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  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. West and Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, for Dawson. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan W. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Robert L. Tsai American Civil Liberties Union, Natsu T. Saito Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, and Amy G. Donnella, St. Davids, Penn.Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Stephen B. Bright Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, and Althea L. Buafo Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for Moore. Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S01A1041, S01A1210

    The future use of electrocution as a means of executing death sentences in Georgia would violate the Georgia Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punis

  • Satterwhite v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis T. Blackmon and Allen M. Trapp Jr., Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Anne C. Allen, Assistant District Attorney, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0536

    The trial court properly admitted defendant's statement about raping a 4-year-old while he was on juvenile probation since the statement was knowing and voluntary under the totality of the circumst

  • Ketchup v. Howard

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linnie L. Darden III Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: David R. Smith Branan, Searcey & Smith, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0987

    The Court of Appeals adopted the common law doctrine of informed consent providing that physicians and dentists have a duty to inform patients of the known material risks of a proposed treatment or

  • Camp v. Eichelkraut

    Publication Date: 2000-11-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A00A1746, A00A1747, A00A1748

    Defendant did not breach a confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with the plaintiff by cooperating with police and fraud investig

  • Schoen v. Cherokee County

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen F. Lanier, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert M. Mahler, Canton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A1670

    The Board of Commissioners did not violate Georgia's Open Meetings Act when it met with the county attorney to discuss a proposed consent order involving pending zoning litig

  • June 5, 2013 | Legal Times

    Ex-Booz Allen In-House Lawyer In D.C. Sues For Gender Discrimination

    A former longtime in-house lawyer at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. is suing the consulting firm for discrimination, claiming the company unjustifiably demoted her and eventually forced her to resi

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  • November 14, 2000 | Legal Times

    McGuireWoods' Man in Washington

    Senator-elect George Allen was just stopping by his Richmond, Va., law office last Wednesday afternoon, but when the elevator door opened on the eighth-floor conference room at McGuireWoods, h

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  • Leonard W. Allen, Plaintiff v. Helen Robinson a/k/a Helen Robinson Cox, Defendant, 10 Civ. 7118 (SAS)

    Publication Date: 2011-11-01
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    Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
    Judge: District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: For Plaintiff: Kamelia Katrina Poppe, Esq., Law Firm of Shaw & Associates, P.C., New York, NY.
    for defendant: For Defendant: Dan Brecher, Esq., Scarinci & Hollenbeck, LLC, New York, NY. *1
    Case Number: 10 Civ. 7118 (SAS)

    Cite as: Allen v. Robinson, 10 Civ. 7118 (SAS), NYLJ 1202520812147, at *1 (SDNY, Decided October 19, 20 11)District Judge Shira A. Scheindlinp class=

  • United States v. Vanvliet

    Publication Date: 2008-09-22
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    Date Filed: 2008-09-17
    Court: 1st Cir.
    Judge: Lipez, Circuit Judge
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    Case Number: 07-1578

    Before Lipez and Howard, Circuit Judges, and DiClerico, *fn1 District Judge.Martin Rob Vanvliet appeals from his conviction and sentence for interstate travel with

  • November 5, 2003 | Legal Times

    Lost in the Mix: Who Is Claude Allen?

    Liberal interest groups painted a target on Claude Allen, but the conservative nominee to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals drew surprisingly few arrows at his Senate confirmation hearing

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