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  • Sherman v. Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys.

    Publication Date: 2013-06-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Woodham Woodham Law LLC, Robert D. Feagin, Atlanta, and Irwin W. Stolz Jr. Hurt, Stolz & Cromwell LLC, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cathy Hampton, City Attorney, Jeffrey S. Haymore, Lemuel H. Ward City of Atlanta Law Department, Charles S. Johnson III, Sarah L. Zampell, Joshua I. Bosin, Paul E. Vranicar Holland & Knight LLP, Matthew C. Welch, Atlanta, Lee B. Carter, and Norman S. Fletcher Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Rome, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13A0333

    The 2008 Amendment to the Georgia Constitution rendered constitutional the Atlanta Independent School System, City of Atlanta and Atlanta Development Authority's reliance on school taxes to help fun

  • Durden v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-06-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth W. Sheppard, Smyrna, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert D. James Jr., District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0026

    The Court vacated the defendant's separate sentence for family violence aggravated assault, overruling Hall v. State, 287 Ga. 755 2010, and holding that the family violence aggravated assault convic

  • City of Baldwin v. Woodward & Curran Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-05-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. David Syfan, General Counsel, and Jessica M. Lund Hulsey, Oliver & Mahar LLP, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amicus Appellant: Rusi C. Patel and Susan J Moore Georgia Municipal Association, Atlanta. James C. Weidner and Ernest H. Woods III Oliver & Weidner LLC, Clarkesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12G1842

    The contract between the plaintiff and the defendant city was ultra vires and void because it was not executed in accordance with the city's charter, and thus recovery under an equitable doctrine li

  • Heywood v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-04-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Lea and McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Luana P. Nolin, Erman J. Tanjuatco, Assistant District Attorneys, Charles A. Brooks District Attorney's Office, Jonesboro, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine T. Parvis, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1925

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying th ndant's request to postpone the trial to empanel a new set of prospective jurors after one such juror remarked during voir dire that t

  • Driver v. Driver

    Publication Date: 2013-04-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jillyn M. O'Shaughnessy and John P. Konvalinka Grant Konvalinka & Harrison PC, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Ben T. Hickey Jr Spicer, Flynn & Rudstrom PLLC, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellee.
    Case Number: S13F0152

    The evidence supported the trial court's conclusion that an award of property in kind would not provide the wife with a sufficiently equitable division of the marital property, and that a sum of $5

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  • Triola v. Triola

    Publication Date: 2013-04-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Scott R. King, Leah Zammit, and Steven M. Lefkoff Jacobs & King LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Bruce W. Phillips, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13F0538

    The trial court erred in denying the husband's motion for new trial in a divorce action, since it did not first hold a hearing on the motion, as required under Uniform Superior Court Rul

  • Charleston v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-28
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malcolm L. H. Wells Malcolm L. H. Wells & Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Paige R. Whitaker, Deputy District Attorney, Marc A. Mallon, Senior Assistant District Attorney, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1990

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion for new trial, since the defendant failed to obtain an affidavit from his co-defendant for his unsworn statement at trial that the defendant di

  • Castillo-Solis v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arturo Corso Corso, Kennedy & Campbell LLP, Gainesville, Norman H. Cuadra, and Gregory E. Vanison Sr. Norman H. Cuadra PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rosanna M. Szabo, Solicitor General, Karin B. Sullivan, and James M. Grant, Assistant Solicitors General, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1601

    O.C.G.A. § 40-5-20 a's safe-harbor provision requires the production in court of a Georgia driver's license that was valid at the time the defendant drove the vehicle, and nothing in the statutory l

  • Slaughter v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Travis A. Williams and H. Bradford Morris Jr. Public Defender's Office, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lee Darragh, District Attorney, Kathleen J. Devine, Lindsay H. Burton, Assistant District Attorneys, Gainesville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Katherine L. Iannuzzi, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A1527

    Evidence of the victim's prior bad acts against third parties was properly excluded in the defendant's malice murder trial since the defendant failed to make a prima facie showing of justific

  • Schutt v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jessica R. Towne Clark & Towne PC, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Stephen A. Fern, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Benjamin H. Pierman, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A2060

    The defendant's aggravated lt conviction should have merged into her murder conviction, since no evidence showed any deliberate interval between the conduct that was the basis for the aggravate