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  • Garden Hills Civic Assoc. Inc. v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin and Mary C. Cooney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David D. Blum City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Carl E. Westmoreland Jr. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Charles N. Pursley Jr., Christian F. Torgrimson Pursley, Howell, Lowery & Meeks LLC, Atlanta, and Thomas A. Bowman Maddox, Nix, Bowman & Zoeckler, Conyers, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Matthew D. Gansereit Allen, Kopet & Boyd PLLC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0069

    Civic association's motion for an interlocutory injunction to prevent MARTA from implementing a land development agreement is d

  • Welker v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter D. Johnson, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A1866

    Given evidence that the murder victim made several death threats, the trial court did not reversibly err in excluding additional evidence that he threatened to pistol whip an unidentified p

  • Ward v. Department of Human Resources

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jackson E. Cox II, Waynesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Katherine S. Davis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Charles Cash Jr., McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G0604

    The Department of Human Resources has no authority to file a petition to establish a parent's child support obligation where that obligation has already been deter

  • Gibson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0790

    The trial court's inquiry into the numerical division of the deadlocked did not violate the defendant's right to a fair and impartial

  • Heidler v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, and Alice C. Stewart, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Alison B. Vrolijk, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, and Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00P0808

    The defendant was not harmed by the trial court's erroneous charge that a defendant will not receive a death sentence if he is found guilty but mentally ret

  • Dean v. Tabsum Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Falanga Falanga & Chalker and Allen E. Bates Allen E. Bates & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce A. Taylor Jr. Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Mark L. Stuckey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1331

    O.C.G.A. § 50-21-28 establishes venue in suits against the state, even if the state is not the sole tortf

  • State v. Freeman

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarkesville, and Robert D. Cullifer, Assistant District Attorney, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce S. Harvey, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1108

    The defendant's convictions for being a party to the felony murder and for hindering the apprehension of the murderer were mutually excl

  • Thompson v. Ezor

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hunter S. Allen Jr., Scott A. Miller, Gary R. McCain Allen, Weathington & Reeves PC, and Michael D. Flint Krevolin & Horst LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Samuel S. Olens Ezor & Olens PC, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00G0613

    The self-contradictory testimony rule does not apply to the testimony of non-party expert witn

  • Drake v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Penny D. Furr, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, George W.K. Snyder, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0699

    The trial court correctly recharged the jury after erroneously charging that the jury could not consider voluntary manslaughter until after it ruled out malice and felony m

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme