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  • Stokes v. Edwards

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Rebecca S. Mick and Dennis R. Dunn, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1816

    Plaintiff could not file a writ of prohibition challenging superior court's decision reversing the dismissal of petition to remove him from school board, since court had jurisdiction over that admin

  • Hackbart v. Hackbart

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James R. Westbury Jr. Power & Westbury LLP, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eloise W. Newhard Adams House, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1310

    The trial court should not have awarded child support against father since mother's divorce petition did not seek child support and father did not answer the petition or appear at the he

  • Parker v. Clary Lakes Recreation Ass'n Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John T. Sparks and John B. Austin Austin & Sparks PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. Dinges Temple, Strickland, Counts & Dinges, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0099

    Evidence that homeowners' association would suffer greater harm if it could not increase assessments than plaintiff would suffer if assessments were increased supported denial of his request to enjo

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jana M. Whaley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorneys, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and H. Maddox Kilgore, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0029

    Since state crime lab expert could not say what effect cocaine had on the murder victim, his testimony that the victim consumed cocaine and a detective's testimony that the victim had cocaine in his

  • Shazer v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ernie M. Sheffield, Colquitt, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Brown Moseley, District Attorney, Bainbridge, Robert R. Auman, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Cairo, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S00A0035

    Evidence that defendant threatened to kill his wife if she left him, that the wife died from a gunshot wound inflicted with a pistol held against her chest and that the gun could not have fired acci

  • Carter v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kathy S. Palmer, Swainsboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, William S. Askew, Assistant District Attorney, Swainsboro, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1603

    Although the trial court should have charged on impeachment by conviction since a state witness admitted to his prior felony convictions without objection, that error was harmless given the other e

  • In re Clinton

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0426

    Attorney who was disbarred in Alabama is suspended in a until he is reinstated in Alabama or until, three years after his suspension, he applies for and is reinstated to the practice of law in

  • In re P.H.M.T.

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00A0716

    Evidence that the applicant engaged in the unauthorized practice of law and gave incorrect answers on his application supported the denial of his application for certification of fitness to practic

  • In re Mendelson

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0462

    Attorney's petition to voluntarily surrender his license accepted based on his failure to promptly disburse clients' settlement funds or provide them with an accou

  • In re Nolan

    Publication Date: 2000-01-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S99Y1809, S99Y1810, S99Y1811

    Attorney disbarred for appearing in a criminal case without informing the trial court that his license was susp