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  • Bunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James B. Smith, District Attorney, Winder, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G0682

    The Supreme Court overruled Division 3 of Woodard v. State, 269 Ga. 317 1998, holding that it was inconsistent, the legislature had a rational basis for creating the Child Hearsay Statute and the st

  • Hicks v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela Dillon Brown & Gill, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, and Deborah Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0998

    The scheme perpetrated by the defendant involved an investment contract or security, as th ims parted with their money in anticipation of investment gains, a common enterprise existed because t

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • June 13, 2011 |

    Your Product" and "Your Work" Exclusions

    Discusses exclusions k. damage to insured's product arising out of it, and l. damage to insured's work arising out of it and included in the products-completed operations hazard.

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  • Cruickshank v. Fremont Investment & Loan

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth Cruickshank, Powder Springs, proceeded pro se. Frank R. Olson McCurdy & Candler LLC, Decatur, and Kelly L. Atkinson Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A2178

    The record showed that the first defendant served the plaintiff with its response within the 30-day period as O.C.G.A. § 1-3-1 d 3 req