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  • Northway v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles S. Herman Bignault & Carter, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Rafter Ratchford & Rafter LLP, Claude M. Kicklighter Jr., Springfield, and Andrea A. Smart, Rincon, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0492

    The city council failed to state a claim for relief in its petition to remove an elected mayor from o

  • Allen v. Sea Gardens Seafood Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Craig T. Jones Page Perry LLC and Robert B. Jackson IV, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Adam S. Poppell III, Darien, James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, and Mary J. L. Volkert, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1912

    Even if the purported consent judgment could be construed as an order enforcing the parties' settlement agreement, the trial court impermissibly modified the permit provision by eliminating its func

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas B. Ammar Georgia Justice Project, Judith A. O'Brien, Sarah E. Scott, and Tracey K. Ledbetter Southerland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Clark D. Cunningham Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S10A1301

    An eyewitness at the scene identified the defendant as one of the shooters involved with a murder and several aggravated ass

  • Georgia State Licensing Bd. for Residential and Gen. Contractors v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Janet B. Wray, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Reagan W. Dean and Scarlett Elliott, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal J. Callahan Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan LLC and Robert R. Lomax Marchetti & Lomax LLP, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1831

    Preserving the status quo is the only appropriate purpose for the grant of an interlocutory injunction and the injunction in this case operated oppressively on the defendant county, the Board and th

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Emory B. Bazemore, Tybee Island, and Richard M. Darden, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Christine S. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1800

    Confinement, as it relates to the 10-year limitation period for impeaching a witness with a prior felony conviction, does not include that portion of a sentence served while on probation or p

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney and Christine S. Barker, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1733

    The defendant's August 2001 convictions could not be used as proof of a prior felony conviction under OCGA § 16-10-52, since neither those convictions, nor their pre-conviction charges, were the fel

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-10-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
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    Case Number: S08A0889

    The defendant broke into his ex-girlfriend's home, shot his ex-girlfriend and her male companion to death, and took two minor children from the

  • Allen v. Yost

    Publication Date: 2008-01-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S07A1355

    The petitioner's appeal contesting the results of November 8, 2005 election to city council was moot, since the term of office for the seat she sough has now ex

  • Griffin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas L. Kirbo III The Kirbo Law Firm, and Jon V. Forehand Allen & Forehand, Moutrie, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Valdosta, Robert R. Auman, Assistant District Attorney, Thomasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A0385

    O.C.G.A. § 16-5-40 does not preclude a conviction for kidnapping with bodily injury if the bodily injury occurs after the victim's

  • 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