• Barrow v. Raffensperger

    Publication Date: 2020-06-15
    Practice Area: Court Administration | Government
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Georgia Supreme Court
    Judge: Presiding Justice Nahmias
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wade H. Tomlinson, III, Charles W. Byrd, George "Buddy" Darden, Michael Jonathan Moore, Michael P Morrill, Elizabeth Studdard White, (Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison & Norwood), Atlanta, S. Lester Tate, III, (Akin & Tate, PC), Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Elizabeth T. Young, Russell David Willard, Andrew Alan Pinson, Christopher M. Carr, Bryan Keith Webb, Elizabeth Ann Penland, (Department of Law), Atlanta, for appellee. Joyce Gist Lewis, Adam Martin Sparks, (Krevolin Horst, LLC), Atlanta, Monica Joy Hanrahan, (Hanrahan Freitag Family Law, LLC), Atlanta, for Amicus Appellant.

    Case Number: S20A1029

    Secretary of State Could Not be Compelled to Hold Election in May For Position of Supreme Court Justice Whose Prospective Resignation In November Was Irrevocable

  • Kirzhner v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-12-14
    Practice Area: Consumer Protection
    Industry: Automotive
    Court: Court of Appeal, 4th District
    Judge: Justice Thompson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: G052551

    Song-Beverly does not require restitution of registration renewal fees

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  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Jesse D. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony L. Axam Axamlaw and Calvin A. Edwards Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A0070

    State v. Crane, 247 Ga. 779 1981, overruled, as the felony murder statute requires only that the defendant's felonious conduct proximately cause the death of another p

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman and Jesse D. Evans, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony L. Axam Axamlaw and Calvin A. Edwards Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S10A0070

    State v. Crane, 247 Ga. 779 1981, overruled, as the felony murder statute requires only that the defendant's felonious conduct proximately cause the death of another p

  • Georgia State Licensing Bd. for Residential and Gen. Contractors v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, Janet B. Wray, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Reagan W. Dean and Scarlett Elliott, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal J. Callahan Waldrep, Mullin & Callahan LLC and Robert R. Lomax Marchetti & Lomax LLP, Columbus, for appellees.

    Case Number: S09A1831

    Preserving the status quo is the only appropriate purpose for the grant of an interlocutory injunction and the injunction in this case operated oppressively on the defendant county, the Board and th

  • Cody v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Eldridge Suggs IV The Suggs Law Firm, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S04A1334

    The trial court erred in granting the state's untimely motion to strike a witness's testimony after granting the defendant's motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evi

  • Bodne v. Bodne

    Publication Date: 2003-11-21
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hope C. Allen and John C. Mayoue Warner, Mayoue, Bates, Nolen & Collar, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S03G0275

    Ormandy v. Odum, 217 Ga. App. 780 1995, and other Georgia cases are overruled to the extent they presume that a custodial parent has a prima facie right to retain custody, unless the objecting paren

  • Piedmont Hosp. Inc. v. Palladino

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Deborah S. Moses Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barry L. Zimmerman, Keith F. Brandon Zimmerman & Assocs., Atlanta, and William C. Anderson Downey & Cleveland LLP, Marietta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S02G1036

    A hospital employee was not acting within the scope of his employment when he continued touching the plaintiff's groin area for his own gratification after he checked the plaintiff's surgical

  • Yancey v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-11-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harold S. Gulliver, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.

    Case Number: S02A0843

    A statement made by an individual who was under suspicion for the crimes in question did not meet the requirements for trustworthiness under the necessity exception to the hearsay