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  • DBL Inc. v. Carson

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Legman Franklin Jr. and Elizabeth A. Branch H. Lehman Franklin PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy A. O'Connell Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Bart LLP, Dwight T. Feemster, Edward L. Newberry Jr., Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Isaac Byrd, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Matthew M. Bush Duffy & Feemster, Savannah.
    Case Number: A03A0522

    Plaintiffs' were not entitled to an interlocutory injunction prohibiting the defendant from operating its marina, pending resolution of the case, because the plaintiffs' will not suffer irreparable

  • Tenorio v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randolph G. Rich Rich & Smith PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Gregory D. McKeithen, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0656

    De counsel failed to reasonably investigate and present defendant's alibi de

  • Hester v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Russell J. Parker Jr. Deming, Parker, Hoffman, Green & Campbell, Norcross, and Roderick H. Martin, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0738

    Defendant offered one of the arresting officers $1500 a week and his watch if the officer agreed to let h

  • Watson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, and Tasha M. Mosley, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0769

    Evidence that the defendant ran across the yard towards her neighbor after the two exchanged unpleasant words and engaged in a scuffle for several minutes authorized the jury to reject her claim of

  • State v. Oliver

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith C. Martin, Solicitor, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jerry L. Webb Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0334

    An officer may conduct field sobriety tests after informing a defendant of his Miranda warnings, where the officer had not yet decided whether to arrest the defendant for suspecte

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  • Edmondson v. Gilmore

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Galen A. Mirate, Valdosta, and Melinda M. Katz, Thomasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: George M. Saliba II, Gregory A. Voyles, Valdosta, and Charles R. Reddick, Homerville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0838

    A 6-year-old's foster parents are not collaterally estopped from seeking to adopt him since they were neither parties nor privies to a separate adoption case, involving the biological mother's surre

  • Nguyen v. Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam S. Jaffe, Atlanta, for Nguyen. Brenda K. Orrison Porter & Barrett, Atlanta, for Lumbermens Mut. Cas. Co. Other Party Representation: Barry L. Anderson Schweber, Izenson & Anderson, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0330; A03A0331

    A surety acted reasonably in paying $50,000 to a third-party financial services company after an audit show that that several mortgage loans procured through the defendant were fraud

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Amira S. AbuBakr, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0580

    The trial court did not err in instructing jurors that they could consider similar transaction evidence to corroborate the child molestation victim's test

  • Stearnes v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerald N. Blaney Jr., Solicitor, and Gary S. Vey, Assistant Solicitor, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0799

    A police officer properly stopped defendant for speeding, crossing the center lane, jerking his vehicle back into the proper lane and making a sudden lane c

  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryellen Simmons Word & Simmons PC, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0107

    The defendant had constructive possession of cocaine found in the car in which he was a passenger because he brought it to the car, told a co-defendant to pull it from under the front seat and plac