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  • Heidler v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Garrett Garrett & Gilliard PC, Augusta, Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, and Alice C. Stewart, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Alison B. Vrolijk, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joseph L. Chambers Sr. Prosecuting Attorney's Council of Ga., Smyrna, and Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00P0808

    The defendant was not harmed by the trial court's erroneous charge that a defendant will not receive a death sentence if he is found guilty but mentally ret

  • Dean v. Tabsum Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Falanga Falanga & Chalker and Allen E. Bates Allen E. Bates & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorney General, Bruce A. Taylor Jr. Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Mark L. Stuckey, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00A1331

    O.C.G.A. § 50-21-28 establishes venue in suits against the state, even if the state is not the sole tortf

  • Security Life Ins. Co. of Am. v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2000-09-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Barwick, Teresa W. Roseborough, Robert J. Neis, Amelia T. Rudolph and Carla W. McMillian Sutherland, Asbill & Brennann LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Davis, Gregory, Christy & Forehand, Cordele, William S. Stone and Kevin R. Dean William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, Allen S. Willingham Love & Willingham, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, Atlanta, Thomas C. Alexander Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, Billy N. Jones Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Peter R. Chaffetz, Thomas J. McCormack and Stanley B. Lutz Chadbourne & Parke LLP, New York, NY, Victoria E. Fimea, Washington, DC.
    Case Number: S00G0006

    The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeals' decision in Security Life Ins. Co. v. Clark, 239 Ga. App. 690 1999, holding that it violated the law of the case doctrine on remand from the Supreme