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  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brady S. McFalls, John G. Parker and Joseph C. Sharp Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Marcia M. Ernst, William Van Hearnburg Jr. Smith Gambrell Russell LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Deputy Attorney General, and Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Douglas D. Selph, Rachel K. Iverson Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, William C. McFee Jr. Schulten, Ward & Turner LLP, Atlanta, and Carol V. Clark McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb, Nichols & Clark, Roswell.
    Case Number: S04G1536

    A Statement of Partne filed with the state is conclusive as to the existence of a partne

  • Folsom v. City of Jasper

    Publication Date: 2005-05-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel and Guy H. Weiss Casey Gilson Leibel PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Will H. Pickett Jr. Pickett, Pickett & Pickett PC, Jasper, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A0021

    The city of Jasper's Alcoholic Beverages Ordinance contains a blanket prohibition against truthful, non-misleading speech about a lawful product in violation of the First Amen

  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Martin Martin Bros. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Todd E. Naugle, Bonnie K. Smith, Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorneys, Jonesboro, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. and Michael Mears Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0071

    Case remanded with direction for the trial court to reinstate existing counsel in defendant's pending death penalty prosec

  • Carnett's Inc. v. Hammond

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Terry, Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Atlanta, Mark W. Wortham and Richard C. Foster Hicks, Casey & Barber PC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Marc B. Hershovitz PC, Michael K. Jablonski, Atlanta, and Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Mark A. Barber and Annette F. Simelaro Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta. Amicus Appellee: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Sidney T. Barrett Jr., Daniel S. Walsh, Assistant Attorneys General, and Douglas R. Kertscher Hill, Kertscher & Wharton LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1241

    FCC regulations provide that express permission to receive a fax is deemed to be given by recipients who have an existing business relationship with the s

  • Preer v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2005-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Lea and Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William P. Rowe III, Ellijay, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A2035

    The defendant's properly filed petition for habeas relief could be transferred to his new county of dete

  • Pawnmart Inc. v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Fred T. Stokes Fred Stokes & Assocs., Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karen G. Thomas, County Attorney, Kristina H. Blum and Michael Van Stephens II Gwinnett County Law Dep't, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A2106

    Georgia's general laws regulating pawnbrokers do not pre-empt a county ordinance, which requires fingerprints and digital photos from persons pawning property, since the ordinance is an authorized u

  • Morgan v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Virginia W. Tinkler and James D. Michael, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Covington, David E. Boyle, Assistant District Attorney, Monroe, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1714

    The trial court's error in charging that the jury could infer intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon was harmless, given the overwhelming evidence of defendant's m

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alex L. Zipperer and Eric R. Gotwalt Zipperer, Lorberbaum & Beauvais PC, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Ann M. Elmore, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1970

    The trial court's error in charging that the jury could infer intent to kill from the use of a deadly weapon was harmless, given the overwhelming evidence of defendant's m

  • Grant v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John R. Martin Martin Bros. PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Todd E. Naugle, Bonnie K. Smith, Assistant District Attorneys, and John A. Beall IV, Jonesboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Attorney General, and Theresa A. Hood, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. and Michael Mears Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04A1654, S04A1805

    The defendant and the court system have a strong interest in sustaining an existing, close relationship between a death penalty defendant and his counsel and that interest cannot be overcome by a tr

  • Hines v. Georgia Ports Auth.

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nobel L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs. PC, for Hines and others. Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Atlanta, Mary K. Moss, Thomas Mahoney Jr., Thomas J. Mahoney III Ranitz, Mahoney, Mahoney & Moss PC, Savannah, for the Georgia Ports Authority and others. Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Marc G. Marling, David F. Sipple, Robert S. Glenn Jr., Colin A. B. McRae Hunter MacLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Gordon D. Schreck Buist, Moore, Smythe & McGee PA, Charleston, SC, and Stephen H. Vengrow Cichanowich, Callan, Keane, Venegrow & Texto, New York, NY, for Rickmers and others. Amicus appellant: John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta, in S03G1848.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S03G1813; S03G1821; S03G1820; S03G1848

    The Georgia Ports Authority is not a state arm entitled to immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution with regard to the plaintiffs' federal maritime torts c