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  • In the Interest of K.J.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Caroline A. Cormack and Billy C. Mathis Jr. Mathis Law Offices, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, and Gregory W. Edwards, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0936

    The trial court prematurely transferred the juvenile's case to superior court based on inconclusive evidence as to whether the juvenile should be committed to a mental instit

  • In the Interest of L.S.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher Shepherd, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Tony D. Coy, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0599

    T tion of father's parental rights was appropriate since he had not seen his child for over two years, had not provided child support, and was serving a 5-year jail sentence at the time of the

  • Bazemore v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monte K. Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, Robert R. McNeill and Thomas E. Csider, Assistant Solicitors, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0071

    DUI defendant was entitled to discover those records of the state forensic chemist that related to the actual test of his

  • Hudson v. J.H. Harvey Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbie L. Solomon, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl G. Fulp III, Robert M. Clyatt and Sandra K. Sanders Clyatt, Clyatt, Wallace & DeVaughn, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0664

    Defendant was entitled to summary judgment because plaintiff did not show why she slipped when she entered defendant's

  • O'Kelley v. Hall County Bd. of Educ.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Perry M. Sartain, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alfred A. Quillian Jr. Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Philip J. Botwinik Hazelton & Sullivan, Todd K. Maziar, Atlanta, and Alex B. Wallach George, Bartles & Wallach, Forest Park.
    Case Number: A99A2096

    The administrative law judge correctly calculated the employee's average weekly wage under the doctrine of concurrent similar employment, since the employee had worked 13 weeks at her full-time job

  • Johnson v. Atlanta Housing Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen F. Harris Gill, Peterson & Harris PC and James N. Sadd Slappey & Sadd, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Seaborn Jones, Elizabeth Knight and Roger K. Whitesides Gleaton, Scofield, Egan & Jones, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1898

    Landlord was not liable for tenant's being shot while sitting on a bench outside his apartment building, because tenant was aware of the danger of sitting on that bench at night and he failed to pay

  • Wiley v. Liberty Southern Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Crawford and Thomas E. Greer Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2335

    The company that managed the hotel where plaintiff slipped and fell down the stairs was not entitled to summary judgment because there was evidence that a wet spot at the top of the stairs was not

  • Russell v. Superior K-9 Serv. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen V. Kern Kitchens, Kelley & Gaynes PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry D. Fellows Jr. Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Glenn A. Loewenthal Loewenthal & Jackson LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2442

    Evidence that the plaintiff volunteered to let her employer's guard dog out of his pen raised a jury question as to whether she assumed the risk that the dog would attac

  • Day v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Stewart, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2344

    Defendant was not entitled to a new trial, even though the trial court charged the entire statute on possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, since the court limited the jury's del

  • Young v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Stewart, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and James L. Wright III, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2474, A99A2475

    Officer's testimony that cocaine discovered under seat of defendants' car was next to their gun and lack of evidence that anyone else had us car permitt inference that defendants posses