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  • Cox v. Barber

    Publication Date: 2002-08-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nickolas P. Chilivis, John K. Larkins Jr. Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever LLP, Charles S. Baker and Harold S. Gulliver, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1818

    The 1-year residency requirement for Georgia Public Service Commission candidates is constitut

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin Gough, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Woodbine, and Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0525

    The trial court properly considered defendant's three prior habitual violator convictions for enhancement of sente

  • Richardson v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Kevin W. Drummond and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1103

    Application of Georgia's rape-shield statute to irrelevant evidence about the victim's relationship with her ex-boyfriend did not violate the defendant's confrontation

  • Carroll v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kirk E. Gilliard Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0354

    The defendant's inquiry as to how he would be appointed a lawyer was not an unambiguous request for counsel requiring the cessation of custodial questi

  • Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP v. Six Flags Over Ga. LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Buford, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, John J. Dalton Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler and Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, N.Y., for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Butler Jr., George W. Fryhofer III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Albert M. Pearson III Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, H. Lamar Mixson, Michael B. Terry, Nancy J. Walsh and Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Davidson & Tucker LLP, Duluth.
    Case Number: A00A0120

    The Court of Appeals overruled Kent v. A. O. White Jr., Consulting Engineers PC, A01A0756 1/29/02, 02 FCDR 374, to the extent that it held that the Georgia Supreme Court adopted the standard set for

  • Southern Intermodal Logistics Inc. v. D. J. Powers Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Brice Ladson Ladson & Suthers LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia T. Paul Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Kim T. Stephens, Athens, Robert E. Spears Jr. Greenberg & Traurig LLP, and Michael J. King, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1618

    A jury question remained as to when plaintiff discovered or should have discovered its injury from the defendants' alleged wrongful co

  • Bruce v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0623

    An issue of state procedural law which was decided in a subsequent case could not be the basis for a collateral attack, such as defendant's petition for habeas r

  • Dye v. Wallace

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny L. Durham Durham Law Firm PC, Richard A. Ingram Fleming, Blanchard, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd PC, and Donald H. White Steinberg, Steinberg & White PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James B. Ellington Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0625

    The Supreme C truck down Georgia's Rape Confidentiality which is codified at O.C.G.A. § 16-6-23, because the statute was indistinguishable from a Florida statute that the United States Supreme

  • Taylor v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen P. Harrison Harrison & Harrison, and Vallerina F. Day Parker & Day, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, Thomas R. McBerry, Chief Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, and Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0930

    The fruit of defendant's voluntary, but Miranda-tainted statement was not subject to the exclusionary rule under Georgi

  • Morrison v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-08-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shandor S. Badaruddin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Thomas A. Cole and Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1177

    Repetitive Bruton objections to testimony about the co-defendants' statements would have served no purpose because defendant claimed he was coerced into participating in the c