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  • Bright v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-01-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Angela B. Dillon Brown & Gill LLC, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Deborah D. Wellborn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and David A. Zisook, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1735

    Three eyewitnesses identified the defendant as the gunman who shot and killed one victim, and the aggravated assault victim identified the defendant as the gunman who sho

  • November 27, 2012 |

    The IC Top 20: The most important news stories of 2012

    A roundup of 20 headline-making stories from the past year that in-house counsel couldnt afford to miss.

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  • Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc. v. Forsyth Cnty.

    Publication Date: 2012-11-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Thompson Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia Barmeyer, Lewis Jones King & Spalding, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, and John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0979

    The superior court erred in elevating the status of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division's implementation procedures to that of a formal rule when it directed the ALJ, on remand, to apply t

  • November 12, 2012 | National Law Journal

    R. Ted Cruz: A retrospective

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  • September 23, 2012 |

    The 2012 Transformative Leadership Award winners

    These trailblazers are making a difference for women and minorities in-house and across the legal profession

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  • August 22, 2012 |

    Your Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to-do list

    Several health care reform deadlines are quickly approaching

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  • Humphrey v. Lewis

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Richard Tangum, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul E. Greenwalt III, Ann H. MacDonald and Heidi Oertle Schiff Hardin LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0154

    The defendant was not entitled to habeas relief because he could not show that withheld evidence had a reasonable probability of affecting the outcome of his

  • Ortiz v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Hasty, Katherine M. Mason and David V. Weber Public Defender's Office, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel H. Altman, District Attorney, Kelly A. Jenkins, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine R. Thrower, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0433

    One conviction for aggravated assault should have merged into the defendant's malice murder conviction, as there was no deliberate interval between a shot to the first victim's arm and the fatal sho

  • Littlefield Constr. Co. v. Bozeman

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George T. Talley and Edward F. Preston Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Keenan R. S. Nix, Christopher J. Graddock Morgan & Morgan PA, Atlanta, Scott C. Crowley and Bobby L. Scott Day Crowley LLC, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A2363

    The employer did not produce uncontradicted evidence that his employee was not acting within the scope of his employment when he rear-ended the plaintiff's ve

  • September 2, 2011 | The American Lawyer

    From One Bankrupt Firm to Another: Brobeck Asks Heller For $471,000

    In the course of its nearly decade-old bankruptcy, the $470,988 settlement that Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's estate proposed late last month won't change the course of its Chapt

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