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  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth. v. Bridges

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Routman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven E. Marcus Marcus & Jones, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Bd. Workers Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A05A1274

    The employer failed to comply with the statutory requirements of the Workers' Compensation Act when it reduced and then terminated its employee's temporary total disability ben

  • Dunson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Burns Office of the Circuit Pub. Defender, and Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Margaret E. Heap, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1122

    The trial court did not err in allowing the investigating detective to remain in the courtroom during the trial and before he testified, because the prosecutor requested that he be present to assis

  • Barnett v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-09-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. V. Booker, Washington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, and William P. Doupe', Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1385

    The trial court properly admitted the cocaine found in a popcorn bag on the floorboard of the defendant's truck, since a drug dog alerted to the truck prior to the conclusion of a valid traffic stop

  • Fredericks v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory T. Talley, Wade H. Coleman and Edward F. Preston Coleman, Talley, Newbern, Kurrie, Preston & Holland, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . G. G. Kunes Jr., Tifton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A0872

    The record did not support the defendants' claim that the plaintiff's expert was not credible, since he testified with ease, despite having filed an insurance claim alleging problems with panic diso

  • United Bank v. West Central Ga. Bank

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David B. Dunaway, Thomaston, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan W. Connell, Thomaston, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1133

    The typed in maturity date on a deed to secure debt, along with the incorporation by reference of the note containing the same maturity date, sufficiently complied with O.C.G.A. § 44-14-80 a 1's req

  • Whimsical Expressions Inc. v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jefferson B. Slagle and John D. Alexander Thompson & Slagle PC, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce H. Beerman Burr & Foreman LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1232

    A non-compete clause in an employment contract, which prevented a pai rom engaging in sales in the decorative or faux painting industry was overbroad and unreasonable, since it prevented the pa

  • Lott v. Hatcher

    Publication Date: 2005-09-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Killian Killian & Boyd PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Tracie G. Smith Julie D. Majer Law Office, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1256

    The defendant's conclusory allegations about the legal effect of the parties' actions leading up to a vehicular collision were not judicial admis

  • Kolev v. Home Depot USA Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-08-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Lawrence Jewett Jr. Clark & Goldner PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Warner S. Fox Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Adam L. Appel Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Neil L. Wilcove Freeman, Mathis & Gray LLP, and Anandhi S. Rajan Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1040

    The recent decision in Gonzalez v. Dept. of Transp., 279 Ga. 230 2005, controlled the issue of the plaintiffs' standing as nonresident aliens in their suit to recover for their son's death at a home

  • Thammawaro v. The Cambodian Buddhist Society Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Antonio L. Thomas Antonio L. Thomas & Assocs., and David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jennifer D. Odom and John J. Richard Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0933

    The issue of whether the corporation, which owned and operated a Buddhist temple could remove a monk from its property was secular in n

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-08-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leopold F. Joh, Assistant Pub. Defender, Greenville, and Gerald P. Word Johnson, Word & Simmons, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, Thelma E. Fry Coweta Judicial Circuit, LaGrange, and Robert N. Peterkin, Assistant District Attorney, Greenville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1222

    The record supported the trial court's ruling that the defendant freely and voluntarily pled guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter in exchange for the state dropping three other charged off