• Hill v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Greco, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, Todd H. Ashley and Jessica K. Moss, Assistant Solicitor General, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2542

    Defendant was not in custody when she voluntarily returned to the scene of an accident in the investigating officers' patro

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Jay M. Jackson, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2036

    The trial court did not err in rejecting defendant's ambivalent guilty

  • Williamson v. Coastal Physician Servs. of the S.E. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-09-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance D. Lourie, Stephen R. Chance, Joseph W. Watkins Watkins, Lourie & Roll LLP, and Richard W. Summers, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John K. Train IV Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Robert D. McCallum Jr., Elizabeth Bertschi Alston & Bird, and Michael J. Hannan III Love & Willingham, Atlanta for appellees.

    Case Number: A01A1366

    A medical staffing service was not vicariously liable for the actions of its independent contractor who treatment plaintiff's husband in the emergency room two weeks before he

  • McCall v. Henry Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis A. Thurston Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Goldstucker Nall, Miller, Owens, Hocutt & Howard, Atlanta, Rod G. Meadows and Bonnie L. Baker Meadows & Futch PC, Stockbridge, for appellee. Other party representation: Jack S. Schroder Jr., Kevin E. Grady, Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, and Mark L. Stuckey Law Offices of Charles L. Ruffin, Macon.

    Case Number: A01A0586

    A m center was not automatically immune under O.C.G.A. § 31-7-132 a from plaintiff's claim that it was negligent in granting m privileges to the surgeon who operated on plaintiff on the

  • In the Interest of V.S.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Moody, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Sanders B. Deen and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Roger L. Curry, Austell, and John P. Cheeley Cheeley & Joyner LLC, Duluth.

    Case Number: A01A0382

    The evidence did not support the termination of the putative father's parental rights where DFACS filed the termination petition only seven months after his child's birth and did not implement a reu

  • In the Interest of A.W.

    Publication Date: 2001-05-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Teresa G. Bowen, Blackshear, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Michael D. Devane, Waycross, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0358

    No clear and convincing evidence supported the termination of the mother's parental rights where the mother complied with reunification plan by maintaining a clean home for more than a year, obtain

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0285

    Defendant was not entitled to withdraw his guilty plea to statutory rape after he waived reading of the indictment, said he understood the understood the charge, informed the trial court that he wa

  • Covington v. D. L. Pimper Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott M. Ratchick and Amy K. Alcoke Hunton & Williams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark M. J. Webb and C. King Askew Brinson, Askew, Berry & Seigler, Rome, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A0398

    Covenant restricting employee from soliciting clients of his former employer with whom he had contact during the two years prior to his resignation was reaso

  • Crosby v. Kendall

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis K. Polonsky and Matthew D. Crosby, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Taylor W. Jones and Jenny E. Jensen Taylor W. Jones & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A00A2503

    Any error in the trial court's charge that an attorney acting as an escrow agent must meet the standards of the legal profession was harmless because the evidence demanded a finding that the defendi

  • Green v. Proffitt

    Publication Date: 2001-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher L. Casey J. Hue Henry PC, Athens, and Benjamin F. Easterlin IV King & Spaulding, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. McGowan and James B. Franklin Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Bunce & Brogden, Statesboro, for appellees.

    Case Number: A00A2527

    The jury's award of $200,000 for the defendant's breach of a management contract was within the range of evidence based on the testimony of plaintiffs' ex