• Georgia Dep't of Community Health v. Freels

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Charles E. Hoffecker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael Rosetti Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1160

    The state department of community health applied the wrong legal standard in denying a petition for Medicaid reimbursement for experimental cerebral palsy treat

  • Whitehead v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walker L. Chandler, Zebulon, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Charles E. Rooks, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1576

    The officers' corroboration of the informant's tip through surveillance gave them reasonable suspicion to believe that defendant was engaged in criminal activity before they stopped his ve

  • Whited v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shandor S. Badaruddin, Missoula, Mont., for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip C. Smith,, District Attorney, Cumming, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1550

    Trial counsel was not ineffective for failing to object to testimony that defendant almost hit two children since the testimony was relevant to defendant's indictment for aggravated as

  • R&S Farms Inc. d/b/a Master Care Floor Serv. v. Butler

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Theodore Freeman and Andrea S. Hirsch Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Philip M. Brown and Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Clark PC, Macon, for appellee. Other party representation: Douglas A. Wilde Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta.

    Case Number: A02A1620

    Plaintiff failed to show that a janitorial service assumed any contractual duty to protect or warn grocery store patrons of a foreign substance on the floor of the grocery store's dairy

  • Belcher v. John Folsom d/b/a Folsom's Auto Sales Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Karla L. Walker Copeland & Haugabrook, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bradley M. Hannan Smith, Hannan & Parker PC, Valdosta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1313

    The 2-year statute of limitation barred plaintiff's second wrongful repossession suit against defendant where she failed to ask the trial court to take judicial notice of the original case r

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  • Dubberly v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Elrod Brennan & Wasden, and Scott R. Tolbert, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Stephen Sims Barrow & Sims PC, Savannah, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1492

    Plaintiff's own testimony that he was 65 feet away when he saw the defendant enter an intersection supported the trial court's charge on the duty to yield the right o

  • Deloach v. Deloach

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Pirkle, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry I. Smith Thompson & Smith PC, Augusta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A0931

    The cause of an automobile accident was not beyond the jury's ken where defendant admitted that he was intoxicated, but presented evidence that the accident in question was caused by a faulty accele

  • In the Interest of C. B.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edythe S. Whitaker, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and James T. Chafin III, McDonough, for appellee. Other party representation: Ann K. Miller Harrison & Harrison, McDonough, and James E. Watkins, Stockbridge.

    Case Number: A02A1570

    Evidence that the father pled guilty to sexually molesting his child supported the termination of his parental r

  • Lockett v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Maxwell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Frances D. Hakes and Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1498

    The 6-year-old victim's unwavering statements to her great-grandmother, grandfather and a police detective supported defendant's convictions for aggravated child molest and child molest

  • Dillard v. Bishop Eddie Long Ministries Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-11-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling and Jason W. Graham Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Francis X. Moore and Kathy R. Bess Byrne, Eldridge, Moore & Davis PC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A02A1126

    The plaintiffs had a sufficient interest to warrant a temporary injunction against further demolition of a dam on defendant's pro which formed the lake adjacent to plaintiffs' residential pro