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  • Cason v. Cason

    Publication Date: 2006-12-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Candace E. Rader, Carrollton, and Lee W. Fitzpatrick Lee W. Fitzpatrick & Assocs., Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Thomas Vance and Kenneth B. Crawford Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1442

    The trial court correctly applied O.C.G.A. § 44-12-152 and awarded the wife an amount based on the highest market value of the husband's stock between the time the husband could sell it and the time

  • Snider v. Basilio

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hardy Gregory Jr. Davis & Forehand Cordele, John S. Taylor, Jefferson C. Callier Taylor, Harp & Callier, Columbus, and Frederick S. Bergen Bergen & Bergen, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David N. Nelson Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs, Macon, Robert C. Martin Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, H. Andrew Owen Jr., Amy J. Kolzak and Elizabeth L. Fite Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06G0559

    Evidence that a nurse failed the nursing licensing examination three times was not relevant to the plaintiffs' claim that their pediatrician breached the standard of care by hiring the unlicensed nu

  • Perez v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lenzer and Thomas P. Lenzer Lenzer & Lenzer, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Lawrenceville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0774

    Aggravated assault conviction reversed, since the victim was dead, when the defendant inflicted a superficial chest wound upo

  • Allen v. Yost

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kim M. Minix Moore, Clarke, DuVall & Rodgers PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III Hodges, Erwin, Hedrick & Coleman LLP, Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, and Edward R. Collier Collier & Gamble, Dawson, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A1006

    The city council candidate timely filed her challenge under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-524 a to an election she lost by one vote, by filing it on the same day that the recount results were cert

  • Price v. Price

    Publication Date: 2006-10-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry D. Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Glyndon C. Pruitt, Buford, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1721

    In the absence of a transcript, the caveator could not show that the probate court abused its discretion in denying his motion for a contin

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  • Compton v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carl P. Greenberg Fulton County Conflict Defender Inc., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, Bettieanne C. Hart, Deputy District Attorney, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jason C. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1718

    The defendant waived his right to object to the dismissal of a juror during delibera

  • Hammack v. Hammack

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jean M. Kutner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas S. Bishop Cummings, Kelley & Bishop PC, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0762

    The trial court was authorized to hold a hearing on the husband's divorce petition and to enter a final judgment and decree of divorce, since 30 days passed from when the wife's answer was due under

  • Rice v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mitchell D. Durham and Marc D. Cella, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Irvan A. Pearlberg, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorneys, Marietta, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1109

    The exhibits admitted at the hearing on the murder defendant's motion challenging the constitutionality of the lists from which his grand jury was drawn and his traverse jury will be drawn, belied t

  • Lawson v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer E. Hildebrand Hildebrand Law Office PC, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Herbert E. Franklin Jr., District Attorney, LaFayette, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Edwina M. Watkins, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A0867

    One felony murder conviction reversed, since there was only one assault and it must be assumed from the guilty verdict for voluntary manslaughter that the jury found the underlying aggravated assaul

  • Yeager v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-09-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gregory W. Valpey Valpey & Parks, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, Dahlonega, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S06A1299

    The defendant, who was upset that the victim was going to re-enlist in the Navy and leave her, shot the victim in the head after he twice asked her to put down her father's rifle and she gave polic