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  • In re Ward

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y1041

    Attorney with mental impairment is indefinitely suspended based on his admitted false statement under oath that he filed a notice of appeal of his client's murder convi

  • In re Ogrey

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0843

    Attorney voluntarily surrendered his license to practice law based on his guilty plea to methamphetamine possession under Georgia's First Offende

  • In re Johnston

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A1352

    Out-of-state attorney must take Multistate Bar Examination and Georgia's Attorneys' Examination because her voluntarily resignation in the face of pending disciplinary proceedings in another state w

  • In re Bremus

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
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    Case Number: S00Y1080

    Attorney disbarred pursuant to his petition to voluntarily surrender his license based on his admitted fabrication of certain docu and his making false state

  • In re Gormley

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0609

    Attorney voluntarily suspended pending termination of appeal of convictions for conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering, aiding and abetting and false declaration in United States District Court fo

  • In re Barrett

    Publication Date: 2000-05-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y1252

    Attorney voluntarily suspended from practice of law in Georgia based on her three-year Florida Bar suspension for violations that are substantially equivalent to Standards 23, 43 and 44 of Georgia B

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Healan III, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1490

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a violates the Georgia Constitution's right to privacy to the extent it allows a health care provider to release medical records on subpoena by the

  • Reilly v. Alcan Aluminum Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis R. Thompson, Akron, Douglas H. Duerr and William D. Deveney Elarbee, Thompson & Trapnell, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glen D. Nager, Gregory A. Castanias, Paul R. Reichert Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., and Jane L. Hanson Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York, NY, for appellees. Amicus appellant: John F. Beasley Jr. Nelson, Hill, Lord & Beasley, Thomas C. Shanahan Sweat & Giese PA, Athens, J. Lewis Sapp, Victor A. Cavanaugh and Richard R. Gignilliat Elarbee, Thompson & Trapnell, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S99Q1590

    Neither O.C.G.A. § 51-1-6 nor O.C.G.A. § 51-1-8 create a civil action for age discrimination based on a violation of Georgia's age discrimination law, O.C.G.A. § 34-1-2, or the Age Discrimination in

  • Dorsey v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Duana R. Sanson, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Maria Murcier-Ashley, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0672

    Defendant's death in prison rendered his criminal appeal

  • Hampton v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton Moulton & Massey LLC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, Anne C. Allen, Jeffrey W. Hunt, Assistant District Attorneys, Carrollton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1391

    The trial court was not required to ensure that opening and closing statements were rec