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  • Capote v. Ray

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger A. Baruch Center for Prisoners' Legal Assistance, Alpharetta, and James C. Bonner Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, and Sharon D. Stokes, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1179

    The defendant's appeal of the dismissal of his habeas petition was not subject to dismissal under Fullwood v. Sivley, 271 Ga. 248 1999, even though he failed to file an application for a certificate

  • Williams v. Young

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Klosik Jr., Jason R. Manton and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik, Daugherty & Swank, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, and Charles K. Wainright II, Albany, for appellees. Other party representation: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, and Antoinette D. Johnson, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1393

    The plaintiff filed suit more than two years after the defendant allegedly misdiagnosed her medical cond

  • Bickford v. Yancey Dev. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Calhoun and Shilpa S. Masih Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Fr., Coleen D. Hosack Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, John K. Moore Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Sam P. Hensley Jr., Marietta, and Jeffrey H. Schneider Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Zaleon PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2208

    A covenant requiring 2-acre lots expired by law 20 years after it was ad

  • Urrutia v. Jewell

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. McFarland McFarland & Assocs., Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas R. Daum, Snellville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0856

    The trial court did not err in allowing evidence of defendant's four prior embezzlement convictions for impeachment pur

  • Canal Ins. Co. v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank R. McKay Sartain, McKay & Crowell, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard W. Hendrix and Michael A. Sullivan Finch, McCranie, Brown, Hendrix & Sullivan, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1373

    A worker's compensation insurer could not prove that the injured employee was fully and completely compensated when he settled his third-party tort action because the insurer did not intervene in th

  • Department of Transp. v. Dupree

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. deGolian, William C. Lanham and Clark H. McGehee Johnson & Ward, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1573

    The plaintiffs raised the issue of engineering malpractice when they claimed that the DOT's failure to include traffic control devices at a fatal intersection violated generally accepted engineering

  • Young v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellee. Neutral Amicus Representation: Antoinette D. Johnson Smolar & Assocs., Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, David A. Cook, William T. Clark, Atlanta, Temple Sellers, Decatur, and Marilyn J. Allen, Marietta.
    Case Number: S01G0589

    The 2-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice claims does not provide for the commencement of the limitation period upon the termination of a health care provider's treatment of a p

  • Carroll v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0354

    The defendant's inquiry as to how he would be appointed a lawyer was not an unambiguous request for counsel requiring the cessation of custodial questi

  • Young v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellee. Neutral Amicus Representation: Antoinette D. Johnson Smolar & Assocs., Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, David A. Cook, William T. Clark, Atlanta, Temple Sellers, Decatur, and Marilyn J. Allen, Marietta.
    Case Number: S01G0589

    The 2-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice claims does not provide for the commencement of the limitation period upon the termination of a health care provider's treatment of a p

  • Fort v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey W. Cofer, Jonesboro, for Fort. Patricia F. Angeli, Jonesboro, for Peck. Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General,, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S01A1268; S01A1269

    The record failed to support defendant's contention that a detective improperly placed his bad character into evidence by referencing a mu