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  • Hedquist v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rosemary S. Armstrong, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Taylor W. Jones, Linda R. Greer Jones, Copeland, Lefkowitz & Greer, Richard H. Sinkfield, Brett A. Rogers and Paul W. Stivers Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S99G0754

    The plaintiff's voluntary dismissal with prejudice of the defendant's employee did not bar its respondeat superior claim against the defendant since the dismissal was not an adjudication on the meri

  • Scott v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Homer R. Hannah III, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0510

    Evidence that on the date of his scheduled release from prison, inmate allowed another inmate to borrow his identification and leave the prison and did not bring the escape to prison officials' atte

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lloyd W. Walker, Fayetteville, for appellant.
    for defendant: William T. McBroom III, District Attorney, Fayetteville, Randall K. Coggin, Assistant District Attorney, Thomaston, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1283

    The defendant's aggravated battery conviction merged into his malice murder conviction since both crimes required the state to prove that the defendant maliciously shot the victim in the forehead wi

  • Moton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: C. Victor Long, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Pridgen, District Attorney, and Kathryn O. Fallin, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1680

    Since defendant sold cocaine after the Georgia Controlled Substances Act was amended to make a life sen discretionary for his offense, the trial court erred in imposing a mandatory life sen

  • Zager v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2000-03-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Goldberg, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ruth W. Woodling Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2100

    Employer's letter stating that employee had a two-year contract with the company was not an enforceable employment contract since it did not describe nature or location of employee's d

  • Phillips v. Walls

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
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    Case Number: A99A1968, A99A1969

    County transportation employees had official immunity against plaintiffs' suit for their children's deaths on a county road, since plaintiffs presented no evidence that employees negligently inspec

  • Outdoor Advertising Ass'n of Ga. Inc. v. Garden Club of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S99A1567, S99X1568

    The fact that former attorney general represented the state transportation department in plaintiff's first suit against it did not disqualify him from representing plaintiff in second suit, since he

  • Bellamy v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
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    Case Number: S99A1671

    Defendant was not entitled to a charge on involuntary manslaughter since the evidence showed he either committed murder or no crime a

  • In re Adams

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0717

    Attorney's voluntary surrender of his license to practice law accepted based on his guilty plea in federal court to a f

  • Ogburn v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
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    Case Number: A00A0215, A00A0411

    Following his acquittal, defendant could not seek to modify the record to set aside the trial court's denial of his motion for a directed verdict just because he wanted to improve his chances of rec