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  • Sexton v. Clayton County Tax Digest

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donald M. Comer II, Jonesboro, Brian R. Dempsey, Jack R. Hancock Hancock & Echols, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Laurel E. Henderson, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0379

    Trial court set an excessive millage rate for temporary collection of ad valorem taxes pending approval of county's tax digest, since that rate would allow the county to collect funds exceeding its b

  • State v. Milsap

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James R. Osborne, District Attorney, Buchanan, and Donald N. Wilson, Assistant District Attorney, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles E. Pinkard Jr. Charles E. Pinkard Jr. PC, Rockmart, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2064

    Once the police officer lawfully stopped defendant for his seat belt violation, the officer did not need probable cause or an articulable suspicion to ask for defendant's consent to search th

  • Febuary v. Averitt Properties Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen M. Welsh Buzzell, Graham & Welsh LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David N. Nelson and Joseph H. Chambless Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Macon, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A0211

    Even if plaintiff fell from defendant's loading ramp because he tripped over the ramp's concrete ledge, defendant was not liable since plaintiff was aware of the ledge and of the ramp's height and

  • Hendon v. Superior Roofing Co. of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David S. Walker Jr., Lilburn, and W. Phillip McCurdy III McCurdy & Stone, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frederic S. Beloin, Charles W. Brown Beloin & Assocs., and Thomas S. Bechtel Crim & Bassler, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0355

    Evidence that homeowner refused to pay roof installer based on a deficiency list that he claimed a roof inspector prepared but that he actually wrote supported installer's award of bad faith attorne

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas R. Moran, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1931

    Neither the trial court nor defense counsel had any duty to inform defendant that he would have no right to withdraw his guilty plea to burglary once the court pronounced his sen

  • In the Interest of J.S.G.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold J. Choate III White & Choate, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shalen A. Sgrosso, Velma C. Tilley and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Garland Lea, Cartersville, and John C. Shelton, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A99A1908

    Mother's failure to establish a stable home, to obtain stable employment, or to cease residing with an illegal alien as required by her reunification plan supported termination of her parental right

  • Hazelwood v. Adams

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John S. Husser Mundy & Gammage PC, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven J. Misner and Donald J. Grate Law Offices of Richard W. Littlefield Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A98A0971

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that a high school football coach was immune from a suit arising out of his disciplining the plaintiff for vand

  • Aldrich v. City of Lumber City

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry N. Hollington Larry N. Hollington PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel C. Kniffen and Terrence T. Rock Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A0847

    Claimant could be ordered to repay total disability benefits back to the date he ceased to be disabled, even if that date preceded the date the workers' compensation board last determined his injuri

  • Smithson v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. White and Brendan J. McCarthy Varner, Stephens, Humphries & White LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Ann Grier Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins and Melvin Drukman, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1796

    Trial court could not direct a defense verdict since the parties presented conflicting evidence as to whether defendant committed fraud or breached a contract in providing a substandard wedding dres

  • Brown v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kelley A. Dial, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1665

    Defendant who did not inform the trial court why he needed an independent expert to test his and the victim's blood for alcohol and drugs was not entitled to funds or to a continuance for that te