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  • Sistrunk v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Judson L. Green IV Green & Green, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Louis C. Fraser, District Attorney, Dublin, and Robert B. Faircloth District Attorney's Office, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A1179

    Evidence that the defendant committed a traffic offense and that a preliminary breath test confirmed the presence of alcohol supported his DUI-less safe driver convi

  • Corbin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Abbott, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Susan A. Beck District Attorney's Office, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0888

    The defendant failed to argue or present evidence that exceptional circumstances warranted the admission of hearsay testimony tending to show that methamphetamine officers found in defendant's purse

  • Ayers v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald W. Brown, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Hartwell, and Leon Jourolman, Assistant District Attorney, Elberton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0219

    The Georgia Supreme Court has unequivocally stated that it is error to refuse to allow two attorneys to present middle closing argument on the defendant's b

  • Hamburger v. PFM Capital Management Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert D. Howell, Moultrie and O. Wayne Ellerbee, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen E. Hudson Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0694

    The applicable statutes of limitation barred the plaintiff's breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud c

  • Lincoln Elec. Co. v. Gaither

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall J. Butterfield King & Spalding, Jennifer G. Cooper Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Anthony L. Cochran Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, C. Wilson DuBose Winkler & DuBose, Madison, and Mary Parsons Fulkerson, Feder & Wollam LLP, Houston,Texas, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John D. Steel Matthews & Steel, Atlanta, Brian H. Barr Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor PA, Pensacola, Fla., Grant Kaiser The Kaiser Firm, John E. Williams Jr. Williams Baily Law Firm, Houston, Texas, and Walter Umphrey Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Beaumont, Texas, for appellees. Other party representation: James L. Hollis Balch & Bingham LLP, Charles B. Marsh, Kenneth M. Barre Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Robert B. Hocutt Nall & Miller, Robert C. Buck Childers, Buck & Schlueter LLP, Stevan A. Miller Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Charles J. Cole Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, and Mikal Watts The Watts Law Firm LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas.
    Case Number: A07A0177

    The claims of over 350 plaintiffs in ten law suits against defendant electric companies' for their alleged injures as the result of exposure to welding fumes were improperly joined under O.C.G.A. §

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  • Lincoln Elec. Co. v. Gaither

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall J. Butterfield King & Spalding, Jennifer G. Cooper Gambrell & Stolz LLP, Anthony L. Cochran Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, Atlanta, C. Wilson DuBose Winkler & DuBose, Madison, and Mary Parsons Fulkerson, Feder & Wollam LLP, Houston, Texas, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John D. Steel Matthews & Steel, Atlanta, Brian H. Barr Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Echsner & Proctor PA, Pensacola, Fla., Grant Kaiser The Kaiser Firm, John E. Williams Jr. Williams Baily Law Firm, Houston, Texas, and Walter Umphrey Provost Umphrey Law Firm, Beaumont, Texas, for appellees. Other party representation: James L. Hollis Balch & Bingham LLP, Charles B. Marsh, Kenneth M. Barre Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, John M. Hawkins Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Robert B. Hocutt Nall & Miller, Robert C. Buck Childers, Buck & Schlueter LLP, Stevan A. Miller Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Charles J. Cole Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, and Mikal Watts The Watts Law Firm LLP, Corpus Christi, Texas.
    Case Number: A07A0177

    The claims of over 350 plaintiffs in ten law suits against defendant electric companies' for their alleged injures as the result of exposure to welding fumes were improperly joined under O.C.G.A. §

  • Ben Farmer Realty Inc. v. Owens

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley M. Lefco, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brent J. Savage and Kathryn H. Pinckney Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant. Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0807

    The parties' unambiguous agreement was for a specific term with no right to terminate the agreement before the term ex

  • Baker v. Merrill Lynch Trust Co. FSB

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, John B. Ballard Jr. and Grace E. Lewis, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: C. Fred Reeves, W. Allen Separk, Marietta, and Patricia D. Friedman, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A07A0404

    The trial court erred in declining to apply O.C.G.A. § 53-12-113's cy pres doctrine-providing that ' "if a valid charitable bequest, trust, or gift cannot be executed in the exact manner provided by

  • Smith v. Saulsbury

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karen T. White, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Angelo T. Merolla, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0524

    Although the ultimate sale of the defendants' sof might have violated federal copyright law, such illegality was incidental or collateral to the parties' contract for advertisement of the sof

  • Washington v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel L. Henderson, Temple, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, and Maurice Brown, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0708

    A certified copy of a prior conviction for a child sex may be sufficient, without more, to prove the similarity of the prior