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  • Smith v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Oliver J. Browning Jr., Buchanan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Brooks Jr., District Attorney, Craig E. Miller, Assistant District Attorney, Buchanan, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0224

    An officer pursuing the defendant, an escaped prisoner, collided with another car at an intersection, killing the vehicle's d

  • Expedia Inc. v. City of Columbus

    Publication Date: 2009-06-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry A. Buchanan, Benjamin A. Land Buchanan & Land LLP, Columbus, Edward K. Smith and Robin A. Schmahl Jones Day, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William U. Norwood III, Michael L. McGlamry, Neal K. Pope, Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Robert M. Travis, John R. Bielema Jr. Bryan Cave Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III and Paul Kilpatrick Jr. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0567

    The trial court did not err in basing hotel occupancy taxes, which an on-line travel company owes to the city of Columbus, on the hotel rate it charges to its customers, rather than the lower wholes

  • City of Atlanta v. Hotels.com LLP

    Publication Date: 2009-04-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles N. Pope, R. Timothy Morrison, Wade H. Tomlinson III, Neal K. Pope, William U. Norwood III, Michael L. McGlamry Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Robert M. Travis, John R. Bielema Jr. and L. Lin Wood Jr. Bryan, Cave, Powell Goldstein LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Emmett J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Edward K. Smith, Robin A. Schmahl Jones Day, Atlanta, Carol L. Morris, Alpharetta, James P. Karen, Deborah S. Sloan Jones Day, Dallas, Texas, David F. McDoweel Morrison & Foerster, Darrel J. Hieber Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Los Angeles, Calif., Karen L. Valihura Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Willington, DE, Elizabeth B. Herrington McDermott, Will & Emery LLP and David J. Stagman Katten, Muchin & Rosenman LLP, Chicago, Ill., for appellee. Amicus appellant: Robert C. Lamar, David W. Davenport Lamar, Archer & Cofrin LLP, John W. Crongeyer Vroon & Crongeyer LLP, Susan J. Moore, Ted C. Baggett Georgia Municipal Ass'n, Kevin A. Ross, James F. Grubiak, Michele L. NeSmith, Atlanta, Walter J. Gordon Sr. The Gordon Law Firm, Hartwell, David C. Archer Archer & Lovell PC, Cartersville, Robert M. Brinson, Norman S. Fletcher, J. Anderson Davis, Samuel L. Lucas and Ansel F. Beacham III Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler & Richardson, Rome. Amicus appellee: Charles S. Johnson III and Raymond P. Carpenter Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S08G0568

    The city should not be required to submit to the administrative process set forth in the enabling statutes and hotel t inance, until the threshold legal issue of the applicability of the hotel

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noah H. Pines Ross & Pines LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, John S. Melvin, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1500

    The defendant took the victim's wallet at gunpoint and then fired several shots into the victim's vehicle, killin

  • Presley v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Daniel J. Quinn and Gerald Mason, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1152

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding obse from the courtroom during jury selection due to limited seating and the need to keep potential jurors from intermingling with obse

  • Murrell v. Young

    Publication Date: 2009-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1772

    The record showed that the defendant was represented by counsel at his hearing on his extraordinary motion for new

  • O'Neill v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary V. Bowman, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and David E. Slemons, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G0708

    Even if statement co-conspirator uttered after the conspiracy had ended could be considered, it provided a reasonable alternative to explain the defendant's condition so as to indicate that he may h

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Erickson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0119

    The defendant's convictions did not merge, because the evidence supported a finding that there was an interval between the completed c

  • Henderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Sandra G. Matson, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1478

    Evidence of the movement of the victims from one room to another was not an inherent part of the armed robbery and supported the defendant's kidnapping convi

  • Phillips v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-02-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Noah H. Pines Ross & Pines LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, John S. Melvin, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08A1500

    The defendant took the victim's wallet at gunpoint and then fired several shots into the victim's vehicle, killin