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  • Hopson v. Kennestone Hosp. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank J. Beltran and Charlotte K. Perrell Beltran & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Henry D. Green Jr. and David V. Johnson Browning & Tanksley LLP, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1852

    The defendant's failing to object to her former husband's request for her drug rehabilitation records from the plaintiff hospital did not waive her patient-psychiatrist privilege since privileged ma

  • Morton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ellis R. Garnett, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2315

    Waitress's identification of defendant as the masked man who held restaurant employees and customers at gunpoint while his masked associate took the money supported the convic

  • Odom v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Coatsey Ellison, Morrow, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2297

    The state did not discriminate on the basis of gender when it struck a single father because he might sympathize with defe

  • Russell v. Barnett Banks Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph J. Saia Saia, Richardson & Meinken, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. Dupre IV Miller & Martin, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2101

    Bank had no fiduciary duty to ensure construction quality of plaintiff's home before releasing construction loan funds to builder since bank and plaintiff had opposing interests as debtor and cre

  • Reese v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hurl R. Taylor Jr., Ellenwood, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, and Stephen L. Corso, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1897

    Evidence of the victim's disciplinary history in her employment as a police officer could not be used to impeach her since it did not involve a conviction of a crime involving moral turp

  • Shepherd v. Winn Dixie Stores Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick S. Eidson, Mark G. Pitts and Robert M. Beauchamp Beauchamp & Assocs., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert M. Clyatt and Carl G. Fulp III Clyatt, Clyatt & Devaughn, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2128

    Store manager's affidavit did not prove store's reasonable inspection procedure, since it was not apparent that he had personal knowledge that the store followed the procedure on the day plaintiff

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry M. Hazen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Donald P. Geary, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2296

    The trial court should have allowed the defendant to cross-examine the state's witness regarding the pending revocation of her first offender probation since her testimony was the only evidence impl

  • Wilder v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles H. Weston, District Attorney, and Myra Y. Christian, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2424

    Evidence that defendant wrote letters from jail instructing her son and his girlfriend to burn her home and filed an $81,000 insurance claim for the home's contents even though it was empty supporte

  • Bailey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Walker, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor, and Julie A. Kert, Assistant City Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2065

    The trial court should have fined defendant $25 rather than $1,203 for having no proof of insurance since the defendant presented proof that he had insurance at the time of his cit

  • Strobhert v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George H. Law III, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith, District Attorney, and Jeffrey W. Frazier, Assistant District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1960

    The trial court improperly charged that communications threatening violence may constitute obstruction of an of since there was no evidence that defendant verbally threatened the of