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  • Board of Pub. Educ. for the City of Savannah and County of Chatham v. Hair

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter C. Hartridge, Leamon R. Holliday III, Todd M. Baiad Bouhan, Williams & Levy LLP, and Lester B. Johnson III, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Atlanta, R. Jonathan Hart and Emily E. Garrard, Savannah, for appellees.
    Case Number: S03A0031

    A county ordinance that raised the county's commission for collecting school taxes to 2.5 percent and which resulted in over-reimbursement to the county does not violate O.C.G.A. § 48-5-404 a, since

  • City of Buford v. Georgia Power Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-05-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walt M. Britt and Gregory D. Jay Chandler & Britt LLC, Buford, for appellant.
    for defendant: Anthony O. L. Powell Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, and Donald W. Janney Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0089

    O.C.G.A. § 36-36-6 a 5 preempts a city's enforcement of a municipal ordinance, establishing a moratorium on construction of electric power substations on private pro

  • Garrett v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sharon L. Hopkins, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Wylencia H. Monroe, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0219

    The trial court had no duty to give a sua sponte jury instruction on threats and me

  • Agee v .State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dwight L. Thomas, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Maura F. Krause, Senior, Assistant District Attorney, and Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0508

    Defendant's pretrial detentions for unrelated crimes did not bar his prosecution for m

  • Messick v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bobby L. Cook Cook & Connelly, Summerville, and Todd M. Johnson, Cohutta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gerry E. Homes, James R. Osborne, District Attorneys, Dallas, Charles M. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Cedartown, Fred A. Lane Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Buchanan, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Ruth M. Pawlak, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0017

    The prosecutor's closing remark that the defendant could have left a bloody footprint found at the murder scene did not violate the state's narrow stipulation eliminating a single pair of the defend

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  • Cotton States Mut. Ins. Co. v. Brightman

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: H. Lane Young II Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, Morton G. Forbes and Scot V. Pool Forbes & Bowman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David R. Montgomery, James E. Hudson and Kenneth Kalivoda Hudson, Montgomery & Kalivoda PC, Athens, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Philip W. Savrin Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, James E. Singer Bovis, Kyle & Burch LLC, Atlanta, and Jerry A. Buchanan Buchanan & Land, Columbus.
    Case Number: S02G1739

    The jury was authorized to find that an insurer was negligent in not responding to plaintiff's conditional offer to settle an underlying injury suit for the insured's policy

  • CSX Transp. Inc. v. Belcher

    Publication Date: 2003-05-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sandra Gray Casey, Gilson & Williams PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mathew G. Nasrallah Robertson, Bodoh & Nasrallah LLP, Marietta, James H. Daniel Coker, Myers, Schickel, Sorenson & Green, and W. Earl Higgenbotham, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.
    Case Number: S02G1624

    Robison v. George, 253 Ga. App. 635 2002, is overruled to the extent it holds that the rule articulated in Prophecy Corporation v. Charles Rossignol Inc. 256 Ga. 27 1986, does not apply when a party

  • Chinn v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jill G. Polster, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Madonna M. Heinemeyer, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0290

    The prosecutor did not make a golden rule argument in closing when he said the victim was entitled to respect as a human being and to his day in

  • Hines v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-04-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry B. Hill, Lafayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, Lafayette, for appellant. Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Jill M. Zubler, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1699

    Evidence that a convicted mistook his friend for a turkey and shot him dead supported his murder conviction based on the underlying crime of possession of a firearm by a convicted

  • City of Atlanta v. Lane

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Rosalind R. Newell, Karen E. Woodward and Kristen E. Brooks, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . William J. McKenney McKenney & Froelich, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1805

    A former police officer was entitled to reinstatement as a city employee and entitled to back compensation since the city did not appeal the Civil Service Board's decision reversing the defendant's