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  • Copelan v. Copelan

    Publication Date: 2003-07-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew H. Marshall McLeod, Benton, Begnaud & Marshall, Athens, for Thomas Copelan. M. Joseph Reitman Jr, E. R. Lambert Lambert & Reitman, Madison, and Charles A. Mathis Jr., Atlanta, for Uyvonna Copelan. Other party representation: Francis N. Ford Adams & Ford LLP, Eatonton.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1208; A03A1209

    No basis for recovery exists under Georgia law for tortious interference with an expected inheri

  • Durham v. Gipson

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan M. Reimer, Augusta, and Jean M. Kutner Kutner & Bloom, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl J. Surrett Surrett, Walker, Creson & Colley, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0515

    The change in custody of one child is sufficient as a matter of law to constitute a material change in circumstances as to other chi

  • Hicks v. Walker

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard D. Hobbs, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James R. Fortune Jr., Griffin, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0632

    The defendants' were not entitled to summary judgment in the plaintiff's injury suit involving a collapsed deck which allegedly failed to meet standard building

  • Waldeck v. Curtis 1000 Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Sandifer and G. Brian Raley Raley & Sandifer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert N. Dokson Ellis, Funk, Goldberg, Labovitz & Dokson, Atlanta, and Susan M. Robiner Leonarde, Street & Deinard, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0014

    A nonsolicit clause preventing the plaintiff's former employee from accepting orders from unsolicited clients was unreasonable and unenforc

  • Premier Cabinets Inc. v. Bulat

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter A. Durham Glover & Davis, Newnan, for Premier Cabinets Inc. Richard A. Gordon and Cammi R. Jones Richard A. Gordon PC, Atlanta, for Bulat.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1014; A03A1015

    The plaintiffs' slander of title claim failed where there was no evidence that the corporate defendant acted with malice in filing a materialman's lien notice against plaintiff's pro

  • Anderson v. Atlanta Comm. for the Olympic Games Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James N. Sadd Slappey & Sadd, Atlanta, Hardy Gregory Jr. Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, Jefferson C. Callier Taylor, Harp & Callier, Columbus, and Madison B. McClellan Gary, Williams, Parenti, et al., Stuart, Fla., for Anderson. Gilbert H. Deitch Bauer & Deitch PC, and Robin N. Loeb Garland, Samuel & Loeb, Atlanta, for Hawthorne. Thomas R. Mock Jr. Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, for Atlanta Comm. for the Olympic Games Inc.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0428; A03A0429

    A jury question remained as to whether Centennial Olympic Park was operated as a commercial or recreational property at the time of the Olympic Park bo

  • Gardner v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William T. Kemp III and Tara D. Dickerson Office of the Public Defender, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Katherine Diamandis, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0681

    Walker v. State, 258 Ga. App. 354 2002, is overruled to the extent it held that the state failed to prove venue in the City Court of Atlanta by failing to establish the county within the city of Atl

  • Millsap v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo E. Benton Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason J. Deal, District Attorney, and Gregory E. Radics, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1179

    The state was not required to establish that the person who drew the defendant's blood was qualified within the meaning of O.C.G.A. § 40-6-392 a 2, since the defendant was not charged wit

  • Falak v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maria Murcier-Ashley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy District Attorney, and Kristin M. Childers Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0265

    Defendant failed to show that use of the court-appointed translator violated his right to participate in his trial in a meaningfu

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher P. Twyman Hine & Niedrach PC, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryant G. Speed II, District Attorney, and Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0766

    Defendant agreed to sell drugs to an informant, set the price, met the informant at the agreed location, sent a third party to retrieve the drugs and waited with the informant for the third party's r