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  • Georgia Department of Human Services, Division of Family and Children Services v. Christopher Steiner

    Publication Date: 2018-07-12
    Practice Area: Constitutional Law | Family Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ross Warren Bergethon, Annette M. Cowart, Sarah Hawkins Warren, Penny Hannah, Shalen S. Nelson, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Victoria Cuneo Powell (Department of Law), Atlanta; Kenneth Gene Lawrence (Turner & Lawrence PC), Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph Scott Key, Kayci Nicole Dennis (Miller & Key PA), McDonough, for appellee. Andrew Santos Fleischman (Ross & Pines LLC), Atlanta; Laura D. Hogue (Hogue & Hogue LLP), Macon; Charles R. Bliss, Mara Leah Block (Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc), Atlanta; Lisa Jane Krisher, Michael Joseph Tafelski, Jamie B.J. Rush (Georgia Legal Services Program), Atlanta; David Alfred Webster, Atlanta, for amicus appellee.
    Case Number: S18A0281

    The superior court erred in finding that Georgia's central child abuse registry is unconstitutional, both on its face and as applied to appellee.

  • Barnett et al. v. Caldwell

    Publication Date: 2018-02-27
    Practice Area: Government | Wrongful Death
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sidney Leighton Moore, III (The Moore Law Firm, P.C.), Atlanta; Shean DeCarlos Williams (The Cochran Firm Atlanta), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cheryl Lynn Haas, Halima Horton, Kurt Eric Lentz, (McGuire Woods LLP), Atlanta; Matthew Allen Fitzgerald (McGuire Woods LLP), Richmond; Phillip L. Hartley (Harben, Hartley & Hawkins, LLP), Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17G0641

    A teacher was entitled to official immunity in a wrongful death suit brought by parents of a child who died in the teacher's classroom while the teacher was out of the room, because the complained-of actions were discretionary and plaintiffs did not present evidence of actual malice or intent to injure.

  • Prothro v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-02-20
    Practice Area: Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason W. Swindle, Sr., Dane M. Garland (Swindle Law Group, PC.), Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Christopher M. Carr, Michael Alexander Oldham (Department of Law), Atlanta; Anne Cobb Allen (Coweta Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Carrollton; Peter J. Skandalakis (Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia), Morrow, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1399

    Defendant failed to prove that he received constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel in his trial on charges of malice murder and other crimes after he killed his grandfather and set his house on fire.

  • Diversified Holdings, LLP v. City of Suwanee

    Publication Date: 2017-12-07
    Practice Area: Administrative Law | Civil Appeals | Land Use and Planning
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Grant
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew Parks Benson (Mahaffey Pickens Tucker, LLP), Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Carothers, Amy Bryant Cowan, Thomas Monroe Mitchell (Carothers & Mitchell, LLC), Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1140

    The trial court properly affirmed a local zoning boards denial of landowner's application to rezone certain property, finding that the denial was not arbitrary or capricious because the propertys current zoning was substantially related to the publics health, safety, morality and welfare.

  • Allen v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-05-22
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    Date Filed: 2002-05-21
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 6
    Judge: Justice Grant
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    Case Number: 06-01-00096-CR

    OPINIONMichael Marion Allen, Sr. was indicted on five charges of aggravated kidnapping, *fn1 two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a HREF="#D*fn

  • Allen v. A & T Transportation Co., Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-02-26
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    Date Filed: 2002-02-22
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 6
    Judge: Justice Grant
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    Case Number: 06-01-00034-CV

    OPINIONTerry Allen and wife, Brenda Allen, individually and as next friends of Matthew Allen, Timothy Allen, and Jennifer Allen, minor children appeal from a summary judgment in connection with his

  • Schumacher v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-12-11
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    Date Filed: 2001-12-10
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 6
    Judge: Justice Grant
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    Case Number: 06-00-00192-CR

    OPINIONPaul Allen Schumacher appeals from his conviction on his guilty plea without a plea bargaining agreement for the offense of escape from custody. In the same proceeding, he also pleaded guilt

  • Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District of Chabers v. Jarrar's Plumbing, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Date Filed: 2002-03-28
    Court: Tex. App. Dist. 6
    Judge: Justice Grant
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    Case Number: 06-01-00030-CV

    OPINIONBoth the plaintiff, Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District of Chambers and Harris Counties, Texas, and the defendant, Jarrar's Plumbing, Inc., appeal the trial court's judgment