• Sparks v. The Hosp. Auth. of the City of Bremen and County of Haralson, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas B. Murphy Murphy, Murphy & Garner, Bremen, John H. Parker Jr. and Leo E. Reichert Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bryan M. Cavan, Seaton D. Purdom and Christopher R. Stovall Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, J. Thomas Vance and Steven T. Minor Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton.

    Case Number: A99A1146

    City/county hospital authority violated the Hospital Acquisition Act by transferring control over nonprofit hospital to a medical center without first disclosing the transaction to the state attorne

  • Richardson v. Barber

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Eckhardt and Louis E. Hatcher, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert M. Margeson III, Albany, and W.P. Traylor III Yearout, Myers & Traylor, Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1005

    Father who provided no legal or emotional support to his son and did not establish a relationship with the child was entitled to only $5,000 of the $1 million settlement for the child's wrongful

  • Hambrick v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A2440, A99A2441

    In response to the jurors' asking whether defendants were charged merely with striking correctional officers or also with threatening those officers and refusing to be handcuffed, the trial court p