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  • E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. v. Waters

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Pail W. Painter Jr., Sarah B. Akins Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams LLP, Savannah, Tracy A. Roman and Kathleen T. Sooy Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen A. Sael, Richard H. Middleton Jr. The Middleton Firm LLC, Savannah, Jeffrey L. Arnold, H. Craig Stafford Arnold, Stafford, Randolph & Schaefer, Christopher J. Osteen Osteen & Osteen and Alvin G. Wells Jr., Hinesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1928

    Uniform Superior Court Rule 46 allows a trial court to appoint a special master in difficult cases to aid the discovery pr

  • Baker v. Wellstar Health Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-06-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Manton The Manton Law Firm LLC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Henry D. Green Jr. and Mary P. Adams Green & Sapp LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellants: Traci G. Courville Oates & Courville, Columbus, and J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Atlanta. Amicus Appellees: Thomas S. Carlock Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair LLP, Brian W. Looby, Donald J. Palmisano Jr. Medical Ass'n of Ga., Simuel F. Doster Jr. and Hunter S. Allen Jr. Allen, McCain & OMahoney PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S10A0994

    O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a provides that a plaintiff waives his right to privacy with regard to medical records only insofar as they are relevant to a medical condition, which the plaintiff places at iss

  • Jakupovic v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, Sadhana P. Dailey District Attorney's Office, Columbus, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0532

    The presumptively prejudicial near 19-month delay between the grant of the defendant's motion for a new trial on charges of murder and related offenses did not cause the defendant actual prej

  • Dyer v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton Lee Sexton & Assocs. PC, Stockbridge, for Dyer. J. Scott Key, McDonough, for Rozier. William K. Wynne Jr., District Attorney, Melanie M. Bell, Assistant District Attorney, Covington, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A0276; S10A0709

    The trial court's charge on simple assault, as a whole, correctly instructed the jurors as to that crime's proper defin

  • Robinson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jason R. Clark Clark & Williams, Brunswick, for Robinson. Ernest B. Gilbert, Brunswick, for Woods. Stephen D. Kelly, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Assistant District Attorney, Brunswick, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A0428; S10A0429

    Both parties were equally responsible for the 18-month delay between the defendants' arrest on charges of murder and related offenses and their scheduled

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  • Hollins v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Khari L. Hollins, Sparta, proceeded pro se. Ashley Wright, District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S10A0638

    The trial court correctly denied the defendant's motion for an out-of-time appeal of the conviction entered on his guilty plea to murder on the basis that the habeas court previously adjudicated his

  • Manley v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerard B. Kleinrock Public Defender's Office, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Christopher R. Johnson, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, and Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, for state.
    Case Number: S10A0136, S10A0137

    The trial court erred in failing to suppress defendant's statement to police after being arrested, because he unambiguously requested a lawyer and all questioning should have stopped immedi

  • Weis v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen B. Bright Southern Ctr. for Human Rights, Robert H. Citronberg, Atlanta, and Thomas M. West, Manchester, Mass., for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott L. Ballard, District Attorney, Robert W. Smith Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Griffin, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Patricia B. A. Burton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1951

    Inadequate or delayed defense counsel funding from the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council did not result in presumed prejudice to the defendant, since the funding deficiency showed neither an

  • Hicks v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2010-04-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven K. Leibel, Dahlonega, for appellant.
    for defendant: Render C. Freeman, Michael J. Blakely Jr. Andersen Tate & Carr PC, Duluth, and Jeffrey P. Yashinsky Schur, McDuffie & Morgan, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09G1508

    In iff's vicarious liability action, the burden-shifting paradigm in Allen Kane's Major Dodge v. Barnes, 243 Ga. 776 1979, supported the grant of summary judgment to the defendant, because the

  • McBride v. Murray

    Publication Date: 2010-03-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David E. Betts Betts & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Annette M. Cowart, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0339

    The trial court's dismissal of appellant's second complaint was proper because she received her requested name-cle he