• King v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Healan III, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Jack S. Schroder Jr., Angela T. Burnette, Donna P. Bergeson Alston & Bird, Nicholas A. Lotito Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, Randall L. Hughes Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Richard L. Shackelford King & Spaulding, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, James E. Singer Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Albert M. Pearson III Mills, Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, David A. Cook Medical Assoc. of Ga., Karen L. Duke Promina Health Systems Inc., Robert A. Schapiro, Associate Professor Emory Univ. School of Law, Atlanta, David N. Nelson Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Charles M. Cork III Reynolds and McArthur, Kenneth B. Banks Central Georgia Health Sys. Inc., Macon, Nina M. Svoren Healy & Svoren, Sean A. Black, Toccoa, Carol M. Todd West Georgia Health Sys. Inc., LaGrange, T. Mills, Fleming Hunter, McLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Michael G. Gray Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Byrd, Perry, C. Wade Monk II Shaw, Maddox, Graham, Monk & Boling, Rome, Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, Swainsboro, Charles C. Olson, Staff Attorney, Alvin G. Hollingshed Prosecuting Atty's Council of Ga., Smyrna, Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor General, Cumming, and Paul M. Kurtz, Professor & Associate Dean University of Georgia, Athens.

    Case Number: S99A1490

    The state's use of O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a to subpoena defendant's medical records was unconstitut

  • Minnix v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Foy R. Devine, David S. Hagy Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield Knowles & Devine, Atlanta, and William D. Sparks Mundy & Gammage PC, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Alison H. Price III, G. Thomas Davis, Special Assistant Attorney General, and Paul R. Jordon Lawson, Davis, Pickren & Seydel LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1677

    Court of Appeals adopts Georgia Supreme Court's judgment that where a professional negligence action is filed against an employer based upon the action or inaction of its agent or employee, the expe

  • Hayes v. Collins

    Publication Date: 2000-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Gabel, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce R. Millar Lee Sexton & Assocs. and John S. Mixon Jr., Jonesboro, for appellee.

    Case Number: A00A1440

    Absent evidence to warrant piercing the corporate veil, plaintiff could not recover from sole shareholder of corporation individually for repayment of a corporate

  • Azarat Mktg. Group Inc. v. Georgia Dep't of Admin. Affairs

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
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    Case Number: A00A0365, A00A0366

    The state waived its res judicata defense to plaintiff's complaint by failing to raise it in an answer or motion prior to suffering a default jud

  • Atkins v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-05-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lynn M. Friedewald, Public Defender, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, and Robert M. Coker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A1697

    The victim's pediatrician could testify as to whether the victim's medical history was consistent with molestation, so long as she did not give an opinion as to whether the victim was actually mol

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  • 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

  • Cardio TVP Surgical Assocs. PC v. Gillis

    Publication Date: 2000-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Edwards and Blair K. Cleveland Martin, Snow, Grant & Napier, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Berrien L. Sutton Sutton & Assocs. PC, Homerville, Keith H. Solomon, Douglas, Ronald W. Hallman, Claxton, Mitchel P. House Jr. Sell & Melton, Macon, and Kenneth G. Menendez Vincent, Berg, Stalzer & Menendez, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Sidney N. Summers Vincent, Berg, Stalzer & Menendez, and David C. Cook Medical Assoc. of Ga., Atlanta.

    Case Number: S99G1712

    Whether it was appropriate for the physician's assistant to harvest the plaintiff's vein was not a jury question, since the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners is the only entity who can make

  • Kendall v. Griffin-Spalding County Hosp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A99A2172, A99A2173

    Under O.C.G.A. § 31-7-75 the hospital authority could not transfer the power and discretion to carry out all of its functions to a private

  • Kendall v. Griffin-Spalding County Hosp. Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A99A2172, A99A2173

    Under O.C.G.A. § 31-7-75 the hospital authority could not transfer the power and discretion to carry out all of its functions to a private

  • Yearwood v. Southern Life Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-04-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pat E. Belcher II Belcher, Pakchar & Sams, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent J. Savage Savage, Herndon & Turner PC, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A99A2472

    The defe s former district manager was not entitled to receive continuing commissions on accounts he originated while working for the defe