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  • Ewing v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George O. Lawson Jr. Lawson & Thornton PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Amber A. Robinson and Cleora S. Anderson City of Atlanta Law Dept., Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1988

    The trial court erred in construing the pleadings most favorably to the city and the city's chief of police in dismissing a police lieutenant's petition for a writ of mandamus, seeking to require th

  • Putzel Elec. Contractors Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2006-12-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Napier Murphy and William R. Shelton Jr. Murphy & Sibley PC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry S. Barnett, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Lee Southwell Board of Workers' Compensation, and Mark J. Goodman Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A1039

    The employee's workers' compensation claim for work-related asbestosis was timely filed pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 34-9-281, since he filed it within one year of first learning of the causal connection

  • Richards v. Richards

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph R. Manning, Robert C. Threlkeld and Leslie A. Allen Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Floyd E. Propst III Caldwell & Watson LLP0, John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates & Nolen PC, L. Lamar Mixson, Lisa R. Strauss Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP and Susan A. Chiapetta, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1269

    The plaintiff lacked standing to pursue an individual claim for removal of the trustee of the inter vivos trust, which her ex-husband established for their children's benefit, since the plaintiff wa

  • Brigman v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Koontz Law Office of Dennis C. O'Brien, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1620

    Evidence of prior incidents involving the defendant's domestic partners was admissible in the defendant's trial for crimes against his

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-12-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry R. Pruden, Loganville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Monroe, and Layla V. Hinton, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1662

    The defendant's statement, in which he admitted purchasing crack cocaine on the day that his acquaintance attempted a robbery by sudden snatching, was admissible as part of the res g

  • Allen v. Yost

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kim M. Minix Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III Hodges, Erwin, Hedrick & Coleman LLP, Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, and Edward R. Collier Collier & Gamble, Dawson, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1006

    The city council candidate timely filed her challenge under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524 a to an election she lost by one vote, by filing it on the same day that the recount results were cert

  • Price v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0975

    Defendant's void 5-year sentence on a misdemeanor cruelty to children conviction was reversed as it was not authorized b

  • Hutchens v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Louis M. Turchiarelli, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Allen D. Morris and Wallace W. Rogers Jr., Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1451

    The jury was authorized to find that the victim's lack of resistance was induced by fear, since the victim testified that she was afraid of the defendant as the result of his prior molestation o

  • Banks v. City of Hampton

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard W. Hendrix Finch, McCranie, Brown & Thrash, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Westbury Jr. Mullins, Whalen & Westbury, Griffin, Stephanie K. Jones, Rex, and Steven M. Fincher Fincher & Hecht LLC, Jonesboro, for appellees.
    Case Number: A06A0159

    A party's financial interest in a case cannot be dispositive of whether he or she is a "nominal party" for venue purposes and venue and jurisdiction are not conferred based on the party with the gre

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John K. Gross, Metter, for appellant.
    for defendant: William S. Askew, Swainsboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A0355

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant a he on his motion for new trial, since a he on the motion was scheduled and defendant took no action to waive or abandon the he