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  • Dukes v. Board of Trustees for the Police Officers Pension Fund

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: T. Joshua Archer, Michael J. Bowers and David G. Michell Balch & Bingham LLP, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Pamela F. Everett, Debra G. Alford and Robert N. Godfrey City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0155

    Because the pension fund board did not have the legal authority to disburse retirement benefits based on prior service, the plaintiff cannot avail himself of the doctrine of estoppel in seeking to c

  • Wimberly v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall M. Clark and Bart G. Altman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1870

    Defendant failed to show how the 38-month delay between his indictment on capital murder charges and his trial was presumptively prejud

  • Stinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Crowe Lane & Crowe PC, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, John B. Johnson III, Ann S. Williams and Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A2554

    The Court of Appeals adopted the Supreme Court's judgment that the defendant did not retain an unqualified right to withdraw his guilty plea after he signed a Drug Court Contract and utilized the b

  • White v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer E. Hildebrand, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0062

    Defendant's wife's statement that the victim probably did not see who shot him was admissible under the necessity exception to the hearsay rule after she invoked the marital priv

  • Cochran v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barry M. Hazen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Andrew J. Saliba, Amy H. McChesney, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith and Ruth M. Bebko, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1633

    The trial court erred in charging that the jury could infer defendant's intent to kill from his use of a deadly w

  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-09-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe

  • Johnson v. Riverdale Anesthesia Assocs. PC

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary Hill Hill & Bleiberg, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . H. Andrew Owen Jr., Amy J. Kolczak Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, and Larry K. Evans Evans & Evans, Griffin, for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Robert P. Monyak, Lucas W. Andrews Love, Willingham, Peters, Gilleland &Monyak, Philip C. Henry Henry, Spiegel, Fried & Milling LLP, Charles A. Mathis Jr. Middleton, Mathis, Adams & Tate PC, Atlanta, J. Vincent Cook Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael, Athens, and Joel O. Wooten Jr. Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Columbus.
    Case Number: S01G1138

    The trial court properly excluded plaintiffs' irrelevant questions regarding what a defense expert would personally have done under the circumstances since the applicable standard of care is one emp

  • Young v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2002-08-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless, Dawn G. Benson and Charles K. Wainright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Frank J. Klosik Jr. and Robert J. McCune Greer, Klosik & Daugherty, Atlanta, for appellee. Neutral Amicus Representation: Antoinette D. Johnson Smolar & Assocs., Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: H. Andrew Owen Jr., Roger E. Harris Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, David A. Cook, William T. Clark, Atlanta, Temple Sellers, Decatur, and Marilyn J. Allen, Marietta.
    Case Number: S01G0589

    The 2-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice claims does not provide for the commencement of the limitation period upon the termination of a health care provider's treatment of a p

  • Luke v. Battle

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Marcus C. Chamblee Center for Prisoners' Legal Assistance, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S02A0088

    The habeas court erred in applying the pipeline rule to the defendant's habeas petition based on the decision in Brewer v. State, 271 Ga. 605 1999, which established a new rule of substantiv

  • Allgood Farm LLC v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2002-07-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cooke & Connelly, Summerville, Phillip A. Bradley & Sheryl L. McCalla McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert C. Palmour Jr. and Johnny R. Dennis Albert Palmour, Summerville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0410

    Defendant did not have superior title in a case involving mineral rights to certain land because plaintiffs' mineral interests predated defendant's ownership of the land by nearly 100 years and defe