• Cook v. Glover

    Publication Date: 2014-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Shalen S. Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Michelle Townes, and Jason S. Naunas, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Kevin Tharpe, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13G1127

    The Court of Appeals improperly interpreted 42 U.S.C. § 1396p with respect to whether a Medicaid applicant's purchase of an annuity was subject to an asset transfer pe

  • State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Staton

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cubbedge Snow III, Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Owens, J. Clinton Sumner Jr. Magruder & Sumner and David F. Guldenschuh, Rome, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Clyde E. Rickard III Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Atlanta, and Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Sizemore, Macon.

    Case Number: S09G0348

    The plaintiff was not a named insured and was not entitled to stack the UM coverage in his employer's insurance policies covering two vehicles that were not involved in the underlying car acc

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Christopher R. Johnston, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S05A0268; S05A0269

    The seizure of affidavits from the defendants' jail cells did not violate their Sixth Amendment right to counsel where the defendants prepared the affidavits and disseminated them to o