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  • Adams v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert P. Hoyt Deming & Hoyt PC, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric S. Chofnas, Alpharetta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1320

    The legal rem available to the appellant did not offer relief as full and complete as the available equitable rem

  • Powell v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gilbert J. Murrah, Bainbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles M. Ferguson, District Attorney, Ron S. Smith, Chief Assistant District Attorney, T. Craig Ernest District Attorney's Office, Cuthbert, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee,
    Case Number: S09A1561

    Evidence of extramarital affairs does not constitute evidence of prior difficu

  • State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Staton

    Publication Date: 2009-10-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cubbedge Snow III, Thomas P. Allen III Martin Snow LLP, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: John A. Owens, J. Clinton Sumner Jr. Magruder & Sumner and David F. Guldenschuh, Rome, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: J. Marcus E. Howard Pope & Howard PC, Clyde E. Rickard III Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Atlanta, and Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Sizemore, Macon.
    Case Number: S09G0348

    The plaintiff was not a named insured and was not entitled to stack the UM coverage in his employer's insurance policies covering two vehicles that were not involved in the underlying car acc

  • Hotels.com v. City of Columbus

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerry A. Buchanan Buchanan & Land, Columbus, Edward K. Smith and Robin A. Schmahl Jones Day, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William U. Norwood III, Michael L. McGlamry, Neal K. Pope, Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Robert M. Travis, John R. Bielema Jr. Michael P. Carey Bryan, Cave, Powell & Goldstein, Atlanta, Charles N. Pope, Wade H. Tomlinson III and Paul Kilpatrick Jr. Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A0906

    The trial court did not err in basing hotel occupancy taxes, which an on-line travel company owes to the City of Columbus, on the hotel rate it charged to its customers, rather than the lower wholes

  • State v. Burks

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Julia A. F. Slater, District Attorney, and Douglas L. Breault, Assistant District Attorney, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank K. Martin and John T. Martin The Martin Firm LLP, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1145

    The defendant, a convicted felon, was not entitled to immunity under O.C.G.A. § 16-3-24.2-defense of habitation, because he is not entitled to carry or possess a fi

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  • McClure v. Kemp

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ivy N. Cadle Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell and Sarah L. Gerwig-Moore Mercer Law School, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1371

    Appellate counsel was deficient for failing to challenge the defendant's conviction under Cooper v. State, 277 Ga. 282

  • Coe v. Coe

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brenda H. Trammell, Madison, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09F0808

    The trial court correctly charged the jury that gifts of property between spouses during the marriage are subject to equitable div

  • Drew v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Koontz, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Lynne G. Voelker and Amelia G. Pray, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1477

    Prisoners, by virtue of incarceration alone, are not members of a suspect class for equal protection ana

  • Merritt v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-10-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy L. Eidson, Clinton L. Lott IV, Fitzgerald, and Stephen W. Czarnota, Cordele, for appellant.
    for defendant: Denise D. Fachini, District Attorney, Cheri L. Nichols, Assistant District Attorney, Cordele, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Sara K. Sahni, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1088

    Evidence that the defendant shot the victim in the back of the head while he was sitting in his recliner in his home after a 20-year tumultuous relationship supported her murder convi

  • Brooks v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-06-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John A. Nuckolls Sr. and John A. Nuckolls Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Garry T. Moss, District Attorney, Lawton W. Scott and Sara A. Thompson, Assistant District Attorneys, Canton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1898

    The defendant and freely and voluntarily consented to the search of his pro