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  • Gliemmo v. Cousineau

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Traci G. Courville, Samuel W. Oates Jr. Oates & Courville, Columbus, Michael B. Terry, Nicole G. Iannarone and Kamal Ghali Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Roger S. Sumrall Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Ashley E. Sexton and Wade K. Copeland Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLPAtlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A1807

    O.C.G.A. § 51-1-29.5 c, which limits the liability of physicians and health care providers for treatment immediately following evaluation or treatment of a patient in an emergency department, is a

  • Williams v. Hall

    Publication Date: 2009-11-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Brian P. Adams Sell & Melton, LLP, Macon, and William A. Bonner III, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0973

    The habeas court erred in granting the defendant's petition based on an issue that he did not raise in his petition or at the he

  • 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

  • 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

  • Acevedo v. Kim f/k/a Acevedo

    Publication Date: 2008-11-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
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    Case Number: S08A0798

    Weaver v. Jones, 260 Ga. 493 1990 decided the question of whether father's petition seeking a declaratory judgment as to his obligation for past child support stated a claim for r

  • Humphrey v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Mary Beth Westmoreland, Deputy Attorney General, And Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Humphrey, Warden in S07A1481. Brenda J. Bernstein The Bernstein Firm PC, Rodney S. Zell Zell & Zell PC, Atlanta, and Franklin J. Hogue Hogue & Hogue, Macon, for Wilson. James D. McDade, District Attorney, Douglasville, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for the State in S07A1606. Amicus appellee: David Balser McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Cleve L. Molette, East Point.
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    Case Number: S07A1481; S07A1606

    The defendant's 10-year sentence without possibility of parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old when defendant was 17 constituted cruel and unusual punis

  • Greer v. Thompson

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Mark A. Gilbert, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James N. Finkelstein, Albany, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1431

    The trial court did not improperly express an opinion when it read two notes from the jury and stated that someone offered a bribe on the defendant's b

  • Walker v. State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Neil L. Wilkinson and Paul T. Wright Wilkinson & Wright LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Susan K. Treadaway, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2044

    The trial court properly applied the preponderance of evidence standard of proof, since forfeiture cases are civil procee

  • Salmeron v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-07-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ricky W. Morris Jr., McDonough, and J. Scott Key Sexton, Key & Hendrix PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tommy K. Floyd, District Attorney, and Blair D. Mahaffey, Assistant District Attorney, McDonough, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1394

    The arresting officer did not unreasonably expand the scope or dur of a valid traffic stop when he asked for and was granted permission to search the defendant's car while he was issuing a cit

  • Rabun County v. Mountain Creeks Estates LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald A. Cronin Jr. O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Cummings II Cummings & Dillard, Clayton, T. Michael Tennant, A. McCampbell Gibson and Christina H. Eikhoff Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0042; S06A0043

    The county was entitled to immunity with regard to a subdivision's claim for damages arising out of the county's refusal to accept ownership of the subdivision's roads, because the subdivision did n