• Head v. Hill

    Publication Date: 2003-10-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Patricia B. Burton, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for Head. Brian S. Kammer and Thomas H. Dunn Georgia Resource Ctr., Atlanta, for Hill. Amicus appellees: James C. Bonner Jr., Sarah L. Gerwig Georgia Indigent Defense Council, Michael M. Mears, Holly L. Geerdes, Multi-County Pub. Defenders, Gerald R. Weber Jr. American Civil Liberties Union, John R. Martin Martin Bros. PC, and Nicholas A. Lotito, Atlanta.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S03A0559, S03X0560

    The habeas court erred in not applying the pipeline rule to the defendant's habeas petition based on the decision in Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 2002, which established a new rule of procedura

  • Georgia Dep't of Defense v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William D. BarwickAlana R. Black, Deborah M. Danzig Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, and Thomas E. McCarter Goldner, Summer, Scrudder & Bass LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A03A1492

    The doctrine of intra-military immunity barred plaintiff's claim to recover for the injuries he sustained while repairing a helicopter at a military

  • Morris v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory N. Crawford, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick T. O'Connor, Paul H. Threlkeld Oliver, Maner & Gray LLP, Abda L. Quillian and James C. Metts III, Savannah, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A0111

    Two police officers were entitled to qualified immunity for their actions in ordering the decedent to leave a restaurant, despite conflicting evidence that decedent was noticeably intoxi

  • State v. Carlton

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, and Chris A. Arnt, Assistant District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Albert L. Watson III, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee.

    Case Number: S02G1175

    An arrest warrant is insufficient to invoke the speedy trial provisions set for in the Interstate Agreement on Deta

  • Campbell v. State Rd. and Tolloway Auth.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Bowers, Christopher S. Anulewicz, David G. Michell Meadows, Ichter & Bowers PC, George P. Shingler Casey, Gilson & Leibel, Atlanta, and Bruce E. Bowers, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel J. Formby, Deputy Attorney General, John B. Ballard Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Shirley R. Kinsey, Assistant Attorney General, John H. Mobley II, William D. Barwick, Thomas A. Farnen, Laurance J. Warco Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Richard G. Woodward King & Spalding, and P. Andrew Patterson Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson & Patterson, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S03A0160

    The joint resolution empowering the State Road and Tollway Authority SRTA to issue up to $822 million in federal-aid highway grant anticipation revenue bonds does not violate the gratuities c

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  • Reece v. Chestatee State Bank

    Publication Date: 2003-05-02
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Hurst, Dunwoody, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rex J. McClinton, Dawsonville, and Frank Armstrong III, Gainesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A1957

    Statements allegedly directed at a third party did not provide a basis for the defendants' intentional infliction of emotional distress counter

  • Brooks-Powers v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel L. Starks Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Walter B. McClelland Mabry & McClelland LLP, and Robert J. Routman, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A02A2448

    The exclusive remedy provision of the Workers' Compensation Act barred the plaintiff's suit arising out of her husband's death at work, while inspecting a segment of MARTA

  • King v. City of Bainbridge

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gilbert J. Murrah, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce W. Kirbo Kirbo & Kendrick, Bainbridge, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A1685

    Cannon v. Coweta County, 260 Ga. 56 1990, is overruled to the extent it held that a municipality can only regulate the placement of mobile homes based on construction stan

  • Department of Transp. V. Montgomery Tank Lines Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-24
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, and Loretta L. Pinkston, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Stefan C. Passantino and James C. Gober Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta, for Montgomery Tank Lines Inc., Reliance Ins. Co. and Federal Express Corp. John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Atlanta, and James W. Smith, Hinesville, for Federal Express Corp.

    Case Number: S02G0700; S02G0701;S02G1028

    The definition of loss in the Georgia Tort C Act is broad enough to include contribution and indemnity c

  • Rabun County v. Georgia Transmission Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-01-13
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: V. Robert Denham Jr., Chandler P. Thompson Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, and L. Allyn Stockton Jr. Stockton & Stockton LLC, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Fred D. Bentley Jr., Debra H. Bernes Bentley, Bentley & Bentley, Marietta, and Linton K. Crawford Jr., Clarkesville, for appellee.

    Case Number: S02A1374

    A county ordinance imposing a 3-year moratorium on construction of high voltage lines was void since it unconstitutionally interfered with an electric membership corporation's power of eminent d