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  • GHG Inc. v. Bryan

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent D. Sowerby, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Adam S. Poppell III, Darien, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0630

    The plaintiffs' quiet title petition was not subject to dismissal for failure to state a claim where plaintiffs established a claim of current title and met the statutory require

  • Rodriguez v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-07-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Norman H. Cuadra, Lawrence J. Zimmerman and Jason J. Kesser, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor, Akintunde A. Akinyele and Courtney L. Johnson, Assistant Solicitors, Decatur, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Jose A. Delcampo, Keri P. Ware Nix, Delcampo, Thornton & Graddock, Decatur, and Douglas W. McDonald Jr. McDonald & Cody LLC, Cornelia.
    Case Number: S02A0412

    O.C.G.A. § 249-103, which requires officers to obtain a qualified interpreter when taking a hearing impaired person into custody, does not violate equal protection by failing to provide such accomm

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Demetria N. Williams DeKalb County Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Elisabeth G. Macnamara, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1426

    The trial court did not err in excluding unrelated evidence that the murder victim abused his girlfriend and may have kidnapped her at one

  • Young v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellee. Neutral Amicus Representation: Antoinette D. Johnson Smolar & Assocs., Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, David A. Cook, William T. Clark, Atlanta, Temple Sellers, Decatur, and Marilyn J. Allen, Marietta.
    Case Number: S01G0589

    The 2-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice claims does not provide for the commencement of the limitation period upon the termination of a health care provider's treatment of a p

  • Hale v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert J. Storms, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0069

    Defense counsel was not deficient for failing to procure a psychiatric evaluation or challenge defendant's competency to stand trial, despite defendant's heart condition and diabetes, since defendan

  • Mangum v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce S. Harvey and David S. West, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, George W. K. Snyder Jr., Senior Assistant District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0592

    The trial court improperly limited defendant's cross-examination of several of the state's juvenile witnesses as to whether they had pending adjudications that would affect their credib

  • Mitchell v. Mitchell

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Robert Melton Haygood, Lynch, Harris & Melton LLP, Forsyth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Karen K. Martin Martin & Martin, Barnesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A1177

    The trial court chose the most equitable solution to a conflict involving five children and five lots when the trial court awarded defendants the property upon which their house was located, even th

  • Lucas v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald J. Jordan Adams, Jordan & Treadwell PC, Brian G. Combs, Milledgeville, and Patrick Keenan Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fredric D. Bright, District Attorney, Gray, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Karen A. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Center, Michael Mears MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta, and Linda A. Malone William and Mary College Sch. of Law, Williamsburg, Va.
    Case Number: S01P1069

    The trial court's error in allowing the state's opening comments and testimony about the victims' worth and the impact of their deaths was harmless in light of the state's corroborating evidence tha

  • Butler v. Turner

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. Stubbs III Banks, Stubbs, Neville & Cunat LLP, Cumming, and Dana A. Azar, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Browning and Carla F. Bright Browning & Tanksley, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus appellants: Ashley Carraway Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Nancy R. Lindbloom Georgia Legal Servs. Program Inc., David A. Webster, Eric G. Kocher, Vicky O. Kimbrell, Lisa J. Krisher and Phyllis J. Holmen, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00G1928

    The consent judgment that defendant signed in a prior Department of Human Resources suit for child support was not res judicata as to his representations of his income because plaintiff was not a p

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Willie C. Weaver, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Kenneth A. Dasher, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1640

    Defendant shot and killed a pizza store employee during a ro