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  • Sumter Elec. Membership Corp. v. Georgia Power Co.

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Orr, Jennifer N. Ide and Benjamin C. Morgan Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert P. Edwards Jr. Troutman Sanders, Alex F. Sponseller and Daniel S. Walsh, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1131

    O.C.G.A. § 46-3-4 4 did not apply to this case because, by the plain meaning of the statute, corridor rights apply only when two suppliers owned lines in an area at the time of assignment to a pre-d

  • Phillips v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas D. Lovett Kelley, Lovett & Blakely PC, Valdosta, Jeremiah H. Croxton Jr. and Richard W. Field Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Anne R. Moore, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09Q2033

    The spendthrift clause in an inter vivos trust was unenforceable, because the settlor was the sole beneficiary and he retained a general power of appointment enabling him to dispose of trust propert

  • Spencer v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight Spencer, Rome, proceeded pro se. Leigh E. Patterson, District Attorney, John A. Tully and Harold W. Goldin, Assistants District Attorneys, Rome, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S09A1650

    The evidence supported the defendant's conviction for deposit account

  • Mann v. Blalock

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Douglas R. Ballard Jr. Fears, Lawrence & Turner PC, Jackson, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry S. Mayfield Smith, Welch & Brittain LLP, Barnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1804

    The trial court erred in finding the administrator's deed from appellant to decedent's nephew conveyed fee simple title, rendering null and void the restriction placed on the property in the deceden

  • Flint v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lorenzo E. Flint Jr., Coleman, proceeded pro se. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and David K. Getachew-Smith, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
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    Case Number: S09H1936

    The Supreme Court granted a certificate of probable cause to appeal and remanded the case with direction that the habeas court hold a transcribed hearing, in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 9-

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  • R.A.F. v. Robinson

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Friedman, Dunwoody, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Elizabeth M. Williamson, Assistant Attorney General, and Jason S. Naunas Attorney General's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0044

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in dismissing the appellants' attempt to amend their complaint after the trial court entered judgment in the

  • Shivers v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Phyllis R. Williams, Decatur, and Jimmonique R. Rodgers Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1713

    The defendant killed the victim with a single gunshot to the chest, after returning to the victim's home following an arg

  • Bankston v. Lachman

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David A. Webster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Aretha Lachman, Stone Mountain, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S09F1706

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion by setting the visitation sch

  • Marshall v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Janet W. Hankins, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, John O. Williams, Assistant District Attorney, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A2036, S09A2037, S09A2038

    The defendant's right to a speedy trial was not violated, despite the presumptively long

  • Peterson v. Harrell

    Publication Date: 2010-02-12
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    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tom Pye Law Offices of Tom Pye PC, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael S. Goode Perrotta, Cahn & Prieto PC, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1857

    Evidence did not show that the testator intended to revoke her will in its entirety under O.C.G.A. § 53-4-44 when she made handwritten alterations crossing out the names of the successor beneficiari