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  • American Home Products Corp. v. Ferrari

    Publication Date: 2008-10-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S07G1708

    The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986 "Vaccine Act", 42 USC §300aa-1 et seq. did not pre-empt the plaintiffs' claims for alleged neurological damage to t

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2008-06-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S08A0215

    The discovery of a weapon labeled for law enforcement use did not exclude the possibility that the weapon was given away or sold on the black m

  • Cuyuch v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carlton C. Carter, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Samuel K. Barger, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0782

    Absent a motive to mislead, a translator's statements should be regarded as statements of the witnesses themselves, not double he

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Mary N. Kimmey, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S07A1091

    Any error in the charge on eyewitness level of certainty was harmless, since the eyewitnesses knew the defendant before the m

  • Fulton County v. Galberaith

    Publication Date: 2007-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Overtis H. Brantley, Steven E. Rosenberg, Sudevi N. Ghosh and Valerie A. Ross Fulton County Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint, Mark W. Forsling Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Wendell K. Willard Willard & Sullivan, Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Laurel E. Henderson Henderson & Hundley PC, Decatur.
    Case Number: S07A0032

    Several sections of the Fulton county zoning ordinance are unconstitutionally broad for declaring that all outdoor signs are presumptively illegal throughout the county, to be exempted only on a cas

  • Head v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-06-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lon P. Kemeness, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard E. Currie, District Attorney, Douglas, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0670

    There was no reasonable probability that the outcome of the defendant's trial would have differed, if his counsel had objected to cumulative testimony about a prior difficulty with one of the vi

  • Underberg v. Southern Alarm Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Franklin, Wesley C. Taulbee Franklin, Taulbee, Rushing, Snipes & Marsh PC, Statesboro, Kathryn H. Pinckney and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: A. Martin Kent, Catherine M. Palumbo Martin Kent PC, and Edgar P. Williams Bouhan, Williams & Levy, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2349

    Factual questions remained as to whether a security service dealer owed the plaintiff a duty to perform a background check on an employee, who worked for the dealer selling home security systems doo

  • Clark v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Sheerer Jr., Vienna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, and Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1311

    Evidence of a separate incident with one victim was admissible to show the defendant's motive, intent and bent of mind, even if the state did not show that the incident preceded the indicted

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony J. Morgese, Woodstock, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Susan K. Treadaway, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2426

    The trial court did not err in refusing to accept the jury's first verdict of guilty with reasonable doubt as an acquittal and in sending the jury out for further delibera

  • Carr v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, and Daniel J. Quinn, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1365

    The defendant waived any objection to being sentenced for both armed robbery and voluntary manslaughter, when he plead guilty in consideration for the dismissal of five other ch