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  • Johnson v. Rodier

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Grindle, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carter R. Page Hatcher, Stubbs, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2314

    Plaintiff did not need an expert affidavit to support his claims that defendant physician intentionally breached his privacy and interfered with his employment by informing his employer that he was

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

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rajan Bhandari, Chamblee, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Christopher M. Farmer and Janice M. Wallace Harper, Waldon & Craig, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2045

    Plaintiff's counsel's vague affidavit regarding his efforts to locate and serve defendant did not show that plaintiff diligently tried to serve defendant after the expiration of the limitation p

  • Spradley v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael G. Schiavone and Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Lori L. Canfield, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1618

    Defendant could be retried after he successfully moved for mistrial when the prosecutor introduced inadmissible evidence from a 911 call, since the prosecutor did not intentionally goad defendant in

  • Bailey v. Jim's Minit Mkt. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monroe J. Feldman and Douglas R. Sandberg Feldman & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsey & Dickerson, Toccoa, for appellee. Other party representation: Andrew J. Hill III Blasingame Burch Garrard Bryant & Ashley, Athens.
    Case Number: A00A0001

    A jury could find that defendant should have foreseen that an unsupervised 10-year-old might shoot another child with the BB's he purchased from defendant's

  • Wollesen v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles S. Hunter, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Debra H. Bernes and Maria B. Golick, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0083

    Affidavit from Maryland state attorney stating that defendant received money from her son after he was found in contempt for failure to pay child support supported finding that defendant could be co

  • Gwinnett-Club Assocs. v. Southern Elec. Supply Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ira L. Rachelson Rachelson & White, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dock H. Davis, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1641

    Even though debtor's bankruptcy stayed cement of creditor's action to recover on a materialman's lien, creditor still had to file a notice of commencement of that action to preserve its right t

  • Sadeghy v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick G. Longhi, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmen Smith, Solicitor, Jody L. Peskin and Cynthia G. Strong-McCarthy, Assistant Solicitors General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0809

    Although defendant claimed he was defending himself, the jury was free to believe victim's testimony that defendant approached him and struck him in the face when he asked defendant to step

  • Martin v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon P. Kemeness, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Clifford P. Bowden, District Attorney, and Holli G. Martin, Assistant District Attorney, Tifton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0098

    A videotape of the defendant selling cocaine to the paid informant supported the defendant's convic

  • Wilson v. Anderson-Columbia Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sid M. Kresses and Kenneth I.M. Behrman Birnbey & Kresses, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William P. Langdale III Langdale, Vallotton, Linahan, Threlkeld & Wetherington, Valdosta, for appellee. Other party representation: J. Converse Bright, Valdosta, Michael J. Gorby Gorby, Reeves, Peters & Burns PC, Richard N. Sheinis Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2338

    The plaintiffs could not recover damages in their injury suit against the defendant, since the third-party defendant was liable to the defendant by default and the plaintiffs previously agreed to in

  • Dixon v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Goldberg, Roswell, and Michael E. Bergin Law Office of Michael E. Bergin, Fairburn, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dennis R. Fortin, Decatur, Jeffrey E. Tompkins Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Patterson, Walter B. McClelland and Jo B. Gosdeck Chambers, Mabry, McClelland & Brooks, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Lee A. Frison Jr. Ward & Frison PA, Newnan.
    Case Number: A99A2221

    The trial court's elimination of all but one of plaintiffs' claims based on its sua sponte ruling that the claims were barred by collateral estoppel and res judicata did not give the plaintiffs fair