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  • Skaliy v. Metts

    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Troy A. Lanier Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, Augusta, and Gary J. Toman Nations Toman & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant. Ziva P. Bruckner Capers, Dunbar, Sanders & Bruckner, Barry A. Fleming and Frank A. Nelson Fulcher Hagler LLP, Augusta, for appellees.
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    Case Number: S10A0881

    Since the non-resident defendant was not a resident of the county where the suit was filed and the appellee did not seek equitable relief common to both the resident and non-resident defendants, the

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-09-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Armstrong, Assistant Public Defender, and Leisa G. Terry, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Edwards, District Attorney, and Jana W. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1609

    The Court could not address a constitutional question that did not appear in the record and was not distinctly ruled upon by the trial

  • Mattox v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-09-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donna A. Seagraves, Jefferson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Leslie S. Jones, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1794

    The state was not required to show a substantial step toward committing and the evidence presented at trial authorized the jury to infer that the defendant had the requisite intent to

  • Fulton County, Ga. V. T-Mobile, South LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. David Ware, County Attorney, and Jerolyn W. Ferrari County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy J. Peaden, Kristine M. Brown, Clark R. Calhoun Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0913

    The 9-1-1 charge, which the county imposed on wireless telephone service providers was a tax and a wireless telephone provider was entitled to a refund for charges paid for all of its prepaid cust

  • Watts v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian K. Ross, Covington, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, and Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1383

    Defense counsel's decision not to impeach the defendant's wife with evidence of her prior convictions was a matter of trial ta

  • Hollie v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Yurachek & Assocs. LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Jimmie E. Baggett Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G1578

    O.C.G.A. § 42-1-12 contains no language expressly prohibiting the trial court from imposing sex offender registration as a probation condition upon the defendant's convictions for aggravated child m

  • Allen v. Santana

    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward R. Downs Jr., Riverdale, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephanie S. Moore, Riverdale, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0717

    Res judicata did not bar the appellee's suit for a writ of possession to a vehicle or his suit to collect on a secured debt, because no court of competent jurisdiction previously adjudicated the me

  • Lamb v. Javed

    Publication Date: 2010-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wayne Grant, Kimberly W. Grant Wayne Grant PC, and L. Lin Wood Jr. Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hunter S. Allen Jr., Simuel F. Doster Jr. and Gary R. McCain Allen McCain & O'Mahony PC, and Ashley D. Phillips Hall Booth Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A2234

    The trial s judgment should not be disturbed, because the plaintiffs did not show any error or basis for reversal, nor any error in the transfer of the case to the trial

  • April 14, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

    New Compact With Governor Divests County Bars of Appointments Vetting

    Gov. Chris Christie has decided to cut county bar vetting committees out of the judicial and prosecutorial selection process and the State Bar Association has agreed to go along, erasing a central

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  • Georgia State Licensing Bd. for Residential and Gen. Contractors v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Janet B. Wray, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Reagan W. Dean and Scarlett Elliott, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal J. Callahan Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan LLC and Robert R. Lomax Marchetti & Lomax LLP, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1831

    Preserving the status quo is the only appropriate purpose for the grant of an interlocutory injunction and the injunction in this case operated oppressively on the defendant county, the Board and th