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  • Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. v. City of Atlanta.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Bassett Jr., Jennifer N. Stephens King & Spalding, Tony G. Powers Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, William H. McLean IV City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Nicholas C. Moraitakis Mills, Moraitakis & Kushel, Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr. Sistrunk & Assocs., Ernest L. Greer Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: David J. Bailey Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Timothy A. Bumann Budd, Larner, Gross, Rosenbaum, Greenbert, R. Clay Porter, Alisa W. Terry Dennis, Corry, Porter & Gray, James M. Poe Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, and Melissa M. Bumann, Yorkville, Ill.
    Case Number: A01A2521

    O.C.G.A. § 16-11-184 expressly pre-empts the field of firearms regul

  • Askew v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney E. Davis, Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Perry, and Eugene Felton Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1805

    The defendant was not entitled to a new on the basis of his accomplice's recantation of his testimony since there was no evidence that the accomplice was convicted of perjury or that hi

  • Southern Gen. Ins. Co. v. Crews

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryant H. Bower Jr. and Terry A. Dillard Dillard, Bower & Crowley, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert P. Killian Lissner, Killian, Cunningham & Boyd, William T. Ligon Jr., Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, and Stanley Karsman Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1928

    An insurer could not bring an interpleader action based on the fact that two of its insureds were involved in an accident and there was a dispute as to which insured was negl

  • Head v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Whitman, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Wesley C. Ross District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1628

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion to disqualify the District Attorney and his entire staff based on the chief inves r's personal relationship with the victim since the inve

  • Hall v. Bailey

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sampson Oliver Jr. Sampson Oliver & Assocs., Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert R. Sacks, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2442

    Evidence that decedent's father had little contact with him for 17 years supported the trial court's award of 95 percent of the decedent's wrongful death settlement proceeds to his m

  • Finlon v. W & J Factors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry A. Daniels Daniels & Taylor, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. David Johnston and Michael S. Rosenthal Wagner, Johnston & Rosenthal, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2334

    The evidence did not support the trial court's conclusion that plaintiff properly served defendant through his girlfriend pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 9-11-4 e 7, since the return of service did not state

  • Benedict v. Snead

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald L. Cook McGee & Oxford, and Dennis J. Webb Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1832

    Res judicata barred plaintiff's amended complaint asserting a claim for return of his earnest money because he was attempting to re-litigate a claim between the parties concerning the same subject m

  • Cody v. Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corp.

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur F. Millard, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James F. Stovall III King, Taylor & Stovall PC, Tucker, and Charles B. Walters Jr. Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1846

    The plaintiff unreasonably delayed transmission of the appellate record by filing an unsupported affidavit of indigence, failing to appear at the hearing to address her indigence claim and waiting

  • Gould v. Patterson

    Publication Date: 2002-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Satcher Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, John C. Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Eddie Snelling Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Stephen F. Dermer Dermer, Brown, Rogers & O'Neill, Alpharetta.
    Case Number: A01A1970

    A modification of plaintiff's probation requiring sex offender treatment at his expense did not increase his sentence in violation of the double jeopardy prohibition because the required treatment w

  • Wright v. City of Cochran

    Publication Date: 2002-02-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Venable David Venable & Assocs., Hawkinsville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rita J. Llop, Special Assistant Attorney General, Eastman, and Melvyn J. Williams, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1859

    Plaintiff's nuisance claim against the city arising out of his being shot by a co-worker failed because there was no evidence of a prior incident involving the co-worker which would have put the cit