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  • Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wallace C. Clayton II Jones, Morrison & Womack PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0977

    An eyewitness identified the defendant as the shooter who fired a handgun at partygoers as they left a house party, fatally striking one of

  • Rutter v. Rutter

    Publication Date: 2013-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam M. Hames The Hames Law Firm LLC, Atlanta, Jennifer S. Gill, and Roger M. Johnson Bray & Johnson, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Vic B. Hill, Brad E. MacDonald Hill-MacDonald LLC, Robert K. Abbott Jr., and Parri S. Abbott Abbott & Abbott, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Wayne R. Allen Office of Legislative Counsel, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12G1915

    Senate Bill 316 Ga. L. 2000, p. 875, § 2 eliminated the curtilage exception set forth in O.C.G.A. § 16-11-6

  • Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys. v. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Sch. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Cox and Christopher J. Hoffman Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Rocco E. Testani and Lee A. Peifer Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: John J. Park Jr., Atlanta, Mariem L. Hubbard, Joshua P. Thompson, and Lana Harfoush Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Calif.
    Case Number: S13A0987

    The plain language of the statutory funding formula set out in the Charter Schools Act of 1998, O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2068.1 subsection c, does not authorize a school system to deduct its unfunded pension

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Arthur C. Walton, Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0979

    The defendant did not show that his counsel was ineffective in failing to object to the State's cross-examination of a defense character witness regarding his knowledge of the defendant's arrest rec

  • Von Thomas v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David C. Abbott The Abbott Law Firm PC, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, and Wanda L. Vance, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13G0198

    The defendant could not assert a claim that his conviction was unlawful in an untimely motion to vacate his sentence simply by framing it as a claim that his sentence was

  • Red Zone LLC v. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, 650318/11

    Publication Date: 2013-09-05
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    Court: Supreme Court, New York County, Part 45
    Judge: Justice Melvin L. Schweitzer.
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    Case Number: 650318/11

    Cite as: Red Zone LLC v. Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, 650318/11, NYLJ 1202617988423, at *1 (Sup. NY, Decided August 27, 2013) 650318/11

  • Shekhawat v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2013-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Adam L. Appel, Kim M. Ruder Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Annarita M. Busbee, and Derrick L. Bingham Owen Gleaton Egan Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Amicus Appellant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Claude M. Sitton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Floyd M. Taylor, David E. Hudson, James V. Painter Hull Barrett PC, and James S. V. Weston Trotter Jones LLP, Augusta. Vincent A. Toreno Ken David & Associates LLC, Atlanta, Gary B. Blasingame, Andrew J. Hill III, and Josh B. Wages Blasingame Burch Garrard & Ashley PC, Athens, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12G0552

    The sole issue in determining whether an individual state employee may be liable as a defendant in a tort suit is whether the employee was acting within the scope of his employment with the state in

  • Scarborough v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2013-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian C. Ranck Sanders & Ranck PC, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Cornwell Jr. Cornwell Law Offices, Toccoa, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13A0060

    The trial court erred in setting aside the county Board of Commissioners' dec to abandon a county road, as it failed to accord proper deference to the Board's dec

  • Boothe v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III Public Defender's Office, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kathryn L. Powers, Jason B. Green, Assistant District Attorneys, Jonesboro, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0042

    Any potential error in the admission of photocopies of police sketches, rather than the original sketches, was harmless in light of the other evidence of the defendant's

  • Malloy v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thelma W. C. Moore Moore Law LLC, Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, and Mary K. Durant Durant Law LLC, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Nancy B. Allstrom, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Henry A. Hibbert, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Keith E. Adams, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0188

    An administrative law judge's civil ruling did not preclude the State's subsequent criminal prosecution of the defendant for two counts of Medicaid