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  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton and J. Scott Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Candace K. Slezak, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1610

    The state presented no probative evidence that a supervising officer authorized the roadblock in que

  • In re I. M. G.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua D. Earwood, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: in A05A1505. Thomas N. Brunt, Cartersville, for appellant. in A05A1506. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Charissa A. Ruel, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Barry S. Haney Neel & Smith, Cartersville, for appellee. Other party representation: Kelley A. Dial Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Cartersville.
    Case Number: A05A1505 & A05A1506

    The juvenile court erred in admitting testimony from a psychotherapist, who was providing mental health treatment to the mother, in a parental termination proce

  • City of Atlanta v. Southern States Police Benevolent Assoc. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry D. Fellows Jr. and Laurie E. Dugoniths Fellows, Johnson & La Briola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Norman J. Slawsky Jacobs & Slawsky, Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, and Grady K. Dukes, McDonough, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1131

    The boards of three city of Atlanta defined benefit pension plans have the authority to hire a third party administrator to handle the administration of the pension benefits and to obtain advice fro

  • Brown v. Dorsey

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel, George P. Shingler and Guy H. Weiss Casey, Gilson & Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. Linkous III, Chief Assistant County Attorney, Melanie F. Wilson, Sam L. Brannen Jr., Assistant County Attorneys, Decatur and Viviane H. Ernstes, Atlanta. Other party representation: E. Duane Jones Duane Jones & Assocs., Decatur, and Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A05A1129

    DeKalb county was not liable under 42 USC § 1983 for the murder of DeKalb county Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown by former county deputies at the direction of former Sheriff Sidney D

  • Gropper v. STO Corp.

    Publication Date: 2005-12-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Gorby, Mary D. Peters, Barry C. Edwards and Adam H. Long Gorby, Reeves & Peters PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan B. Mason, John A. Thomson Jr. Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, John C. Amabile Pursley, Lowery & Meeks, Stephen M. Schatz, Melissa K. Kahren and Kenneth M. Barre Swift, Currie, McGhee & Heirs, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Charles J. Cole Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Donald J. Ellis Ellis, Funk, Goldberg, Labovitz & Dokson PC, Michael J. Rust, James T. Brieske Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske, Kent T. Stair, Charles E. Rogers, Cheryl H. Shaw Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Wayne Grant, Atlanta, and Terrence A. Shannon, Porterdale.
    Case Number: A05A1012

    The Court affirmed the dismissal of the plaintiffs' suit arising out of the use of synthetic stucco in the construction of their home as a sanction for the plaintiffs' repeated and wilful failure to

  • In re Skandalakis

    Publication Date: 2005-11-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. D. Lake Ramsey Jr., Atlanta, Sharon C. Barnes, Chairperson Review Panel, Alpharetta. James H. Cox Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S05Y0898

    Bar Rule 4-213 a's reporting requirement applies only to hearings that arise from filing on formal complaint, not show cause hearings arising after an attorney's felony convi

  • State v. McKinney

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: David A. LaMalva, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1330

    The defendant's 14-year-old son did not have the particularized authority to consent to the search of his father's be

  • Ely v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bret E. Rudeseal, Shannon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Charles S. Cox, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1535

    Even if the defendant could have impeached two witnesses with prior videotaped statements, which the state failed to disclose, other evidence supported his aggravated assault convic

  • Whitworth v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Martin Martin Brothers PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1340

    The trial court properly noted that there is a difference between the lesser degree of neutrality required of a prosecutor and the greater degree required of a

  • State v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and Finnis K. Salmon, Assistant District Attorney, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher P. Twyman Cox, Byinton, Corwin, Niedrach, Smith & Twyman, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0824

    No evi supported a "no-knock" provision in a search warrant that was based on standard language involving the affiant's general knowledge of whether the defendant would destroy the drug evi