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  • In the Interest of N.Q.

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Taylor Harry, Pavilack & Assocs., Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Anne R. Moore, Statesboro.
    Case Number: A02A1822

    The mother's failure to comply with any DFACS case plan and her insistence that DFACS lacked authority to interfere with her r to raise her children supported the termination of her parental r

  • Gibbs v. Loomis, Fargo & Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert N. Katz Hewitt, Katz, Stepp & Wright, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lynn M. Roberson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1755

    Defendants had probable cause to believe that the plaintiff was guilty of

  • Whitehead v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker L. Chandler, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Charles E. Rooks, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1576

    The officers' corroboration of the informant's tip through surveillance gave them reasonable suspicion to believe that defendant was engaged in criminal activity before they stopped his ve

  • In the Interest of C. B.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edythe S. Whitaker, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: Ann K. Miller Harrison & Harrison, McDonough, and James E. Watkins, Stockbridge.
    Case Number: A02A1570

    Evidence that the father pled guilty to sexually molesting his child supported the termination of his parental r

  • Morrow v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Brown Jr., McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Rutherford, Charles A. Spahos, Solicitors General, and Lydia M. Ferguson, Assistant Solicitor General, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1091

    A 911 call that two young intoxicated males were cursing and throwing things off the shelf at a grocery store provided reasonable suspicion to the responding officer to perform an investigative stop

  • 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

  • Snipes v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-10-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd J. Matthews, Hampton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Sandra A. Graves, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1614

    The trial court properly refused to charge on the lesser included offense of criminal trespass because there was no evidence of the amount of damage to the door of the house that defendant attempted

  • Nicholson v. Windham

    Publication Date: 2002-10-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Millard C. Farmer Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emory L. Palmer, Christine L. Mast, H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, G. Robert Oliver and Anne M. Zavala-Moushey Oliver, Duckworth, Sparger & Winkle PC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0948

    A jury issue remained as to whether the individual defendants tortiously interfered with the plaintiff's employment contract by soliciting her to engage in criminal activity and causing her terminat

  • Sun v. Mercedes Benz Credit Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. McKnight Jr. Freed & Bermen PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Carmichael and Shawn M. Winterich Stokes, Lazarus & Carmichael, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1822

    A liquidated damages provision obligating the lessee to pay a monthly lease payment in addition to all of the lease payments due and owing under the lease at the time of the lessee's default, was an

  • In the Interest of M. V.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Richard K. Murray, Dalton, for appellee. Other party representation: Bruce A. Kling and Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton.
    Case Number: A01A1790

    The mother's failure to protect her infant from a deadly beating supported the termination of her parental rights to her surviving chi