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  • Vintson v. Lichtenberg

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Trotter III, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph H. Huff Kilpatrick & Cody, Augusta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0478

    A contractor's affidavit stating that all amounts due had been paid barred plaintiff's claim for additional ch

  • Quadron Software Int'l Corp. v. Plotseneder

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Joseph C. Sharp and Nicole L. Day Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric P. Sabiston Sabiston & Smith, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0167

    Defendants were entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim for specific performance of a development agreement since plaintiff did not show that he would be irreparably injured if the agreem

  • Garden Hills Civic Ass'n v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David D. Blum City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Charles N. Pursley Jr. Pursley, Howell, Lowery & Meeks, Carl E. Westmoreland Jr., John W. Harbin and Simon H. Bloom Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A0702

    Homeowners lacked standing to challenge a re-zoning decision because they failed to demonstrate special da

  • Stevens v. Georgia Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julius A. Powell Jr. Mullis, Marshall, Lindley & Powell, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander and Christopher B. Jarrard Jones, Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Warren C. Grice, Macon.
    Case Number: A02A0397

    The DOT's failure to install an additional warning sign at an intersection controlled by a red light was not the proximate cause of the decedent's

  • Garland v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas W. McDonald Jr. McDonald & Cody Law Offices, Cornelia, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor, and Jeffrey P. Kwiatkowski, Assistant Solicitor, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0684

    The arresting officer's understatement of the legal blood alcohol limit while administering an alco-sensor test did not change the substance of the informed consent wa

  • Pitts v. City of Rome

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Miles L. Gammage Mundy & Gammage PC, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kristy L. Cordle Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, for appellees. Other party representation Lee Southwell State Bd. of Workers' Comp., Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A0031

    Plaintiff failed to prove that her deceased husband's stroke was attributable to his emplo

  • Ridley v. Monroe

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl A. Veline Jr., Warner Robins, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Daniel III and Richard A. Epps Jr. Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0243

    Plaintiff's suit against her co-worker was barred by the exclusive remedy provision of Georgia's Workers' Compensation Act because plaintiff alleged she was injured in the course of her employment,

  • Burt & Burt, & Rentz Retirement Pension Trust v. Dougherty County Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hilliard P. Burt Burt & Burt PA, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank E. Jenkins III Jenkins & Nelson, Cartersville, and William S. Lee Lee & Lee, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0325

    Counties may rely on the State Revenue Commissioner's proposed assessment of utility property in issuing final assessments for real and personal property interests held by utility comp

  • Spooner v. City of Camilla

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Margeson III, Albany, and W. P. Traylor III Yearout, Myers & Traylor, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.
    for defendant: William C. Sanders Alexander & Vann, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0208; A02A0209

    A 13-year-old boy who drowned in a water-filled pit assumed the risk because he chose to jump in, even though he knew the pit was filled with water and that he could not

  • Parrott v. Fairmont Dev. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Nash Jr., Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Other party representation: Jeffrey S. Vaughan Royal & Vaughn, Savannah.
    Case Number: A02A0661

    The plaintiff failed to establish the existence of a prescriptive easement under O.C.G.A. § 44-