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  • Hughes v. Georgia Dep't of Corrections

    Publication Date: 2004-06-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: B. Daniel Dubberly III, Glennville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and Ralph W. Ellis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0427

    Monetary damages are not available to a state employee who alleges that he was wrongfully terminated under O.C.G.A. § 45-1-4-the Georgia Whistle Blower St

  • Rios v. Norsworthy

    Publication Date: 2004-03-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James S. Strawinski and Nicole W. Stout, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Gray II, Stacey K. Hydrick Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield, Michael J. Warshauer and Bradford W. Thomas Warshauer, Woodruff & Thomas PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Robert A. Freyre, Cumming.
    Case Number: A03A2411

    The third-party defendant was exercising ordinary care when he checked his rearview mirror to confirm that the defendant's vehicle was behind him before focusing his attention on an uphill curve in

  • Watson v. Williams Travelcenter Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-02-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen D. Apolinsky Eastman & Apolinsky LLP, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Pankaj K. Shere and Charles B. Marsh Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2292

    There was no evidence that the defendant gas station had actual or constructive knowledge of the spilled diesel fuel that caused the plaintiff to slip and

  • Georgia Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co. v. Croley

    Publication Date: 2003-11-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Duke R. Groover Groover & Childs, Macon, and Charles W. Byrd, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Croley Jr., Fitzgerald, Gary C. Christy and Preyesh K. Maniklal Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, for appellee. Other party representation: Terry A. Dillard Dillard, Bower & Crowley, Waycross.
    Case Number: A03A0876

    The defendant was entitled to summary judgment on its former attorney's breach of contract claim because the oral agreement between the parties had no stated dur

  • The Rental Equip. Group Inc. v. MACI LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-09-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Childs, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Charles A. Gower, Columbus, and John P. Cannon, Albany, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A1293

    The jury's award of $3.678 million in damages for promissory estoppel and/or breach of contract was within the range of damages shown by the evidence, including plaintiffs' detrimental reliance on d

  • Northwest Social and Civic Club Inc. v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Robert M. Adelson and Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, R. Roger Bhandari and Kendric E. Smith, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1037

    Appellant could not obtain a second review of its claims through a direct appeal after the Supreme Court denied its application for discretionary review on the m

  • Simmons v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynn Jr., District Attorney, and Alan A. Cook, Special Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0151

    Child witnesses are statutorily competent in criminal

  • Byrd v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Randolph Jeffery John W. Spence PC, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Bryan H. Frost, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0643

    Te fact that an expert's opinion was based on hearsay went to the weight, not the admissibility of the evi

  • Lunsford v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Horace K. Sawyer III Sawyer & Sawyer, Ringgold, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0545

    The defendant's two convi for child molestation did not merge since separate evidence supported each convi

  • Petty v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna A. Seagraves, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Winder, and Mary L. Skene, Assistant District Attorney, Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2452

    Given the evidence linking the defendant to the charged crimes, the admission of improper opinion testimony from a doctor did not justify reversal under the plain error