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  • Slone v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Slone and Sonja Ebron, St. Petersburg, Fla., proceeded pro se. Ned Blumenthal, Laura S. Morris Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, Martin C. Jones, Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, and William S. Dominy, Decatur, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A1089; A07A1406; A07A2274

    The trial court erred in awarding attorneys' fees under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 b in the absence of evidentiary he

  • Hawkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sammy J. Hawkins, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Jeffrey A. Johnson Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1232

    Campus policemen of the state university system have the power to make arrests for offenses committed upon any public or private property within 500 yards of any property under the jurisdiction of t

  • Hawkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sammy J. Hawkins, Jasper, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, and Jeffrey A. Johnson Solicitor General's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1232

    Campus policemen of the state university system have the power to make arrests for offenses committed upon any public or private property within 500 yards of any property under the jurisdiction of t

  • McPetrie v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy D. Berry, Marietta, for McPetrie. James S. Anderson Clarke & Anderson PC, Atlanta, for Paschal. Debra H. Bernes and Nancy I. Jordan, Marietta, for Raines. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amy H. McChesney and C. Lance Cross, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1238; A03A1239; A03A1240

    Defendants had no legal authority to detain and bind the victim who allegedly stole items from their busin

  • Smith v. Local Union 1863, Int'l Longshoremen's Assoc. of Clerks and Checkers

    Publication Date: 2003-03-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter D. Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl G. Fulp III Fulp & Holt, Valdosta, and Donald E. Pinaud Jr. Kattman & Pinaud, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A2397

    The trial court erred in dismissing the plaintiff's suit under the Georgia Equal Employment for Persons With Disabilities Code where the allegations in his complaint virtually tracked parts of the

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Michael Maloof and Maurice G. Kenner, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Keith E. Adams and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0656

    Given evidence of informant's reliability, police officer's failure to tell magistrate that informant had a criminal history and pending criminal charges was not fatal to magistrate's finding of pro

  • In re Estate of Thomas Edward Davis

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Parker and Lisa J. Bucko Savell & Williams LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Ebel, F.T. Davis Jr. Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, and Heather C. Smith Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Miami, Fla., for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1821

    Probate court had grounds to remove executor of estate because he destroyed pornographic material in decedent's home and on his computer that was relevant to a child molestation suit pending against