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  • Lipsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-11-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Burns Jr., Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, and Ronald M. Adams, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1458

    Off found over 28 grams of cocaine and less than one ounce of marijuana in a bag, which broke as the defendant was attempting to flee from off

  • Bartelt v. Convergence.com Corp.

    Publication Date: 2007-11-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen P. Fuller Davidson & Fuller, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Peter Q. Bassett and Kelly C. Wilcove Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A07A1361

    The term costs does not include deposition costs for purposes of those costs assessed against a losing party in a civil matter under O.C.G.A. § § 9-11-54 d and 9-

  • Harris-Jackson v. City of Cochran

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wilbur J. Moore Moore & Hawthorne, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman C. Pearson III Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs LLP, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1106

    The plaintiff failed to substantially comply with O.C.G.A. § 36-33-5's ante litem notice requirement in filing her suit for injuries she allegedly sustained after her car struck a negligently mainta

  • Gifford v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James G. Tunison Jr., Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Bradfield M. Shealy, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Laura A. Wood, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1492

    Admission of a deceased victim's statements to police violated the defendant's confrontation right, since the victim's testimonial hearsay was the only direct evidence of the armed robbery in que

  • Rice v. Champion Buildings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathryn and J. Andrew Rice, White, proceeded pro se. Alexander C. Covey Griffin, Cochrane & Marshall PC and Jesse W. Lincoln Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: A07A1274

    The appellants' failure to properly file their motion to intervene in appellee's breach of contract and promissory estoppel suit against corporation appellants' owned doomed their argument that the

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  • Slone v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Slone and Sonja Ebron, St. Petersburg, Fla., proceeded pro se. Ned Blumenthal, Laura S. Morris Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, Martin C. Jones, Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, and William S. Dominy, Decatur, for appellees.
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    Case Number: A07A1089; A07A1406; A07A2274

    The trial court erred in awarding attorneys' fees under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 b in the absence of evidentiary he

  • McGee v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-10-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bryan M. Gratham, Public Defender, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Harold V. Jones II, Assistant Solicitor General, and Fasha S. Lewis Solicitor General's Office, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1589

    The trial court abused its discretion in granting a sua sponte mistrial after impaneling a jury for the defendant's trial without first considering alternatives that would have preserved the defenda

  • In the Interest of J. R. P.

    Publication Date: 2007-10-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Felisa M. Harris The Harris Law Group PC, Peachtree City, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sandra D. Hicks The Hicks Law Firm, and David L. Whitman, Lawrenceville for appellee. Other party representation: Larry R. Right, Roswell, Ashley A. Stinson Gwinnett County Juvenile Court, Lawrenceville, and Chuck Sylvester Sylvester & Assocs. PC, Peachtree City.
    Case Number: A07A1182

    Maternal grandmother lacked standing to appeal order finding child deprived, since she was not his legal guardian or custodian and had no legal right to cu

  • Jones v. Equipment King Int'l

    Publication Date: 2007-10-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harvey S. Wasserman, Carnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Daniele C. Johnson Schwerd & Schwerd, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1532

    The general denial that the defendants filed in magistrate court was a sufficient response to the plaintiff's allegation that they failed to pay for farm equipment allegedly purchased on consig

  • Gainey v. Smacky's Invests. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-09-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Lars Anderson, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin A. Wangerin Bullard, Garcia & Wangerin, Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A07A1138

    An out-of-possession landlord was not liable for the injury sustained by the plaintiff when she fell off an allegedly defective pull-down attic staircase, since no evidence showed that the landlord