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  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0040

    Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to raise constitutional challenges to the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years imprisonment without parole for kidnapping a victim less than 14 year

  • Final Exit Network Inc. v. State of Georgia

    Publication Date: 2012-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert G. Rubin Peters, Rubin & Sheffield PA, Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Bruce S. Harvey, L. David Wolfe, Atlanta, and Robert Rivas Sachs Sax Caplan PL, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: . Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1960

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-5 b-providing that any person ' "who publicly advertises, offers, or holds himself or herself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in

  • February 3, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its white-collar criminal defense practice with the hire of GREG ANDR

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  • January 1, 2012 | The Recorder

    After 25 Years, Kennard to Step Down From High Court

    SAN FRANCISCO — Joyce Kennard will retire from the California Supreme Court on April 5, 25 years to the day she began making the improbable seem ordinary. Kennard was only t

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  • Jordan v. Bennett

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Yakov D. Shteyman Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and Edward A. Miller, Atlanta, for appellant. Thomas H. Hinson II Westmoreland, Patterson & Moseley, Macon, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1828

    Since the defendant's home balcony was a static condition, not a hidden peril, pitfall or mantrap, the defendant was liable to the plaintiff only for willful or wanton injuries and no evidence show

  • Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of Christ Church in Savannah v. Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil A. Creasy Simpson & Creasy PC, and Paul W. Painter Jr. Ellis Painter Ratterree & Adams LLP, Savannah, for appellants. James L. Elliott Elliott, Blackburn & Gooding PC, Valdosta, Thomas A. Withers Gillen, Withers & Lake LLC, Savannah, and Mary E. Kostel The Episcopal Church/Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Hugh B. McNatt McNatt, Greene & Peterson, Vidalia, David H. Gambrell, John Hinton IV Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Atlanta, John E. Tomlinson, Loganville, and Joshua D. Hawley The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C. Amicus Appellee: Jon V. Forehand Allen, Forehand & Adams LLP, Moultrie, Brenda C. Youmas Edwards & Youmas LLC, W. Warren Plowden Jr. Jones Cork & Miller LLP, Macon, William B. Marianes McGuireWoods LLP, and Nicholas C. Moraitakis Moraitakis, Kushel, Pearson & Gardner LLP, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10G1909

    Neutral principles of law established that the c property at issue was held in trust for the benefit of the parent c

  • Veasley v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patricia G. Abbott Abbott Law Firm, and Gina A. Smalley, Marietta, for appellant. Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and John R. Edwards District Attorney's Office, Marietta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1826

    The victims' television was in the truck the defendant was driving minutes after the burglary, along with other items related to the

  • December 2, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Hogan Lovells has hired intellectual property partner WILLIAM "SKIP" FISHER, who moves over from the Sea

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  • November 20, 2011 |

    Unilever benefits from web-based patent data management system

    Corporate patent departments should transition to a digital environment to manage portfolios.

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  • Sears v. State

    Publication Date: 2011-10-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles M. Evans, Morrow, for appellant. Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Billy J. Dixon, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Wolk, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S11A1194

    The trial court's failure to charge separately on accident was harmless, given the charge as a whole, which properly and fully instructed the jury on the state's burden of proving that the defendan