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  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    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

  • Cowart v. Widener

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt, Stebbins & Murray LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Davison, Amy R. Snell Fulcher Hagler LLP, Charles C. Mayers, Augusta, J. Edward Allen Jr. Fortson, Bentley & Griffin PA, Athens, and Henry E. Scrudder Jr. Scrudder, Bass, Quillian, Horlock, Taylor & Lazarus LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1177

    The plaintiffs did not establish that the defendant's failure to render the decedent aid proximately caused his death from natural causes, since they produced no evidence, expert or otherwise, on th

  • State v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2010-07-09
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    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

  • Baker v. Wellstar Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Manton The Manton Law Firm LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry D. Green Jr. and Mary P. Adams Green & Sapp LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Traci G. Courville Oates & Courville, Columbus, and J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Atlanta. Amicus Appellees: Thomas S. Carlock Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Brian W. Looby, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Ass'n of Ga., Simuel F. Doster Jr. and Hunter S. Allen Jr. Allen, McCain & OMahoney PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S10A0994

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a provides that a plaintiff waives his right to privacy with regard to medical records only insofar as they are relevant to a medical condition, which the plaintiff places at iss

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

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    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

  • Lawrence v. Lawrence

    Publication Date: 2009-11-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kice H. Stone Stone & Driggers LLC, Macon, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1370

    The parties' antenuptial agreement was clearly a contract made in contemplation of divorce, not a contract made in contemplation of marriage, thus, the agreement was not subject to O.C.G.A. § 19-3-6

  • In re Shelfer

    Publication Date: 2004-06-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and Elizabeth M. Williamson State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. James E. Spence Jr., Atlanta. James B. Ellington, Chairperson Review Panel, Augusta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S04Y0978

    An attorney who used estate funds for his personal benefit after drafting a client's will naming himself as executor or her estate was suspended for two years with conditions on reinstat

  • Dawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. West and Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, for Dawson. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Peggy A. Katz, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan W. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Robert L. Tsai American Civil Liberties Union, Natsu T. Saito Georgia State Univ., Atlanta, and Amy G. Donnella, St. Davids, Penn.Michael Mears, MultiCounty Public Defender, Stephen B. Bright Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, and Althea L. Buafo Buafo & Assocs., Macon, for Moore. Timothy G. Vaughn, District Attorney, Eastman, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for the state. Amicus appellant: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore, Atlanta.
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    Case Number: S01A1041, S01A1210

    The future use of electrocution as a means of executing death sentences in Georgia would violate the Georgia Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punis

  • Fox v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Nuckolls, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, and Cecelia M. Harris, Assistant District Attorney, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99G0561

    Defendant's waiver of his right against unreasonable searches and seizures as a special condition of probation was invalid, since it was not part of his plea bargain agreement and a parole officer t