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  • Peoples v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-04-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Scott Key, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, James A. Dooley, Emily K. Richardson, Assistant District Attorneys, Douglasville, 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: S13A1893

    The Supreme Court was divided 4-3 in affirming the defendant's convictions for felony murder and related c

  • Danforth v. Apple Inc.

    Publication Date: 2014-04-02
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Regan E. Keebaugh and Andrew Y. Coffman Parks, Chesin & Walbert PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: L. Traywick Duffie and Nicolette J. Lee Littler Mendelson PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1650

    O.C.G.A. § 34-1-7 gives employers standing to obtain protective orders based on unlawful violence and credible threats of violence directed against their employees, but such may extend only as far a

  • Ayers v. Public Sch. Emps. Ret. Sys. of Ga.

    Publication Date: 2014-03-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jerome Lee Hernan Taylor & Lee LLC, Norcross, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas V. Keough Stokes Lazarus & Carmichael LLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13G0655

    The trial court erred in denying the plaintiff Public School Employees Retirement System's motion for a directed verdict in its action seeking to recover three months of benefit payments mistakenly

  • Lloyd's Syndicate No. 5820 v. AGCO Corp.

    Publication Date: 2014-03-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael P. Johnson and Scott W. McMickle McMickle, Kurey & Branch LLP, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: T. Bart Gary and Seth F. Kirby Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Kim M. Jackson Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP, Eric J. Taylor Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP, Atlanta, and Bradley J. Watkins Brown Readdick Bumgartner Carter, Brunswick.
    Case Number: S13G0582

    The phrase "manufacturing defects" does not ordinarily encompass defects in product d

  • Hagan v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
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    Case Number: S14A0280

    Since the defendant's claim that he did not enter into his guilty plea knowingly, freely and voluntarily could not be resolved based on the existing record, it could not have been properly raised in

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  • Inman v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: McNeill Stokes, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl D. Cooke Jr., District Attorney, Elizabeth K. Bobbitt, Assistant District Attorney, Macon, Cynthia T. Adams, Assistant District Attorney, Fort Valley, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Clint C. Malcolm, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1458

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's motion for immunity based on a claim of defense of habitation, since the evidence showed that the defendant invited the victims into his home and then

  • Southern LNG Inc. v. MacGinnitie

    Publication Date: 2014-03-06
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa F. Stuckey, Herbert H. Gray III, Brian J. Morrissey, and William J. Seigler III Ragsdale, Beals, Seigler, Patterson & Gray LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, William W. Banks Jr., Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and Alex F. Sponseller, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1486

    On remand, the trial court must address questions regarding whether county tax appeals constitute an adequate alternative remedy precluding the plaintiff's mandamus claim seeking to compel the State

  • Ford Motor Co. v. Conley

    Publication Date: 2014-03-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher S. Anulewicz, Michael J. Bowers Balch & Bingham LLP, Michael R. Boorman, Audrey K. Berland Huff, Powell & Bailey LLC, Curtis A. Garrett Jr. Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, and Adam H. Charnes Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Winston-Salem, N.C., for appellant.
    for defendant: Robin F. Clark, Atlanta, Andrew W. Jones, Marietta, Benjamin E. Baker Jr., and Dana Taunton Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles LLC, Montgomery, Ala., for appellees. Amicus Appellant: Chilton D. Varner, Stephen B. Devereaux, Susan M. Clare King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, Robert D. Ingram, and Angela H. Smith Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta. Amicus Appellee: Madeline E. McNeeley and Darren W. Penn Harris Penn Lowry & Delcampo LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S13A1601

    The plaintiffs were properly granted an extraordinary motion for new trial since they met the requirements of showing that they exercised due diligence in asking the defendant for its insurance info

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2014-02-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter P. Morris, Evans, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dennis C. Sanders, District Attorney, Durwood R. Davis, Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kevin R. Majeska, Assistant District Attorney, Thomson, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Patricia B. A. Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Ryan A. Kolb, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A1349

    The defendant fatally shot the unarmed victim during a drug transa

  • Cowart v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-11-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
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    Case Number: S13A1295; S13A1296

    The co-indictee's proffer stat improperly bolstered his credibility and should not have been admitted as a prior consistent stat