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  • Hafez v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A07A2065

    The trial court properly allowed a licensed social worker to testify that she was treating the victim for ' "exhibiting intrusive thoughts and memories of abuse that are triggered by curren

  • Lyon v. Schramm

    Publication Date: 2008-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A07A2237

    The 5-year statute of repose did not bar the plaintiff's suit against three doctors, who allegedly repeatedly failed to warn her of the risk of developing an overwhelming post-splenectomy infect

  • Sutton v. Justiss

    Publication Date: 2008-04-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A07A1835

    The conflict of evidence as to whether cars were parked in such a manner as to impede the defendant's view of the plaintiff's then 2-year-old son, whom he struck with his vehicle after the

  • Mason v. Home Depot U.S.A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S07A1486

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-67.1 f of Georgia Tort Reform Act of 2005 "TRA" is not unconstitutional as a delegation of legislative authority and the denial of due pr

  • Attaway v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna A. Seagraves, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Gainesville, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, for appellee .
    Case Number: A07A0880

    The trial court properly sentenced the defendant for felony statutory rape based on evidence showed that he had sexual intercourse with the victim, who was not his spouse, when he was 32 years old

  • Ewing v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. Lawson & Thornton PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Amber A. Robinson and Cleora S. Anderson City of Atlanta Law Dept., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1988

    The trial court erred in construing the pleadings most favorably to the city and the city's chief of police in dismissing a police lieutenant's petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking to require th

  • Putzel Elec. Contractors Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Napier Murphy and William R. Shelton Jr. Murphy & Sibley PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry S. Barnett, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell Board of Workers' Compensation, and Mark J. Goodman Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1039

    The employee's workers' compensation claim for work-related asbestosis was timely filed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 34-9-281, since he filed it within one year of first learning of the causal connection

  • Valle v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer S. Hanson Law Office of Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Matthew T. McNally and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0906

    The defendant lacked standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which he was a passenger because he had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a garbage bag he placed in the

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony J. Morgese, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Susan K. Treadaway, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2426

    The trial court did not err in refusing to accept the jury's first verdict of guilty with reasonable doubt as an acquittal and in sending the jury out for further delibera

  • Hutchens v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Allen D. Morris and Wallace W. Rogers Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1451

    The jury was authorized to find that the victim's lack of resistance was induced by fear, since the victim testified that she was afraid of the defendant as the result of his prior molestation o