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  • Fox v. Fox

    Publication Date: 2012-09-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Miles W. Rich, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick L. Meriwether and Melissa A. Tracy Meriwether & Tharp LLC, Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0672

    An agreement entered into by a couple prior to their remarriage was a marriage contract made in contemplation of marriage, not a prenuptial agreement, thus it is was unenforceable for failure to com

  • Durham v. Durham

    Publication Date: 2012-07-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
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    Case Number: S12A0537; S12A0607

    The Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over equity cases involving the proper interpretation of a trust prov

  • Kesterson v. Jarrett

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David F. Walbert Parks, Chesin & Walbert PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Weymon H. Forrester and Tracy M. Baker Forrester & Brim, Gainesville, for appellee. Other party representation: Thomas S. Carlock, Eric J. Frisch Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, and Andrew H. Marshall, Begnaud & Marshall LLP, Athens.
    Case Number: S11G0590

    A party may not be denied the right to be present in court based solely on the risk that her physical or mental condition may generate improper sympathy, even if that condition prevents them from a

  • Bunn v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheueli C. Wang, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James B. Smith, District Attorney, Winder, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Jefferson, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G0682

    The Supreme Court overruled Division 3 of Woodard v. State, 269 Ga. 317 1998, holding that it was inconsistent, the legislature had a rational basis for creating the Child Hearsay Statute and the st

  • Mohwish v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph Mohwish, Rossville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0851

    The trial court correctly entered judgment on the pleadings in a civil action seeking to interfere with an ongoing criminal prosec

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  • West Hamryka v. City of Dawsonville

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Edwin Hallman Jr., Zachary M. Wilson III and Richard A. Wingate Hallman & Wingate LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana B. Miles Miles, Patterson, Hansfor, Tallant LLC, Cumming, Bambi N. Carswell, John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, and Larry L. Hicks II Moore & Hicks PC, Hartwell, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Alphonso A. Howell IV, Timothy M Tanner Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, and Wendy S. Butler Coleman Talley LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0215; S12A0217; S12A0218

    The Court dismissed the appeals for failure to comply with the discretionary appeal procedures of O.C.G.A. § 5

  • Ellis v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Donaldson III and Richard W. Fields Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit S. Dorough Jr., Albany, and Jesse G. Bowles III, Cuthbert, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0315

    O.C.G.A. § 15-9-120 2—defining probate court as ' "probate court of a county having a population of more than 96,000 persons according to the United States decennial s of 1990 or any future suc

  • Westbrook v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. W. Barrow, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Dana E. Weinberger, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0081

    The defendant shot three men, one of them fatally, pointed his gun at a fourth man, then took money from the scene and fled in the murder victim's ve

  • Cook v. Board of Registrars of Randolph County

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III and Robert K. Raulerson Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Nancy G. Abudu and M. Laughlin McDonald ACLU Foundation Inc., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0140

    A determination of voter qualifications, not clearly linked to a particular election, does not bring the appeal under the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over cases of election contest within the meani

  • Moore v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-30
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    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
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    Case Number: S11A1503

    An in-chambers discussion of efendant's motion in limine to prevent the admission of similar transaction evidence did not constitute a proper Rule 31.3 hearing, as it was off the record, withou