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  • City of Atlanta v. Corey Entertainment Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Jerolyn W. Ferrari and Stacy Y. Cole, Atlanta, for the city of Atlanta. Judson H. Simmons, William V. Hearnburg Jr. Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for Barbara Fouch d/b/a Creative Media Displays of Ga. Michael J. Bowers, J. Matthew Maguire Jr., Alexandra E. Chopin Balch & Bingham LLP, Gregory H. Worthy, John W. Harbin and Roger B. Hatcher Jr. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, for Corey Entertainment Inc. and others.
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    Case Number: S04A0932; S04A0934

    The appellee had the right, under the Open Records Act, to disclosure of the appellant's tax returns, which were used to qualify her for certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enter

  • Phelps v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-10-08
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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, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0704

    The defendant beat the victim to death with a rock and dragged his body into the woods where it was discovered a few weeks

  • Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Savannah v. Stevens

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Balckburn, City Attorney Wiseman, Balckburn & Futrell, Patrick T. O'Connor and Patricia T. Paul Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Timothy F. Callaway III Karsman, Brooks & Callaway, and Harris O'Dell Jr., Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G1536

    An officer who was injured in an accident on her way to work in her own personal vehicle was not entitled to workers' compensation ben

  • Bates v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lucy K. Henry Carey, Jarrard & Walker, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Deal, District Attorney, Jennifer C. Bagwell, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0221

    Trial counsel's presentation of an involuntary manslaughter defense was not deficient where the defendant did not point to any other defense that trial counsel should have pu

  • Mid-Georgia Envtl. Management Group LLLP v. Meriwether County

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James L. Paul, Matthew J. McCoyd Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, Steven M. Fincher and Murray J. Weed Fincher & Hecht LLC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel W. Lee, LaGrange, Dana K. Maine, Kelley R. Purdie Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Thomas H. Morton Morton, Morton & Assocs. LLC, Zebulon for appellees.
    Case Number: S03A1487

    The county could not be compelled to grant approval for the plaintiff to build a solid waste landfill on 240 acres of county property that was not zoned for landfil

  • Farley v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A0017

    Evidence that the defendant shot the victim once in the arm prior to fatally shooting her in the back supported his separate conviction for aggravated as

  • State v. Marlowe

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, and Jeffrey L. Foster, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, for the state. John T. Strauss, Monroe, for Marlowe and Pearson.
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    Case Number: S03G0351; S03G0564

    A defendant who commits multiple crimes during the course of a continuous crime spree may be convicted once for possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime as to every individual victim

  • 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

  • Thompson v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: L. Elizabeth Lane, Macon, and James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Katherine E. K. Lumsden and Amy E. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, Perry, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03G0176

    Proper sufficiency of the evidence review on appeal is limited to evidence actually presented at

  • 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