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  • De La Cruz v. The State

    Publication Date: 2018-03-16
    Practice Area: Criminal Appeals | Criminal Law
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    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Hunstein
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary Terry Benton, Derin Bronson Dickerson, Francisco Gonzalez-Burgos, Tejas Surendra Patel, Kacy Brake, Emily Catherine Hootkins, Andrew J. Liebler, Andrew M. Brown (Alston & Bird LLP), Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Paula Khristian Smith, Mary Catherine Greaber, Elizabeth Haase Brock, Christopher M. Carr (Department of Law), Atlanta; John Allen Lawson, Richard Lowery Perryman III (Alapaha Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office), Nashville; Bianca Plair Goodman (Muscogee County Solicitor General's Office), Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S17A1887

    21-Year Delay in Resolving Motion for New Trial Did Not Violate Defendant's Due Process Rights

  • The Landings Ass'n Inc v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S11G1263; S11G1277

    The owners of a planned resid development were entitled to summary judgment in a premises liability suit arising from a fatal alligator attack because the victim had equal knowledge of the po

  • 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

  • Turner v. Flournoy

    Publication Date: 2004-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scot E. Hitch Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, Ray L. Allison Denney, Pease, Allison & Kirk, Jaimie B. DeLoach and Clifton C. Fay, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry A. Buchanan Buchanan & Land, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1730

    In the absence of a transcript, competent evidence presumably supported the trial court's dec to permanently enjoin development of a subdiv

  • Buckhorn Ventures LLC v. Forsyth County, Ga.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter M. Degnan and Harold Buckley Jr. Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert S. Stubbs III Banks, Stubbs & Neville, Kenneth E. Jarrard Jarrard & Davis LLP and Mitchell M. McKinney, Cumming, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0152

    O.C.G.A. § 36-30-3 a prohibits councils from binding themselves or their successors so as to prevent legislation in matters of municipal gove

  • Albany Urology Clinic PC v. Cleveland

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas S. Chambless and Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, George P. Donaldson III Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, and Wade H. Coleman Tillman, McTier, Coleman, Talley, Newberry & Kurrie, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William S. Stone and T. Craig Ernest William S. Stone PC, Blakely, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Harold G. Clarke Troutman Sanders, Thomas S. Carlock Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, John E. Hall Jr., Jonathan Marigliano Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Robert E. Whitley, William M. Earnest Jr. Thrasher, Whitley, Hampton & Morgan, Jack S. Schroder Jr., Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, David A. Cook, William T. Clark Medical Ass'n of Ga., Atlanta, David H. Tisinger, Richard G. Tisinger Jr. Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton, Leonard A. Nelson and E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr. MD American Med. Ass'n, Chicago, Ill.
    Case Number: S99G0600

    Urologist was not liable to plaintiff for fraud since he had no duty to disclose his use of illegal drugs or any other aspect of his personal life that might adversely impact his professional perfor

  • December 20, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Tough race, tougher tactics

    Kenneth S. Canfield, a key campaign adviser who helped Carol W. Hunstein keep her seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia this year, recalled a moment that crystallized what most worried Hunstei

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  • September 5, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Hunstein: Law, not 'ideology,' is guide

    Editor's Note: Nine weeks from today, Georgians will decide whether Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein should keep her seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia-or if J. Michael Wiggins, a former

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  • September 6, 2006 | Daily Report Online

    Latecomer to law, Wiggins on fast track

    On Tuesday, the Daily Report published stories about Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein, who is running to keep her seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Today we look at the man challenging

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  • June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

    Court axes forfeiture law

    The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday declared unconstitutional a law that allows state prosecutors to seize all of a racketeering suspect's assets without first affording the suspect the ch

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