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  • Camp v. Coweta County

    Publication Date: 2006-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald C. Evans Jr., Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Richard V. Merritt, Assistant Attorney General, Stephen C. Collier, H. Lane Young II and Brenda Godfrey Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2289

    Mailing a copy of a complaint to the Attorney General is not necessary to perfect service under the Georgia Tort Claim

  • In the Interest of T. W.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Reese H. Davis, Americus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cecelia M. Cooper, District Attorney, and Kameyan L. Bryant, Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1097

    An adjudication of delinquency was reversed because the state failed to prove

  • In the Interest of C. C.

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Blanton C. Lingold, Milledgeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Milledgeville, and Joseph M. McKinnon District Attorney's Office, Eatonton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1491

    No evidence showed that the juvenile had joint constructive possession of purported marijuana found in the truck in which he was r

  • State v. Giddens

    Publication Date: 2006-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Waycross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lon P. Kemeness, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1178

    The court abused its discretion in dismissing the defendant's indictment where no evidence showed that the state violated his constitutional right to a speedy

  • Hadden v. ARE Properties LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Gorby Gorby, Reeves & Peters, Atlanta, and Gary A. Bacon, Kingsland, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Wilson R. Smith Smith & Jenkins, Vidalia, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0179

    The plaintiff's expert's affidavit was inadmissible, since expert testimony was not required to determine the forseeability of a shooting on the defendant hunting club's pro

  • Cieplinski v. Caldwell Elec. Contractors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Steel Matthews & Steel, Atlanta, and Douglas P. McManamy, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David F. Root, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, John C. Cheshire Carr, Tabb, Pope & Freeman LLP, Atlanta, Mark W. Wortham Hicks, Casey, Barber PC, Marietta, and J. Douglas Stewart Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for appellees. Other party representation: Brian M. Leepson Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0596

    The intervening negligence of the plaintiff's employer was the sole proximate cause of his injury and broke any legally sufficient causal connection between the third-party tortfeasor defendants' al

  • Morrell v. Wellstar Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-07-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan A. Vroon, John W. Crongeyer Vroon & Crongeyer LLP, Atlanta, Dennis T. Cathey, Edward E. Strain III and David A. Sleppy Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John H. Parker Jr., Leo E. Reichert, Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Nisbet S. Kendrick III Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Atlanta, and Kenneth R. Bernard Jr., Douglasville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0394

    The fact that the defendants charged the plaintiffs higher rates than they charged for medical care covered by insurance and Medicare/Medicaid benefits did not establish a violation of Uniform Decep

  • Amstead v. McFarland

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert P. McFarland McFarland & Assocs., and Randall A. Meincke, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0001

    Attorney was entitled to of only the father's portion of $325K ement attorney procured for the wrongful death of the father and the mother's son, since the mother withdrew from the suit prior t

  • Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co. v. Daniels

    Publication Date: 2006-06-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marvin W. McGahee Brennan & Wasden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Raymond S. Gordon Jr. and W. Jefferson Hires Gordon & Hires, Jesup, for appellees. Other party representation: William B. Johnson, Jesup, Clyde M. Urquhart, James E. Stein, St. Marys, William M. McHugh Jr. and James B. Durham Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A06A0337

    The "rentee" exclusion to the commercial lines excess insurance policy at issue did not apply to the driver of a fatal 1-vehicle accident, since she drove the rental car permissibly and without payi

  • King v. Lusk

    Publication Date: 2006-06-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Johnny R. Dennis, Summerville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William P. Slack, LaFayette, and Christopher A. Townley, Rossville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0375

    Competent evidence presumably supported the trial court's conclusion that the appellee is the legal father of the boy at issue, despite a DNA test showing the probability of appellant's paternity wa