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  • Christensen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank K. Martin The Martin Firm, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, and George E. Lipscomb II, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0517, A00A0518

    The trial court's erroneous charge that the indictment was not evidence of Christensen's innocence was not reversible error in light of the jury charge as a

  • Ryland Group v. Daley

    Publication Date: 2000-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Carlton King Jr. King & Craft, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard J. Capriola and Jett Harris Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1656, A00A1657

    The builder's refusal to repair the plain home until they released money held in escrow under the construction contract supported the award of bad faith attorneys' fees to plain

  • In the Interest of M.D.

    Publication Date: 2000-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek M. Wright The Wright Law Firm PC, Atlanta, 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, Robert E. Hall Rubin, Winter, Rapoport & Hall, Atlanta, and Sanders B. Deen, Assistant Attorney General, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1367

    Regardless of whether the mother's mental illness was likely to continue, her failure to cooperate with DFACS until six months after the termination petition was filed and her failure to support or

  • Jakel v. Fountainhead Dev. Corp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard C. Bellows, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark W. Alexander Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1239

    The contract entered into by plaintiff and subdivision developer was not an option contract, since it did not bind the developer to sell the lots to plaintiff, describe the property with particulari

  • In the Interest of S.H.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Bashuk Hassett, Cohen, Goldstein & Port, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, and William R. Jenkins Jenkins & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1064

    Father's extensive criminal history and his failure to comply with a reunification plan supported termination of his parental r

  • Saltis v. Daimler Benz North El America N.O. Inc. d/b/a AD Tranz Atlanta Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy R. Brennan Eidson & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sewell K. Loggins and J. Marcus Howard Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0482, A00A0483

    As a common carrier of airport passengers, the defendant had a duty to give more than a general warning that the doors of its airport shuttle train would not open automatically after they had starte

  • Perrin v. Stansell

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Rothman Daniels & Rothman PC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian S. Carney Timmons, Haggard & Carney, Athens, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0736

    The grandparent visitation provisions set forth in O.C.G.A. § 19-7-3 did not apply to maternal grandmother's petition for unsupervised visits with her grandchild since the paternal grandmother had t

  • Lee v. American Cent. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Slocumb, Macon, Wilton D. Harrington and John P. Harrington Smith & Harrington, Eastman, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert M. Finlayson II and Edward C. Bresee Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0728

    If a mortgagor is not an insured under his business's fire insurance policy, then the insurer has no subrogation rights against the mortgagor with regard to the money it paid to the mort

  • Guertin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth T. Israel, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Assistant District Attorney, DeKalb, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0821

    Defense counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to admissible testimony regarding the child victim's o

  • Department of Transp. v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, R.O. Lerer, Assistant Attorney General, Donna W. Howell James S.S. Howell Law Offices, Robert W. Diggs Weiner, Yancey & Dempsey and Mark Weinstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke F. Gore Gore, Lee & Curry, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0646

    Owner of condemned property could recover for his post-taking business losses because he showed that he had to relocate his chiropractic clinic after the DOT condemned most of his parkin