• In the Interest of C.T. & D.T.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Cynthia N. Johnson Waycaster, Johnson, Morris & Dean, Dalton, for appellee. Other party representation: Ann H. Searcy, and Jerry W. Moncus, Dalton.

    Case Number: A00A2467

    The father's criminal history and evidence that he was in a federal detention center awaiting deportation supported the termination of his parental r

  • Georgia Dept. of Human Resources v. Coley

    Publication Date: 2001-01-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, John C. Jones, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Bruce M. Edenfield and Robert L. Bunner Gray Hedrick & Edenfield LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Lawson Lawson & Priebe, Jason K. Priebe and Charles E. Cox Jr., Macon, for appellees.

    Case Number: A00A1491

    Under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, the state was immune from a suit involving the strangulation of the plaintiff's brother at a state hos

  • Toal v. DeKalb Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-01-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Rawls, V. Robert Denham Jr., Sara K. Sledge and Holly A. Pierson Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Per B. Normark and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A00A1654, A00A1655

    Georgia's 1996 Medicaid reimbursement plan was invalid because the Georgia Department of Medical Assistance adopted the plan without make the findings necessary to insure that the plan provided for

  • Fulton County Bd. of Tax Assessors v. Visiting Nurse Health Sys. of Metro Atlanta Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-05-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maureen M. McLeod and Thomas A. Cox Jr. Johnson, Freeman & Perkins-Hooker LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David M. Zacks and Burleigh L. Singleton Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1925

    A nonprofit home health care corpor is not a nonprofit hospital that is exempt from ad valorem tax