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  • Newsome v. Department of Admin. Servs.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel Bullard IV and Jon-Selby R. Hawk, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark D. Oldenburg, Peachtree City, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1975

    The 2-year statute of limitation for emp s personal injury claim applied to her employer's insurer's subrogation claim to recover workers' compensation benefits it paid to emp

  • Barone v. Law

    Publication Date: 2000-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark E. Silvey Sharon W. Ware & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mathew G. Nasrallah The Robertson Law Firm, Larry Hanna, Marietta, and Charles W. Chesbro, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0095

    Personal injury plaintiff's medical records that contradicted her testimony that she did not suffer from back, neck or leg pain before the car accident were admissible as impeachment evi

  • Crowder v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hal T. Peel, Claxton, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Durden Jr., District Attorney, Hinesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0109

    The trial court erred in charging that defendant's armed robbery could be the underlying felony of the firearms possession charge against him, since he was charged only with possession of a firearm

  • Huntington v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
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    Case Number: A99A2217

    The public duty doctrine barred plaintiff's claims that the police did not properly investigate drug sales and use in apartment complexes he

  • Ward v. Georgia Dep't of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackson E. Cox II Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles L. Cash Jr., McDonough, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Katherine S. Davis and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A2162

    Mother did not show she was harmed by the state bringing an child support action against her as an action to establish child support rather than to modify her already-existing child support obliga

  • Lathan v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leo E. Benton Jr., Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2155

    A police officer could testify that defendant's wife stated she would not have known if defendant left their home the night of the crime, since the wife testified that she did not make that stat

  • Tyson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George T. Smith Barnes, Browning, Tanksley & Casurella, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Bruce D. Hornbuckle, Debra H. Bernes and John C. Richter, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1603

    Police officer had no probable cause to arrest defendant for child molestation since he found no physical evidence, no victim and no corroboration of witnesses' claims that they saw the crime comm

  • In re Healy

    Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean A. Black, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1016

    Criminal defense attorney did not commit criminal contempt while questioning an expert witness when he referred to his client not being convicted in his first murder trial, which ended in a hung

  • 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