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  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-10-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua D. Earwood, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosemary M. Greene, District Attorney, Cartersville, Stewart D. Bratcher, Assistant District Attorney, Calhoun, 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: S13A1298

    The defendant entered a bookstore, which the victim owned and operated, waited until she was alone, then stabbed her to death, taking rings off of her fingers and money from the cash reg

  • October 24, 2013 | The Recorder

    In Practice: The Slow Death of 'Gentry'

    California law favors arbitration. But its courts have been traditionally hostile to the Federal Arbitration Act. Especially that part about the FAA requiring that "private agreements t

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  • October 21, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

    Associates Class of 2013

    Things just keep looking up for associate hiring at New Jersey’s larger firms. Since 2010, there’s been a steady rise in staffing rates, and it continued this year. Though weR

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  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S13A0687

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding admissible similar transaction evidence of the defendant's prior s lation of a victim whose personal characteristics were similar to the

  • Bell v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-09-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rafe Banks III, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Penny A. Penn, District Attorney, Heather N. Dunn, James A. Dunn, Assistant District Attorneys, Cumming, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0703

    O.C.G.A. § 40-6-270 subsection a's requirements that one must stop at the scene of an accident and identify oneself do not violate a person's right against self-incrimin

  • August 29, 2013 |

    On SEC specialized disclosure rules, court rejects one, upholds another

    Both rulings assessed the SEC rules validity under the two-step framework established in the 1984 Supreme Court case Chevron USA Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council, Inc.

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  • Janasik v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
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    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ashleigh Merchant The Merchant Law Firm PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carmen Smith, Solicitor General, R. Leon Benham, and David Ginsburg, Assistant Solicitors General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0253

    Absent a transcript, the State presumably made the requisite showing for admission of a previous DUI conviction to show the DUI-less safe driving defendant's ' "identity, motive, scheme, bent of min

  • Baugh v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-05-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dell Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Christopher M. Quinn, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0161

    The trial court properly declined the defendant's request for a jury charge on voluntary manslaughter, since the defendant stated that he shot back at the victim out of fear which was "not the same

  • April 24, 2013 | National Law Journal

    Years After Supreme Court Decision, 'Caperton' Continues

    Some Supreme Court cases, like old soldiers, never die, but unlike old soldiers, neither do they fade away. Consider Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company. In 2009, a divided Supreme Court he

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  • March 26, 2013 | FC&S Insurance

    Expanding Content

    Expanding ContentRegular readers of the Insurance Coverage Law Report, which is available both in print and online at http://www.fcandslegal.com/, will…

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