• Richards v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Ozcomert, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Campbell Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Paul L. Groth Sharon W. Ware & Assocs. and Michael T. Bennett Bennett & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1647

    Plaintiff lacked standing to bring a direct suit against an insurance company prior to obtaining a judgment against the in

  • Bishop v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brenda J. Bernstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Eleanor A. Kornahrens and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2238

    The trial court did not err in retroactively applying O.C.G.A. § 16-11-66 d as amended and in admitting the testimony of the victim's mother as to her daughter's conversation with the defe

  • Perkins v. Georgia Dep't of Med. Assistance

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ralph S. Goldberg, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Per B. Normark, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2505

    The trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over a plaintiff who failed to exhaust his administrative rem

  • Stalvey v. Bates

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Melinda B. Phillips Benson & Phillips PC, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Suzanne P. Mathis, Lakeland, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2236

    The trial court erred in using a best interest of the children standard in granting legal and physical custody of the father's children to their maternal grandmother without first determining upon c

  • Satilla Community Serv. Bd. v. Satilla Health Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard K. Strickland Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip R. Taylor Taylor, Odachowski & Sperry LLC, St. Simons Island, W. Grady Pedrick, Waycross, Michael G. Frick Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Brunswick and John R. Thigpen Sr., Blackshear, for appellee. Other party representation: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross.

    Case Number: A01A1747

    A community service board was not immune from liability for breaching a contract which required it to provide services to a psychiatric pa

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  • Childress v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Brown Jr., McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Rutherford, McDonough, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1643

    The officer's observations of defendant, combined with defendant's admissions that he was driving a car which appeared to have run off the road and that he had consumed several beers, provided proba

  • Burns v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joe Morris III, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, and Jennifer L. Moore, Assistant Solicitor, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1936

    The imposition of a $1,000 fine could not stand in the absence of a factual finding that defendant was able to reimburse the county for the cost of his de

  • Goodwyn v. Carter

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Robert Raley, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd D. Wozniak and Michael W. Johnston King & Spalding, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A01A2271

    The trial court lacked jurisdiction over plaintiff's motion to reinstate his suit because the suit was automatically dismissed after five years passed without an order being

  • State v. McDuff

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry E. Morgan, Solicitor General, Keith S. Hasson and Anthony Volkodav Jr. Cobb County Solicitor's Office, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brian D. Hardison, Powder Springs, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2122

    Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 40-8-76.1, the driver of a pickup truck, can be stopped and ticketed for the failure to require a minor passenger to wear a seatbelt, even if the driver is not operating the p

  • McKinney v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-26
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Morgan III, Abbeville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A2397

    Defendant tried to sell a grocery bag full of on the same night that someone threw a brick through a grocery store window and stole over $700 worth of