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  • Palmer & Cay of Ga. Inc. v. Lockton Cos. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-05-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. Terry and Timothy S. Rigsbee Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William K. Whitner Pal, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Hunter R. Hughes III and Ashley R. Hurst Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G1629

    The nonsolicitation of customers agreement in the former employees' contracts was not unenforceably overbroad, since it narrowly limited solicitation of the defendants' customers who plaintiffs serv

  • Chapman v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-05-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James D. Michael Blend & Michael LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Barbara B. Conroy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0450

    The trial court's error in admitting the victim's hearsay statements to police officers about prior difficulties with the defendant was harmless in light of other admissible evi

  • Service Employees Int'l Union v. Perdue

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael E. Kramer Kramer & Patel LLC, John R. Myer, Atlanta, and Carol R. Golubock, Washington DC, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Bryan K. Webb and Kathleen T. Gosden, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1634

    The amendments to O.C.G.A. § 45-20-2 15-defining "unclassified service" as that term relates to the State Merit System-do not violate Art. IV, Sec. III, Par. I b of Ga. Const. of

  • McKee v. City of Geneva

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven M. Fincher and Winston A. Denmark Fincher, Denmark & Williams LLC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Deron R. Hicks Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, Columbus, and Gary E. Byrd, Hamilton, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A2103

    The city could not rely on its solid waste management plan SWMPto deny the petitioner's request for verification of his proposed solid waste handling facility, because the city did not comply with t

  • Martin v. Astudillo

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and William P. Rowe III, Ellijay, for appellant.
    for defendant: Martin Astudillo, Buford, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: S06A0401

    The habeas court was the appropriate judicial entity to consider the defendant's claims of ineffective assis

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  • Baker v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Diane M. Sternlieb and J. Thomas Vance Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jennifer McLeod Edwards, McLeod & Money PC and Kenneth W. Krontz, Douglasville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06F0374

    The evidence supported the jury's finding that a $170,000 alleged marital debt to a partnership, which the wife's parents' owned, constituted a gift, rather than a

  • Patel v. Patel

    Publication Date: 2006-03-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David L. Turner and Dean R. Fuchs Schulten, Ward & Turner LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey M. Fishman, Duluth, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0342

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to appoint a receiver to manage the assets of a restaurant during pending litigation in the absence of evidence of insolvency, waste, misman

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon D. Smith-Knox, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Chad E. Jacobs, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0036

    The defendant chased down and fatally shot the victim over a $6 drug

  • State v. Patel

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jake Arbes, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0299

    Plea counsel's express misrepresentations regarding the long-term effect of the defendant's nolo plea on his medical practice constituted ineffective assis

  • Morris v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-02-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Mason, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Ryan R. Leonard, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Vonnetta L. Benjamin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0169

    Defense counsel's failure to object to an officer's cumulative and immaterial hearsay testimony was har