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  • McPherson v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Wyatt, and William H. Newton III, Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tambra P. Colston, District Attorney, Rome, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Susan V. Boleyn, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Michael Mears MultiCounty Public Defender, Atlanta, and Linda A. Malone William & Mary College School of Law, Williamsburg, Va.
    Case Number: S01P0660

    The trial court properly refused to excuse for cause a prospective juror who was a corrections officer and had no general arrest

  • Pryor Org. Inc. v. Stewart

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers, T. Joshua Archer Meadows, Ichter & Trigg PC, and Leeza R. Cherniak Strongwater & Cherniak, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James R. Fortune Jr. Beck, Owen & Murray, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1174

    The county sheriff acted within his discretion in refusing to allow a bondsman to continue issuing bail bonds in the county based on the bondsman's arrest for impersonating an officer and public off

  • City of Atlanta v. S.W.A.N. Consulting & Sec. Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-10-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, Lisa S. Morchower, Assistant City Attorney, Chagay Weiss, Associate City Attorney, Rajan Bhandari City of Atlanta Law Dep't., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory W. Lancaster Peevy & Lancaster PC, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0952

    A security agency which was duly license by the state had standing to challenge the constitutionality of a local ordinance which regulated all persons working at adult entertainment establishments t

  • Anderson v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth P. Johnson and Carl S. Pedigo Jr. McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: G. Carroll Palmatary Hutto, Palmatary & Magda PA, and George M. Rountree George M. Rountree & Assocs. PC, Brunswick, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A1077

    Pursuant to the parties' pre-nuptial agreement, the wife was not entitled to an equitable distribution of assets in a trust that was created from the husband's first di

  • Miller v. Harco Nat'l Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Roger F. Huff, Atlanta, and John M. Morrow, Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . R. Clay Porter and Thomas D. Trask Dennis, Corry & Porter LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01Q0803

    In the rare case where a corporation is the alter ego of its controlling shareholder, the corporation should be considered as a named insured on the shareholder's motor carrier insu

  • Watts v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-09-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David H. Jones and Brian A. Gardiner King & King & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Kevin W. Drummond and Tara M. Wilson, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: James C. Bonner Jr. Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01G0278

    Bowe v. State, 201 GA. App. 127 1991 and other cases which hold that a defendant has the burden of showing that information was deliberately or recklessly omitted from an affidavit in support of a s

  • Georgia Dep't of Natural Resources v. Theragenics Corp.

    Publication Date: 2001-08-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar and John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jerry B. Blackstock, John W. Harbin, Tracy M. Culver, Adam P. Princenthal Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy, Otto F. Feil III and Celeste McCollough Chorey, Taylor & Feil PC, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Susan M. Pruett, Ted C. Baggett, James F. Grubiak, Kelly J. Pridgen, Atlanta, and James E. Elliott Jr., Warner Robins. Amicus Appellee: William H. Kitchens Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S00G1851

    A government agency could not rely on plaintiff's failure to identify all of its trade secrets at the time of original filing as a waiver of the confidentiality of plaintiff's proprietary mat

  • Cook v. Huff

    Publication Date: 2001-07-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Howard P. Wallace, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: William G. Johnston III Shepherd & Johnston, Griffin, for appellees.
    Case Number: S01A0756

    Evidence that the propounder attempted to alienate the testator from other family and that she actively encouraged him to execute a new will which was more generous to her was sufficient to submit t

  • Cotton v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-07-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Phillips, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard Z. Simms, District Attorney, Sandra G. Matson, Assistant District Attorney, Myra Y. Hutchinson, Macon, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0886

    Evidence showing that defendant attacked and shot the victim without provocation supported his felony murder convi

  • Hughes v. Sikes

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffery Hughes, Buford, proceeded pro se. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Tammie J. Philbrick, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01A0144

    The habeas court clerk usurped the Supreme Court's authority to determine its own jurisdiction over defendant's appeal by determining that his notice of appeal was untimely and refusing to fi