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  • In the Interest of A. T. H. and J. D. E.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristopher Shepherd, Athens, 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 Tony D. Coy, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2090

    Mother's convictions for felony murder and armed robbery in violation of her established reunification goal supported the termination of her parental r

  • Helm v. Graham

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade M. Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl A. Adcock, Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A1788

    Evidence did not support a change in physical custody where general conditions had improved since the prior custody order and the only material change was the mother's remarriage and proposed reloca

  • Huval v. Jacobs

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph M. McLaughlin Clark & McLaughlin, Lawrenceville, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barbara E. Keon Land, Cohen & Keon, Atlanta, and Edgar J. Perkerson III, Lawrenceville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2565

    Juvenile court was not required to appoint a 7-year-old's grandmother as her guardian pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 29-4-8, even though the grandmother was the child's nearest kin by

  • Chaney v. Burdett

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Gaulden Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. William Haley Perrie, Buker, Jones & Morton PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1895

    Because the surviving partner elected to continue the business following dissolution of the par ip by operation of law, the deceased partner's widow had no right to compel liquidation of the pa

  • Phillips Correctional Inst. v. Yarbrough

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank R. McKay Sartain, McKay & Crowell, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Mark Harper, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2265

    Expert testimony that decedent's job exertion contributed to his fatal heart attack supported the ALJ's determination that decedent suffered a compensable i

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  • Salinas v. Skelton

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sylvia R. Jones, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce P. Brown, Gregory S. Brow Long, Aldridge & Norman, Joseph R. Cruser Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Sharon L. Rowen Rowen & Klonoski PC and Jennifer M. McBath Drew, Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1973

    A notification letter referring to the presence of asbestos in plaintiff's condominium which defendants produced during discovery was admissible as evidence that they had knowledge of the toxic subs

  • The Kroger Co. v. Strickland

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas A. Wilde Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard W. Jones Jones & Ledbetter PC, Calhoun, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2581

    A grocery store could be vicariously liable for the acts of an independent contractor if the contracted duty was statutorily req

  • Magueur v. Department of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Beauchamp Beauchamp & Assocs., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney, Allyson P. Krause and Jennifer Dalton Roorbach, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2338

    DOT was entitled to immunity on plaintiff's claim that it negligently approved a road design for a road that was owned, built and maintained by the c

  • Fann v. Mills

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Converse Bright, Valdosta, for Fann. William E. Cannon Jr. and Toysha M. Flowers Cannon, Meyers, Von Breman & Goss, Albany, for Mills. William P. Langdale III and Willie J. Linahan Langdale Vallotton Linahan Wetherington, Valdosta, for Barker.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A00A2434; A00A2435

    Because the real estate contract required the seller to supply a wood infestation report, the contract's merger clause did not bar the buyer's claims based on the alleged concealment of an unfavorab

  • In the Interest of C. D. E., S. M. E. and D. C. E.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Whitman and Sandra D. Hicks, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, and William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and John P. Cheeley Cheeley & Joyner LLC, Duluth for appellee. Other party representation: Laura W. Hyman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1914; A00A1995

    The evidence did not support a finding that the children were deprived due to domestic abuse by the father who no longer resided in the mother's