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  • In the Interest of R.D.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: James E. Wilbanks, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Sanders B. Deen and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0824

    Evidence of father's drug use, suicide attempts, felony convictions, incarceration, mental illness and failure to contact or support his minor son supported termination of his parental r

  • GLW Int'l Corp. v. Yao

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melvin L. Dansby, East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Seaton D. Purdom, Irwin W. Stolz Jr. and Robert G. Brazier Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2298

    The fact that defendants moved for directed verdict only at the close of plaintiff's case did not preclude their raising the issue on a

  • Vaughn v. Protective Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Fred Orr II Orr & Edwards, Decatur, and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Gray II Gray, Hedrick & Edenfield, and Linda M. Fitzgerald Michael T. Thornton PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2146

    Decedent who rode in the back of a flatbed truck which crashed into an oncoming tractor trailer could not have assumed the risk of being hit by the tractor trailer which was being driven at an exces

  • Wiley v. Liberty Southern Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Crawford and Thomas E. Greer Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer PC, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2335

    The company that managed the hotel where plaintiff slipped and fell down the stairs was not entitled to summary judgment because there was evidence that a wet spot at the top of the stairs was not

  • In re Estate of Thomas Edward Davis

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Parker and Lisa J. Bucko Savell & Williams LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deborah Ebel, F.T. Davis Jr. Long, Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, David E. Ralston, Blue Ridge, and Heather C. Smith Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Miami, Fla., for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1821

    Probate court had grounds to remove executor of estate because he destroyed pornographic material in decedent's home and on his computer that was relevant to a child molestation suit pending against

  • JarAllah v. Schoen

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0521

    Although the plaintiff claimed that one of the defense attorneys called him a liar and accused him of abusing the legal system, he presented no evidence that anyone else heard the attorney's re

  • Day v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
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    Case Number: A99A2458

    Although the defendant claimed that two of the state's wi s perjured themselves when they testified that defendant's palm print was found at the crime scene, he presented no evidence that the w

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Katz, Avondale Estates, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Bettieanne C. Hart, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1819

    Evidence that defendant picked the lock on the victim's window and opened the window three inches before fleeing showed defendant took a substantial step toward entering the victim's home without au

  • Davis v. The Sherwin-Williams Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Calvin A. Rouse, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jack N. Sibley and Robert S. Thompson Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0725

    A painting contractor did not show that a Sherwin-Williams representative acted with malice in issuing an inspection report that included findings that the contractor improperly applied a concrete s

  • Anatek Inc. v. CSX Realty Dev. LLC

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin R. Armbruster Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher W. Phillips Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0562

    The plaintiff's contract with the defendant's lessee for improvements to the leased premises did not subject the defendant's property to an enforceable lien because there was no contractual relation