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  • Hunt v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Franklin N. Biggins and Bedelia C. Hargrove Law Offices of Franklin N. Biggins, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Yeun Soo Jo, Assistant City Attorney, for appellees. Other party representation: Belinda E. Edwards Atlanta Public Schools Law Department, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A0529

    Plaintiff could not sue s board for failing to maintain a flashing speed limit sign or have a crossing guard on duty when her son was struck and killed near his s

  • Oglethorpe Power Corp. v. Hartwell Energy Ltd. Partnership

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth T. Horton Jr. Autry & Horton LLP, Tucker, and William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0823

    Third party's sale of stock did not trigger defendant's right of first refusal under an ag t between plaintiff and defendant, since third party was not plaintiff's affiliate as defined in the a

  • Wingate v. Ridgeview Inst. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard M. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel S. Reinhardt and Jennifer A.K. Campbell Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A0501

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's decision in Ridgeview Inst. Inc. v. Wingate, 271 Ga. 512 1999, holding that treatment facility properly adhered to the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 37-

  • Lebbage v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Elaine T. McGruder, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0395

    Defendant's bipolar disorder did not mandate that he be found guilty but mentall

  • Battle v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Millsaps, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan A. Cook District Attorney, and William K. Wynne Jr., Chief Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0634

    Illustrations provided by trial court during rec to jury did not demand reversal in light of the totality of the rec

  • Holland v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney L. Mathis, Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: Wayne E. Brooks Jr., F. Gregory Melton Kinney, Kemp, Sponcler, Joiner & Tharpe, Dalton, for appellee. Other party representation: Julius W. Peek Jr. Shaw, Maddox, Graham, Monk & Boling, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Velma Cowen, Tilley, Assistant Attorney General, Cartersville.
    Case Number: A00A0094

    Because plaintiff failed to provide a transcript of the hearing on his counsel's lien for fees, the order establishing the amount of his counsel's lien was aff

  • In the Interest of D.P.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William S. Hart, and Bobby G. Adkins Jr., Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Sanders B. Deen and Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph T. Justice Clark & Justice, Marietta.
    Case Number: A00A0842, A00A0843

    Evidence that the parent failed to attend classes and stay at her group home, had a history of being disruptive and of running away without making her whereabouts known and abandoned her child sever

  • Barich v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Reed, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven L. Head and Thomas J. Pavloff Richter, Head & Shinall LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0726

    An unidentified waitress's alleged remark after plaintiff slipped that something must have fallen off her tray was inadmissible he

  • Mashburn v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-08-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eric A. Ballinger Conrad & Abernathy, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Debra M. Sullivan, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0564

    Evidence that defendant spanked his 5-year-son until the boy could no longer cry, forced him to walk back and forth with his hands in the air while hitting him, and locked him in a room at night cor

  • Rapid Taxi Co. v. Broughton

    Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney L. Moore Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas C. Sinowski and Thomas P. Derosay Freedman & Sinowski, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0266

    Trial court should have considered the merits of defendant's motion to open default because the default judgment as to defendant's liability did not dispose of plaintiff's entire