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  • Brownlow v. Shofield

    Publication Date: 2003-10-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hardy Gregory Jr. Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, and Thomas W. Tucker Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Daniel W. Hamilton Plunkett, Shepard, Plunkett & Hamilton, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1149

    The state violated Brady by withholding information that the victim shook his head in the negative when the prosecuting attorney asked him 10 days before trial whether the defendant committed a spec

  • State of Ga. v. Heretic Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, John B. Ballard Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State of Georgia. Glenn Zell and Michael Clutter Zell & Zell, Atlanta, for Heretic Inc. Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, and Jeffrey B. Norman, Assistant City Attorney, Atlanta, for the city of Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03A1050; S03A1051

    City and state statutory schemes allowing eating establishment exceptions to the general ban on Sunday alcohol sales by the drink are constitut

  • Perdue v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Jones, Macon, Kirk M. McAlpin Jr., Carlton M. Henson Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Montgomery, Atlanta, and Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael E. Hobbs, Assistant Attorney General, Richard H. Sinkfield, Robert B. Remar, Ashley R. Hurst, Julie K. Bracker Rogers & Hardin LLP, Randi E. Schnell, Jeffrey O. Bramlett and Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: John O. Cole and David G. Oedel Mercer University Law School, Macon. Amicus appellee: Anne S. Emanuel Georgia State University, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, William H. Pryor Jr., Attorney General, Margaret H. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, and Nathan A. Forrester, Solicitor General, Montgomery, Ala.
    Case Number: S03A1154

    Georgia's Governor had no clear right to order the Attorney General to dismiss an appeal he filed on the state's behalf in the United States Supreme

  • Georgia Ports Auth. v. Rickmers Schiffsbeteiligungsges mbH & Co. KG

    Publication Date: 2003-08-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, George S. Zier, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Thomas J. Mahoney Jr., Mary K. Moss Ranitz, Mahoney, Coolidge & Mahoney PC, Savannah, for Georgia Ports Auth. Noble L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs., Robert S. Glenn Jr. and Colin A McRae Hunter, McLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, for Rickmers. Noble L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs., Savannah, for Hines. Other Party Representation: Marc G. Marling, David F. Sipple Hunter, McLean, Exley & Dunn, Fred S. Clark Clark & Clark, Savannah. Gordon D. Schreck Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee, Charleston, S.C. Stephen H. Vengrow Cichanowich, Callan, Deane, New York, NY.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A0190; A03A0191

    The Georgia Ports Authority is immune from federal maritime tort claims under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Consit

  • Bryant v. Hoffman La Roche Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird and Jonathan T. McCants Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard B. North Jr., Matthew B. Lerner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, and Leslie J. Bobo Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0661

    Once a prima facie case for design defect is established, a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that 1 the product is properly manufactured a

  • In re Perry

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K Gene Chapman State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Raymond J. Peery, York, Neb. Sarah B. Akins, Chairperson Review Panel, Savannah. R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough.
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    Case Number: S03Y1496

    An attorney who was convicted in federal court for money laundering and theft was disb

  • In re Gormley

    Publication Date: 2003-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and K. Gene Chapman State Bar of Ga., Atlanta. James J. Gormley III, Manchester, Ky. Eugene M. Benton Benton, Preston & Malcolm PC, Monroe. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03Y1254

    Attorney disbarred after judgment of conviction for felony in West Virginia district court affirmed on a

  • Schneider v. Susquehanna Radio Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Michael K. Jablonski, Marc B. Hershovitz, Atlanta, and C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, for Schneider and Gardner. Sean R. Smith, Edward A. Webb Dow, Lohnes & Albertson PLLC, Atlanta, and Scott D. Dailard Dow, Lohnes & Albertson PLLC, Washington, D.C., for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A02A1654; A02A1655

    The trial court erred in failing to consider whether the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act violates the defendant's right to freedom of s

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-01-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael M. Sheffield, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Niria D. Baggett, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1107

    The arresting officer had probable cause to detain defendant and his co-defendant based on a BOLO issued after an armed robbery at the co-defendant's former place of emplo

  • Terrell v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Strauss, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paige R. Whitaker, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02P0643

    Recent United States Supreme Court case law did not require the state to allege statutory aggravating circumstances in the defendant's indictment or have a grand jury consider statutory aggrav