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  • Bianco v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-09-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, and Rand J. Csehy, Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1134

    The officer was entitled to seize the baggy of methamphetamine in defendant's pocket under the plain feel doc

  • Devore v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Summers Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michele A. Ritz and Tommy T. Holland Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1383

    The 2000 amendments to O.C.G.A. § 46-7-12 altered evidentiary rules, not substantive rights, regarding the use of approved forms to evidence a motor carrier's insurance for purposes of pursuing a di

  • Ballard v. Burnham

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert H. Benefield Jr. Law Offices of Robert H. Benefield Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederick A. Johnson, Duluth, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0394

    Plaintiff could not recover for the injuries she sustained in a fall at her son-in-law's home because she had equal knowledge of the hazard in que

  • Department of Transp. v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Franklin Edenfield Spivey, Carlton & Edenfield PC, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and R. O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Brown Brown & Rountree, Statesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1106

    Evidence of diminished value to the remaining land supported the award of $380,000 as compensation for the condemned land and consequential da

  • Rouse v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall A. Schmidt, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Jennifer L. Parker Chatham County District Attorney's Office, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1495

    Defendant's mandatory DUI fine was not subject to suspension following the revoc of his prob

  • Weaver v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David R. Trippe Hudson & King, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Cleveland, and Gerald R. Ryan Jr., Hiawassee, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1236

    Defendant pursued his wife with a shotgun after threatening to kill her and her

  • Classic City Bonding Co. v. Barnes, Governor, State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John J. McArthur McArthur & McArthur PS, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Phillip C. Griffeth, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1350

    Strict compliance with the 10-day notice provision set forth in O.C.G.A. § 17-6-71 is not a condition precedent to forfeiture of an appearance

  • Hunter v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard A. Newton and Leo W. Clifton Sr. Richard A. Newton PC, Dunwoody, for appellant.
    for defendant: . W. Allen Separk and R. Stacy Hylton, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0923

    The probate court's award of a year's support to the surv spouse clearly exceeded the amount necessary to support and maintain her for 12 months at her prior standard of l

  • Tinger v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelle L. Gopman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Christopher M. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1347

    The trial court did not reversibly err in giving a reasonable doubt charge that the Supreme Court disapproved of in Coleman v. State, 271 Ga. 800 1999, since the trial court gave the charge before r

  • Ponder v. Brooks

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lonzy F. Edwards Edwards & Youmas, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas C. Alexander and Christopher B. Jarrard Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1638

    The distra doctrine does not apply where a plaintiff has actual knowledge of the hazard before the alleged distra