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  • Hanse v. Phillips

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul A. Morgan, Rory K. Starkey and Robert D. Ware County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Matthew T. Allen, Atlanta, David A. Sleppy, Edward E. Strain III and Lisa J. Bucko Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A0955

    A police officer was entitled to official immunity in the plaintiffs' wrongful death and injury suit arising out of a high-speed chase, because the decision to initiate and continue the chase was di

  • Common Cause/Ga. v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emmet J. Bondurant, Sarah M. Shalf and Gordon L. Hamrick IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Lemuel H. Ward City Attorney's Office, Michael V. Coleman, Corliss S. Lawson and Paul T. Kim Lord, Bissell & Brook LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Susan M. Pruett Georgia Mun. Assoc., and James F. Grubiak, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1991

    City taxpayers cannot bring a derivative action against the s former mayor on behalf of the

  • Smith v. Chatham County

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Carmichael and Rachel Humphrey Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Emily E. Garrard and R. Jonathan Hart, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1133

    The county did not waive its official immunity under O.C.G.A. § 33-24-51 b by instituting a self-insurance fund to pay out injury claims for which it assumed liab

  • Reese v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Wright, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Tuwanda R. Williams, Assistant City Attorney, and Chiquita T. Johnson City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0896

    A police officer was officially immune from liability arising out of his arrest of the plaintiff for criminal trespass where the officer acted within his discretion and scope of auth

  • Harvey v. Nichols

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth J. Lander McNally, Edwards, Bailey & Lander, and Donald W. Osborne, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edward D. Tolley, Robert C. Irwin III Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, and William T. Craig, Covington, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0568

    The jail detention officers' failure to regularly monitor a teenager in a holding cell was not the proximate cause of the teenager's su

  • Anderson v. Cobb

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian M. House, Ringgold, and W. Jack Benson Jr. Crutchfield, Benson, Pope & House, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: James W. Moffitt, LaFayette, and David W. Noblit Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan PLLC, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1304

    A detective had official immunity from suit for malicious prosecution where two assistant district attorneys advised her that she had probable cause to arrest the plaintiff for simple battery and th

  • In the Interest of J. C.

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold B. Baker, Valdosta, and Mark E. Mitchell, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney and Justo C. Cabral III, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1323

    The juvenile court violated the juvenile's right against self-incrimination and her right of confrontation when it failed to warn her that anything she said could be used against nd did not giv

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2404

    A co-conspirator's taped telephone conversations that took place within 1 hours of the crime were admissible, even though the statements related to past facts, since the state presented independent

  • Woodruff v. Woodruff

    Publication Date: 2000-06-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip T. Raymond III and Susan D. Raymond Shaffer, Raymond & Dalton, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry W. Brimberry Brimberry, Kaplan & Brimberry PC, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0744

    Trial court abused its discretion in ruling that father could have no contact with his children based on inadmissible hearsay accusations in his divorce action that he molested

  • In the Interest of C.J.

    Publication Date: 2012-08-06
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    Date Filed: 2012-08-02
    Court: Tx. App. Dist. 5
    Judge: Elizabeth Lang-miers Justice
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    Case Number: 05-11-00697-CV

    AFFIRM; Opinion Filed August 2, 2012 OPINION Before Justices Morris, Richter, and Lang-Miers Opinion By Justice Lang-Miers We deny appellant's motion for rehearing