father physically abused the younger child and was present in the house when the older child was sodomized by her boyfriend supported the order extending DFACS' temporary custody o

  • Demetrios v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Drew Findling, Atlanta, Cris E. Schneider, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1766

    The evidence supported a psychotherapist's convictions for drugging, hypnotizing and sexually abusing several of his female pat

  • In the Interest of U.B. and V.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carol Bacon, Pembroke, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Sherri R. McDonald Newton, Smith, Durden, Kaufold & Rice, Vidalia, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph D. McGovern, Glennville, and James L. Johnston Sr., Statesboro.
    Case Number: A00A2185

    Evidence that the children were returned to DFCS following attempted reunification on two prior occasions supported the finding that further reunification services should not be pro

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theresa A. Hood, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2022

    Trial court properly sustained the state's objection to the overbroad question that defendant asked the police officer during cross-examin

  • CFUS Properties Inc. d/b/a Gwinnett Place Mall v. Thornton

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert B. Wedge and Tracey Walker Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge, Smotherman & Smith, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael S. Webb Webb & Webb, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1998

    Trial court had discretion to disbelieve general manager's opinion that a 3-foot-wide pothole could have occurred over

  • In the Interest of A.L.B.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton K. Nelson III, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and William L. Tribble, Dublin, for appellee. Other party representation: John P. Cheeley Cheeley & Joyner LLC, Duluth.
    Case Number: A00A2015

    The mother could not show that she was harmed by the trial court's erroneous admission of child hearsay alleging child molestation against her husband, since she admitted that she allowed her husban

  • Lanier v. Burnette

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Cunningham, LaFayette, and Clifton M. Patty Jr., Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Larry J. Campbell, Chattanooga, TN, Dennis D. Watson, LaFayette, Richard W. Andrews Kinney, Kemp, Pickell, Sponcler & Joiner, Dalton, and Renzo S. Wiggins, Ringgold, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1191

    The grantor could not reduce a previously granted 50-foot easement across the defendants' land because the easement rights had vested in other gra

  • Silvers v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Evans Jr., Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Calhoun, and Pamela D. Brophy, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1900

    Evidence that defendant repeatedly punched the victim in the face, shattering the victim's nasal bone and permanently injuring her sinuses, supported defendant's convi

  • Fontaine v. Sidelines IV Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay E. Loeb Olim & Loeb LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin L. Ward, Erin S. Stone Schulten, Ward & Turner LLP, Atlanta, and Helena K. Katzenstein, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1937

    Defendants did not breach their loan agreement with plaintiff by refusing to enter into a second loan, since the loan agreement did not obligate defendants to borrow additional