• Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Skow

    Publication Date: 2014-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeanne S. Hollis, Steven P. Smith Simkins Hollis Law Group PC, Atlanta, Colleen J. Boles, Kathryn R. Norcross, Minodora D. Vancea, James S. Watson Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Arlington, Va., Chris D. Kiesel, Kyle M. Keegan Keegan, Denicola, Kiesel, Bagwell, Juban & Lowe LLC, Baton Rouge, La., and Charles B. Lee Miller & Martin PLLC, Chattanooga, Tenn., for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert R. Ambler Jr., John G. Perry, James E. Connelly, Jennifer S. Collins Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice PLLC, David Balser, Merritt E. McAlister, Ellen C. Carothers, David M. Barnes King & Spalding LLP, Tracy L. Klingler, Jeffrey R. Baxter, James B. Manley Jr., Jill C. Kuhn McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Aaron M. Danzig, Edward A. Marshall, Richard A. Mitchell Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Stanley H. Pollock Garner Couch & Ezell LLP, Atlanta, R. Randy Edwards, Paul A. Piland Cochran & Edwards LLC, Smyrna, Kirk D. Smith Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker LLC, Frank M. Young III Young Law, Birmingham, Ala., and Jeffrey S. Bucholtz King & Spalding LLP, Washington, D. C., for appellees. Amicus Appellees: William W. Banks Jr., Senior Assistant Attorney General, Stephanie Burnham, Assistant Attorney General, John R. Bielema Jr., Michael P. Carey Bryan Cave LLP, Atlanta, Joseph J. Reilly, and Katherine B. Katz BuckleySandler LLP, Washington, D.C.

    Case Number: S14Q0623

    A bank director or officer may violate the standard of care set forth in O.C.G.A. § 7-1-490 when he acts in good faith but, with respect to the process by which he makes decisions, he fails to exerc

  • Choisnet v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Margaret E. Heap, District Attorney, Isabel M. Pauley, Shalena C. Jones, Assistant District Attorneys, Savannah, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0578

    The evidence was far from clear as to whether the defendant acted as the result of any delusional compulsion when he beat, stabbed and strangled his elderly father to

  • Reed v. Reed

    Publication Date: 2014-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S14F0321

    Although the trial court erred in failing to dismiss the husband's divorce complaint, the wife's counterclaim for divorce remained pending for independent adjudic

  • Mitchell v. Wells Fargo Bank NA

    Publication Date: 2014-07-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Smith Smith Law LLC, Atlanta, and Louise N. Smith Smith Law LLC, Dacula, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan E. Green, Linda S. Finley, and Joshua N. Tropper Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: S14A0391

    The trial court did not err in dismissing the plaintiffs' action based on the failure to comply with a bill of peace barring one plaintiff from filing lawsuits without prior court app

  • Lilly v. Heard

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Lawton C. Heard Jr., Camilla, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0433

    Res judicata barred the plaintiffs' quo warranto action seeking to remove the defendant from the county Board of Education, as a pre-election challenge to the defendant's candidacy on the same grou

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  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Nancy L. Anderson Anderson & Bradley, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, Jessica W. Clark, Tracy K. Chapman, Assistant District Attorneys, Valdosta, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Meghan H. Hill, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0558

    The defendant's convictions and sentences for aggravated assault and armed robbery should have merged into his felony murder convictions predicated on those off

  • State v. Nankervis

    Publication Date: 2014-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Rebecca A. Wright, District Attorney, Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, and Joshua B. Smith District Attorney's Office, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kurt A. Worthington Fleming & Nelson LLP, Evans, for appellee.

    Case Number: S14A0513

    The sentencing provisions of the methamphetamine trafficking statute are constitut

  • Henderson v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-06-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S14A0225; S14A0226

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea and motion to recuse the trial judge, who also took the defendant's guilty plea and denied his motion for an

  • Reed v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
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    Case Number: S13A1583

    The defendant fatally shot the victim in the chest with a shotgun during a landlord/tenant di

  • Crawford v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maryann F. Blend, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, Justin D. Unger District Attorney's Office, Lawrenceville, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, and Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: S13A1875

    Cellular phone records provided circumstantial corroboration of a co-conspirator's testimony that the defendant was involved in a home invasion burglary, false imprisonment and murder of the victim,