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  • Meeks v. City of Buford

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony O. Powell Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Gregory D. Jay Chandler & Britt LLC, Buford, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0698

    Plaintiffs had no vested rights to utilize their property in accordance with an unexercised zoning because plaintiffs made no substantial expenditures in rel on the var

  • Durden v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony S. Carter, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Alan A. Cook, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jennifer S. Gill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A0169

    The defendant was not entitled to a mistrial after a witness spontaneously remarked that he took a lie detector test since the witness did not apprise the jury of the results of the test and the tri

  • Wilson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger Jackson & Schiavone, Savannah, and Charles C. Grile, Pooler, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Melanie Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1315

    Defendant acquiesced in an in-chambers conference outside of his presence in which the trial court ruled on the state's motion in l

  • Daniley a/k/a Daniely v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert S. McPhail David & McPhail LLC, Butler, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Mark C. Post, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1606

    Defendant shot and killed the victim after the victim threw a beer bottle a

  • Henry County Record Inc. v. Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. Alex Crumbley Crumbley & Crumbley, McDonough, for Henry County Record. David E. Hudson and N. Shannon G. Lanier Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. Michael A. O'Quinn, David P. Brenskelle and Gary K. Morris, McDonough, for Buttrill and others.
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    Case Number: S01A1271; Sl01A1273

    The county's newly designated legal organ failed to meet the paid circulation requirements of O.C.G.A. § 9-13-14

  • Dye v. Wallace

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Danny L. Durham Durham Law Firm PC, Richard A. Ingram Fleming, Blanchard, Jackson, Ingram & Floyd PC, and Donald H. White Steinberg, Steinberg & White PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James B. Ellington Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley, Augusta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A0625

    The Supreme C truck down Georgia's Rape Confidentiality which is codified at O.C.G.A. § 16-6-23, because the statute was indistinguishable from a Florida statute that the United States Supreme

  • Tumlin v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel A. Summer Summer & Summer, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lydia J. Sartain, District Attorney, Gregory E. Radics, Assistant District Attorney, Gainesville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1197

    Given the overwhelming evidence, it was highly unlikely that the state's citation to an appellate court opinion during closing argument contributed to the guilty ve

  • Georgia Ports Auth. v. Harris

    Publication Date: 2001-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, George S. Zier, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Thomas J. Mahoney Jr., Thomas J. Mahoney III, and Mary K. Moss Ranitz, Mahoney, Coolidge & Mahoney, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas C. Bordeaux Jr. Bordeaux & Abbot, Shari S. Miltiades, Savannah, and Noble L. Boykin Jr. Jones, Boykin, Stacy & Assocs. PC, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellees.
    Case Number: S00G1368

    The 19-year-old blanket disqualification rule for lawyer-legislators who represent clients in civil actions against the state is overruled in favor of an ad hoc conflicts of interest sta

  • Cobb County v. Crusselle

    Publication Date: 2001-06-15
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Garvis L. Sams Jr. and Mitchell K. Greene Sams & Larkin LLP, Marietta, for Crusselle. John D. Thalhimer and T. Bart Gary Freeman, Mathis & Gray LLP, Atlanta, for Cobb County.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0474, S01A0476

    County's development standard requiring approval of sewer systems by registered civil engineers does not unconstitutionally conflict with the practice of land surveying as defined in O.C.G.A. § 43-1

  • Pass v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, and Todd M. Johnson Johnson Law PC, Cohutta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David N. Vaughan Jr. Vaughan & Evans, Cartersville, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0256

    Defendant was not entitled to a new trial based on the fact that one juror saw a defense witness speaking to defendant's f