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Danbert v. North Ga. Land Ventures LLC

Publication Date: 2010-07-16
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hines, P. Harris
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Tittle Jr., Hiawassee, for appellant.
for defendant: Lawrence A. Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton LLC, Clayton, and Ronald J. Stay Jr. Stites & Harbison PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
Case Number: S10A0563

The parties presented conflicting evidence as to whether the public could access an easement road, which the appellants own up to the cente

State v. Jackson

Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Nahmias, David E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Jesse D. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
for defendant: Tony L. Axam Axamlaw and Calvin A. Edwards Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S10A0070

State v. Crane, 247 Ga. 779 1981, overruled, as the felony murder statute requires only that the defendant's felonious conduct proximately cause the death of another p

Jones v. State

Publication Date: 2010-06-04
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel D. Morgan, Rome, for appellant.
for defendant: Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, and John A. Tully District Attorney's Office, Rome, for appellee.
Case Number: A10A1298

The state was not required to show that the defendant knew he was within 1,000 feet of public housing to support a conviction under OCGA § 16-13

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Turner Broadcasting System Inc. v. David McDavid

Publication Date: 2010-04-16
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Bernes, Debra
Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Lamberth Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, and Thomas G. Hungar Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
for defendant: Steven J. Rosenwasser, Joshua F. Thorpe and Jill Pryor Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Hugh B. McNatt Balch & Bingham and Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta.
Case Number: A09A2314

There was sufficient evidence for the jury to find an enforceable oral contract, since the defendant made many objective manifestations of intent to be bound, including statements such as we have a

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

Clarke v. Freeman

Publication Date: 2010-04-02
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew M. Scherffius III, Gregory R. Eagle Andrew M. Scherffius PC, Atlanta, and Randy J. Ebersbach Kam, Ebersbach & Lewis, Newnan, for appellant.
for defendant: . Robert D. Ware, Meka B. Ward County Attorney's Office, Ralph I. Knowles Jr., Sheryl L. McCalla Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles & Devine, Theodore Freeman, Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Matthew R. LaVallee Daley, Koster & LaVallee, Atlanta, William T. Mitchell, Karen E. Woodward Cruser & Mitchell, Norcross, Jack R. Hancock and Pamela F. Everett Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park, for appellees. Other party representation: Terry E. Williams, Jason C. Waymire, Buford, Jolanda E. Herring Hollowell Foster & Herring PC, Douglas R. Kertscher Hill, Kertscher & Wharton LLP, Tiffany C. Sellers, Thomas G. Sampson Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Tompkins, Coy J. Johnson Jr. County Attorney's Office, James E. Dearing Jr., Atlanta, and Paul I. Hotchkiss Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Forest Park.
Case Number: A09A2339, A09A2340

The trial court erred in dismissing the appellants' emotional distress claims, because the defendants were aware either of a specific threat to employees in the judge's chambers or of the weapon tha

Merritt v. State

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. David Wolfe and Robert A. Susor L. David Wolfe PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S09A1476

There is no conflict between the term of years sentencing option in O.C.G.A. § §16-6-1 b and 17-10-6.1 and the Court's ruling in State v. Velazquez, 283 Ga. 206 2008 that life without parole cannot

Humphreys v. State

Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Nahmias, David E.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchel D. Durham, Jimmy D. Berry, Marietta, Carl P. Greenberg Georgia Capital Defender, Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, and Holly L. Geerdes Geerdes & Kim LLC, Duluth, for appellant.
for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Teresa M. Schiefer, Assistant Attorney General, and Richard A. Malone Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
Case Number: S09P1428

The statutory aggravating circumstance set forth under O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 10 regarding murders committed for the purpose of avoiding, interfering with, or preventing lawful arrest, does not exten

Mann v. Blalock

Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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Court: Supreme Court
Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas R. Ballard Jr. Fears, Lawrence & Turner PC, Jackson, for appellant.
for defendant: Larry S. Mayfield Smith, Welch & Brittain LLP, Barnesville, for appellee.
Case Number: S09A1804

The trial court erred in finding the administrator's deed from appellant to decedent's nephew conveyed fee simple title, rendering null and void the restriction placed on the property in the deceden