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  • State Auto Property and Cas. Co. v. Matty

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeffrey A. Van Duyne and William E. Turnipseed Savell & Williams LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dustin T. Brown, Peter J. Daughtery Daughtery, Crawford, Fully & Brown LLP, Peter B. Hoffman Berry Shelnut Day & Hoffman, Columbus, Susanne W. Langlais and Andrew B. Cash Cash, Krugler & Fredericks LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09Q1846

    If the term accident in an automobile liability insurance policy is not expressly defined, Georgia adopts the cause theory for application, which determines the of accidents according to the

  • Guyse v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Barbara N. Claridge Claridge Law Firm, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ashley Wright, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, and Elizabeth A. Harris, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1903

    The defendant's voluntary intoxication did not make him any less responsible for the aggravated assaults and felony murder arising from hi

  • Moore v. Moore

    Publication Date: 2010-02-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Faith Shoemaker-Shiffert, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: Diane Moore, Griffin, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09F1667

    The trial court's award of $40K in total alimony, actually constituted a property division intended to equalize distribution of the parties' marital

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-02-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony O. Jackson, Pelham, proceeded pro se. Joseph K. Mulholland, District Attorney, Bainbridge, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S09C2010

    Both the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals have the power to recall the remittitur of a case on their own accord, since this is an accepted feature of modern appellate pra

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Page A. Pate and Bernard S. Brody Pate & Brody LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gwendolyn K. Fleming, District Attorney, Leonora Grant, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sheila E. Gallow, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1083

    Any error in the trial court's exclusion of an audiotape of the co-defendant's statements while in the back of the patrol car was harmless, since the trial court allowed the defendant to thoroughly

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  • Killingsworth v. Killingsworth

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lance N. Owen Johnson, Owen & Bullard LLP, Griffin, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Edwin Joyner, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1137, S09A1142

    The impermissibly modified the divorce decree when it ordered the ex-husband to pay his ex-wife $1,875 in lieu of transferring one-half of his 401k account t

  • Harris v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael R. McCarthy, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and John S. Helton, Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09G0870

    A riding lawnmower is not a motor vehicle under O.C.G.A. § 16-8-12

  • Pierce v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jack J. Menendez, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Amelia G. Pray, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Reggie A. Lampkin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0663

    The defendant failed to show that her trial counsel was deficient for not raising a Batson challenge to the all-white jury, who convicte

  • Wilkerson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Derek H. Jones, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, John R. Edwards, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Amy E. H. Morelli, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0840

    The defendant's failure to object when the trial court erroneously stated that he could not make a request ounsel after waiving his right, combined with his failure to make a post-waiver reques

  • Saffo v. Foxworthy Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-12-04
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Francis X. Moore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Gary A. Barnes, Ellen M. Taylor Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, William A. Castings Jr., Vincent D. Hyman, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and R. O. Lerer State Law Dep't, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S09A0988

    O.C.G.A. § 48-4-47 barred the appellants from maintaining their suit to recover property sold at a tax sale, because they failed to pay or tender the full redemption amount to the purc