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  • Thrasher v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell W. Pope Chapman & Pope, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook, District Attorney, and Brian M. Deutsch, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0814

    Defendant's prior conviction for selling co was admissible to rebut his testimony denying any connection with co

  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0414

    The court properly allowed the state to use leading questions to examine its witness who refused to cooperate at

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2000-06-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Kevin N. Levitas, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Willace D. Magee, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0309

    Trial court should have addressed whether the defendant had standing to challenge the seizure of evidence before granting his motion to sup

  • Clark v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert Shafer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, and Deborah R. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2255

    The fact that the informant met with the officer, volunteered to set up the drug buy, specifically described defendant, defen truck and the location of the sell, and provided police with defe

  • Simmons Co. v. Deutsche Fin. Servs. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gus H. Small Jr. and David A. Geiger Small, White & Marani PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James A. Orr and Rebecca L. Burnaugh Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2226

    Although the Federal Arbitration Act prohibits ls from interlocutory orders compelling arbitration, in this case the FAA's rules did not pre-empt Georgia's procedural rule allowing a preliminar

  • Abend v. Klaudt

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lori G. Baer and Candice Stone Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David A. Sleppy and Dennis T. Cathey Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, for appellees. Other party representation: Robert G. Tanner and Johnathan T. Krawcheck Long, Weinberg, Ansley & Wheeler, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A1862

    The 5-year statute of repose in O.C.G.A. § 9-3-71 b does not bar a foreign object medical malpractice action that is timely filed within the 1-year limitation period for that type of

  • Taylor v. Thompkins

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald B. Warren Whitehurst, Cohen & Blackburn, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William C. Sanders Alexander & Vann, Thomasville, for appellees. Other party representation: George C. Floyd, Bainbridge, Henry P. Scott Young, Thagard, Hoffman, Scott & Smith, Valdosta.
    Case Number: A00A0637

    Any inference that defendant owned the unbranded cow which plaintiff struck in the road disappeared when defendant showed that all of his cows are branded, none of them were missing and no gap exist

  • Ethridge v. Davis

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wendell K. Howell Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . F. Robert Raley, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1844

    Even though the landlord had a duty to repair the in the tenant's ceiling, the landlord was not liable for the tenant's slipping on water that dripped intermittently from that

  • Tudor v. Ford

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Reeves and Terrell W. Benton III Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lonzy F. Edwards Edwards & Youmas, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1646

    The diabetic plaintiff's experts could not reasonably conclude that his leg infection was related to his stepping on a nail at the defendant's

  • Edwards v. Georgia Dep't of Children & Youth Servs.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph W. Watkins, Lance D. Lourie Watkins, Lourie & Roll LLP, Atlanta, William P. Langdale Jr. and William P. Langdale III Langdale, Vallotton, Linahan, Threlkeld & Wetherington, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ziva P. Bruckner, Paul H. Dunbar III Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia Guilday, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A2218

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that state employees are not immune from liability resulting from their decisions as to what type of emergency treatment to provide incarcer