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  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Homer R. Hannah III, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0510

    Evidence that on the date of his scheduled release from prison, inmate allowed another inmate to borrow his identification and leave the prison and did not bring the escape to prison officials' atte

  • Moton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Victor Long, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Pridgen, District Attorney, and Kathryn O. Fallin, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1680

    Since defendant sold cocaine after the Georgia Controlled Substances Act was amended to make a life sen discretionary for his offense, the trial court erred in imposing a mandatory life sen

  • Zager v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Goldberg, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruth W. Woodling Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2100

    Employer's letter stating that employee had a two-year contract with the company was not an enforceable employment contract since it did not describe nature or location of employee's d

  • Phillips v. Walls

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A99A1968, A99A1969

    County transportation employees had official immunity against plaintiffs' suit for their children's deaths on a county road, since plaintiffs presented no evidence that employees negligently inspec

  • Ogburn v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0215, A00A0411

    Following his acquittal, defendant could not seek to modify the record to set aside the trial court's denial of his motion for a directed verdict just because he wanted to improve his chances of rec

  • Muhammad v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A1654

    The defendant could not complain that the trial court failed to exercise its discretion to probate or suspend part of his recidivist sentence since the court reviewed the defendant's prior convicti

  • Hyatt Corp. v. Cook

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Brice Ladson, Jeffrey M. Rutledge and Christopher J. Thompson Ladson & Suthers LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas G. Andrews, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1770

    Hotel was not liable for plaintiff's arrest by the off-duty police officer it hired to provide security on New Year's Eve, since it did not instruct the officer on how to fulfill his security d

  • Jackson v. K-Mart Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rita T. Williams and John H. Armwood Williams & Armwood, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: F. Earl Wiggers Jr. F. Earl Wiggers PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0388

    Plaintiff's speculation that she tripped over a floor mat that had rolled up due to a gust of wind did not establish that a hazardous condition ex

  • Houston v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Catherine M. Williams Williams & Spears PC, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, James E. Hardy, Chief Assistant District Attorney, and Mark E. Mitchell, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2032

    The defendant was not entitled to separate trials on charges that he robbed four victims from the same county during the same month by engaging them in conversation and then demanding

  • Nix v. Cox Enters. Inc. d/b/a The Atlanta Constitution

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward T.M. Garland and Nelson O. Tyrone III Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter C. Canfield and Thomas M. Clyde Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0070

    The trial court should have treated the defendant's motion to dismiss as a motion for summary judgment because the defendant relied on evidence from a separate lawsuit to show that its newspaper art