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  • Ferdinand v. Board of Comm'rs of Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Bauer Jr. Bauer & Deitch PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paula M. Nash and Sudevi Navalkar Ghosh, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1860

    The employees of the Fulton County Tax Commissioner's office are county employees and part of the county civil service s

  • Turner v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-03-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald F. Samuel Garland, Samuel & Loeb PC, Atlanta, Jimmy D. Berry and D. Victor Reynolds Berry & Reynolds, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1971

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence that the defendant's boyfriend died approximately six years after her husband died of similar ethylene glycol poisoning to show her motive, bent of

  • Human v. Harpagon Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard N. Hubert Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Barry L. Zimmerman Zimmerman & Assocs., Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Daniel M. Formby, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert J. Proctor Proctor, Chambers & Hutchins, Edward T. McAfee Carlock, Copland, Semler & Stair LLP, and Arthur Guthas, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0764

    The delinquent taxpayer was not entitled to a jury trial in appellee's quiet action after his property was levied upon, since the appellee's action was brought ' "to remove clouds on appellee'

  • Thomason v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter B. Harvey Harvey & McCormack, Jefferson, and Christopher D. Elrod Elrod & Elrod PC, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Crawford, District Attorney, Clarksville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1478

    The defendant shot his estranged wife eight times with an AK-47 assault rifle, killin

  • McGowan v. Progressive Preferred Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James E. Butler Jr., Dustin T. Brown, Joel O. Wooten Jr. Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer LLP, Jason L. Crawford, James C. Fuller Daugherty, Crawford, Fuller & Brown LLP, Gary O. Bruce, Columbus, and Jonathan H. Waller Campbell, Waller & Poer, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.
    for defendant: . John A. Chandler, Thomas M. Byrne, Teresa W. Roseborough, Kristin B. Wilhelm, William D. Barwick, Thomas W. Curvin, Jeremy U. Littlefield Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, John L. Watkins, John S. Berry McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Alan W. Loeffler, Herbert D. Shellhouse, Wesley B. Tailor Troutman Sanders LLP, Tony G. Powers, Kimberly L. Myers Rogers & Hardin LLP, Atlanta, Mark Mester, Julie D. Bailey, Paula W. Render, Kenneth G. Shuler Latham & Watkins, Chicago, Ill., and Patrick E. Gibbs Latham & Watkins LLP, Menlo Parks, Calif., for appellee.
    Case Number: S05G2086

    An appraisal clause in an automobile insurance contract did not moot the plaintiff's fraud, breach of contract and RICO claims, since the plaintiff's allegation that her insurer and a valuation comp

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  • Williams v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Orin L. Alexis, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Spencer Lawton Jr., District Attorney, Margaret E. Heap, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Robin J. Leigh, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1805

    The defendant failed to show that his trial counsel was defi

  • Davis v. Harpagon Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore and Rachel E. Sullivan Frank X. Moore & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby Department of Law, Robert J. Proctor, Bradley A. Hutchins, John C. Clark, Adam C. Caskey Proctor, Chambers & Hutchins, William A. Castings Jr., Atlanta, Michelle L. Thomas DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0895; S06A1137

    Evidence that the appellant listed the appellee's predecessor-in-interest as one of her creditors in a 1996 bankruptcy proceeding belied her contention that she lacked notice of the transfer of a fi

  • State v. Sumlin

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, and Marc A. Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carl P. Greenberg, Carl P. Greenberg, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1352

    The grant of a mistrial two months after the jury convicted the defendant of murder, aggravated assault and two firearms offenses was

  • Davis v. Harpagon Co. LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore and Rachel E. Sullivan Frank X. Moore & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby Department of Law, Robert J. Proctor, Bradley A. Hutchins, John C. Clark, Adam C. Caskey Proctor, Chambers & Hutchins, William A. Castings Jr., Atlanta, Michelle L. Thomas DeKalb County Law Dep't, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0895; S06A1137

    Evidence that the appellant listed the appellee's predecessor-in-interest as one of her creditors in a 1996 bankruptcy proceeding belied her contention that she lacked notice of the transfer of a fi

  • Chattowah Open Land Trust Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ann A. Shuler and Charles W. Stephens Stephens & Shuler, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John H. Peavy Jr. Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Michael W. Rushing Merritt & Tenney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, John B. Ballard Jr. State Law Dep't, Carol V. Clark, Atlanta, Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, and Dorothy H. Bishop, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0709

    Under O.C.G.A. § 53-12-24 a, the appellant did not have the power to act as a trustee to the land left to it in charitable trust under the decedent's