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  • Ross v. State

    Publication Date: 2015-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark A. Yurachek Yurachek Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Emily R. Chambers Alston Bird LLP, and Gerald R. Weber Jr., Atlanta. Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Lindsay H. Burton, Wanda L. Vance, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S14A1278

    Cell phone "tower dump" records were properly admitted as evidence in the defendant's murder trial, since the defendant stated at trial that she did not object to the admission and, regardless, she

  • Avery v. State of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles K. McKnight Jr. and Gary J. Toman Nations, Toman & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Donald R. Donovan, District Attorney, Steven J. Messinger, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Dallas, James R. Woodward Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, William T. Cable Jr., James J. Phillips Talley, Richardson & Cable PA, Dallas, Norman S. Fletcher, and Lee B. Carter Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Rome, for appellees.
    Case Number: S14A0792

    The trial court did not err in validating a $3.6M bond to be issued by the county Airport Authority for use in widening and extending the taxiway at the county airport to accommodate commercial pass

  • 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

  • Leibel v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Goldman, Christine L. Mast and Joseph H. Wieseman Hawkins, Parnell, Thackston & Young LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird Bird, Loechl, Brittain & McCants, Atlanta, Jenny E. Jensen and Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G0557

    Expert testimony as to causation is not appropriate in a legal malpractice

  • 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