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  • Department of Transp. v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, R.O. Lerer, Assistant Attorney General, Donna W. Howell James S.S. Howell Law Offices, Robert W. Diggs Weiner, Yancey & Dempsey and Mark Weinstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke F. Gore Gore, Lee & Curry, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0646

    Owner of condemned property could recover for his post-taking business losses because he showed that he had to relocate his chiropractic clinic after the DOT condemned most of his parkin

  • Almond v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Donnelly University of Ga. Sch. of Law, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harry N. Gordon, District Attorney, and John A. Pursley, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1631

    Defendant's inconsistent responses to the officer's questions about her improper stop in the roadway, combined with reports that the man leaning into her car sold drugs at that location, gave the of

  • Barnes v. Greater Ga. Life Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Jordan and Cedric B. Davis Adams & Jordan, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael R. Hurst Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ga. Inc., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0782

    Plaintiff was not entitled to accidental death benefits under her son's life insurance since policy excluded losses caused by the commission of a crime and the son was driving under the influence wh

  • Szurovy v. Olderman

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Charlotte K. Perrell Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel S. Reinhardt, Carmie L. McCurry and Toni A. Friess Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1919

    Plaintiff could not show that her attorney could have negotiated a better divorce settlement absent evidence of her ex-husband's financial status, the value of the marital estate or the amount of al

  • Wilborn v. Blake

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen P. Riexinger Sumner & Riexinger LLC, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1724

    The defending dermatologist breached the standard of care when he operated on the plaintiff's finger in his office after misdiagnosing a tumor during a 5-minute examin

  • Brannon v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel B. Kanes, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and William H. McClain, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1933

    Telephone records showing that the defendant called his co-defendant before each drug transa provided three of the predicate crimes that supported his RICO convi

  • Roberts v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore W. Robinson Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Jason J. Deal, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1942

    The jury could find that defendant forced himself on the 16-year-old victim even though she had no physical injuries since he took her to an unfamiliar location, gave her alcohol and continued his s

  • In the Interest of L.H., N.H. & W.H.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James K. Knight Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso and Sanders D. Deen, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: David C. Butler, Kenneth R. Croy and Reagan W. Dean, Marietta.
    Case Number: A99A1893

    Evidence that the father had not seen his children or provided a drug assessment in four years, owed more than $15,000 in child support and had no home of his own supported the termination of his p

  • Mansfield v. Colwell Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Taylor W. Jones Jones & Greer LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William T. Casey Jr. and Teri D. Alpert Hicks, Casey & Barber PC, Marietta, for appellee. Other party representation: Henry C. Tharpe Jr. Kinney, Kemp, Sponcler, Joiner & Tharpe, Dalton.
    Case Number: A99A1938

    Since plaintiffs' son chose to get into a van with an unlicensed driver who was under the influence, plaintiffs could not recover for son's fatal injuries sustained when the van plunged off an eleva

  • Cox v. Edelson

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
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    Case Number: A99A2292, A99A2293

    Trial court erred in applying the economic reality test before the stock characterization test to determine whether plaintiff's investment in defendants' corporation was a security subject to the pr