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  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Bearden Jr., Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0040

    Trial counsel was not ineffective in failing to raise constitutional challenges to the mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years imprisonment without parole for kidnapping a victim less than 14 year

  • Jenkins v. Wachovia Bank NA

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McFadden, Christopher J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Kytle, Atlanta, David Humphreys and Paul Catalano Humphreys Wallace Humphreys PC, Tulsa, Okla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert R. Ambler Jr. and John G. Perry Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A11A2053

    The plaintiff's complaint set for claim for negligence and negligence per se based on a teller's actions in improperly accessing the plaintiff's confidential inform

  • Davis v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bernadette C. Crucilla Crucilla Law Firm, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Winters, District Attorney, Sandra G. Matson, Dorothy V. Hull, Assistant District Attorneys, Macon, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1883

    The defendant stabbed the victim to death following an altercation at a 2008 Thanksgiving d

  • Fair v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC and Elizabeth V. Rogan, Atlanta, for Fair. Jeffrey L. Grube, Warner Robins, and James S. Stokes, Atlanta, for Jolly. Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Kimberly S. Schwartz, Assistant District Attorney, Garrison A. Wood District Attorney's Office, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Laura J. Murphree Prosecuting Attorneys' Council, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S10A1034; S10A1035

    O.C.G.A. § 17-10-30 b 8 does not require the defendant's knowledge that the victim was a peace officer to impose a death penalty on a defendant, who killed a peace officer conducting a no-knock wa

  • Naraine v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Horatio O. Edmondson and Yemane K. Clarke, Stone Mountain, for appellant.
    for defendant: Laura Sauriol, Tamara N. Baines and Tressa P. Marryshow City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0862

    The city of Atlanta was entitled to sovereign immunity from the plaintiff's action alleging that the city negligently maintained a fountain and failed to remove ice from a city sidewalk, causing her

  • Rolan v. Glass

    Publication Date: 2010-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter L. Lublin and Brian Linkowski Rubin Lublin LLC, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Timothy K. King Carl H. Hodges & Assocs. and Marion K. McEachern Hodges, McEachern & King, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0010

    Laches did not bar the plaintiff's claims arising from a real estate sale agreement, because he timely filed his initial action and lis pendens and then timely renew

  • Worley v. Winter Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel K. McCall, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James T. Budd, David T. Markle and Brett A. Miller Mabry & McClelland LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A0620

    The plaintiff did not show that she had a right to oral argument on her motion to reconsider and v

  • Worley v. Winter Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Daniel K. McCall, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James T. Budd, David T. Markle and Brett A. Miller Mabry & McClelland LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A0620

    A construction company's service of its' motion to dismiss by e-mail offered no basis for reversal, because e-mail service is permissible and the plaintiff did not show that any statutory requiremen

  • March 3, 2010 |

    The Politics of Shoveling

    FC&S editor Kelly Maheu discusses the potential pitfalls of shoveling snow in a column that appeared in the March 2010 issue of Claims Magazine.

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  • March 2, 2010 |

    AAIS Businessowners - Property Coverage

    Discusses the property section of the AAIS Standard and Special Coverage Forms, BP 0100 (01 04 Edition) and BP 0200 (01 04 Edition).

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