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Atlanta Business Chronicle
March 24, 2018
Capitol Vision: Beltline bill gets approval; Georgia Supreme Court rules against Chrysler. Email; Share Ãâ÷ Share Ãâ÷ Tweet ... The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld $40 million in legal damages against Chrysler Group LLC stemming from a Jeep fire that killed a 4-year-old boy. In a ruling March 15, theÃâà...
Legal News Line
March 23, 2018
ATLANTA (Legal Newsline) – The Georgia Supreme Court on March 5 reversed a decision of the Georgia Court of Appeals and ordered a retrial in a medical malpractice and negligence lawsuit over the death of a patient. Judge Nels S.D. Peterson wrote the court's opinion. The case is Southeastern PainÃâà...
Autoblog (blog)
March 17, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld a $40 million award to the family of a 4-year-old boy killed in 2012 when the 1999 Jeep Grand Cherokee in which he was riding was rear-ended and burst into flames. A lower court in 2015 reduced a jury verdict from nearly $150 million to $40Ãâà...
WTOC
March 16, 2018
"FCA welcomes the decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to hear this argument. The court was fully engaged and we are pleased with that and we are going to await the outcome," said Media Relations Manager Eric Mayne. The attorney argued that the wrongful death award is a higher value than anyÃâà...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
March 16, 2018
Georgia has put to death a man known as the "stocking strangler," who was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized a small city decades ago. The office of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said 67-year-old Carlton Gary was pronounced dead at 10:33 p.m. Thursday at theÃâà...
Atlanta Business Chronicle
March 16, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court Thursday upheld $40 million in legal damages against Chrysler Group LLC stemming from a Jeep fire that killed a 4-year-old boy. The justices sided with a 2016 ruling by the state Court of Appeals that rejected Chrysler's arguments that a trial judge erred in allowing evidenceÃâà...
Daily Tribune News
March 16, 2018
The murder conviction of a Gwinnett County man for a crime committed in Cartersville was upheld Thursday by the Georgia Supreme Court. Ted Debaise Robinson, of Sugar Hill, was convicted by a Bartow County grand jury in 2013 of malice murder, two counts of felony murder, attempted armed robberyÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 15, 2018
The Latest on the scheduled execution of Georgia death row inmate Carlton Gary (all times local):. 10:35 p.m.. Georgia has put to death a man known as the "stocking strangler," who was convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized a small city decades ago. The office of GeorgiaÃâà...
Fresno Bee
March 15, 2018
Gary still had appeals pending before the Georgia Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. Gary's lawyers have argued physical evidence that exonerates him wasn't available at the time of trial, either because the necessary testing wasn't yet available or because the state didn't provide it. His trialÃâà...
CVN News (blog)
March 8, 2018
Although the verdict was affirmed by a divided Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court sided with appellants in holding the trial court's instructions on general negligence lacked support. “The plaintiffs' case of medical malpractice was very strong,” Peterson wrote. “But a very strong case of case ofÃâà...
The Telegraph
March 5, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court has lifted a gag order imposed in the Tara Grinstead murder case. In its ruling Monday, Justice Keith R. Blackwell wrote: "A gag order like this one may be constitutionally permissible in exceptional circumstances, but the record here does not reveal circumstances sufficientlyÃâà...
Law.com
March 5, 2018
This disciplinary matter is before the Court on the report and recommendation of the Review Panel, recommending that Sam Louis Levine (State Bar No. 448738) be disbarred for his neglect of matters involving two clients and his misconduct arising out of his contentious divorce proceeding. The State BarÃâà...
MyAJC
March 5, 2018
Georgia Supreme Court Justice David E. Nahmias (DAVID BARNES / DAVID.BARNES@AJC.COM) AJC FILE PHOTO. Posted: 5:24 p.m. Monday, March 05, 2018. Since Sandy Springs became a city more than 12 years ago, it's been fighting with its strip clubs. Monday, one of the disagreements — between the city andÃâà...
Chattanooga Times Free Press
March 5, 2018
After a Walker County woman's appeal took 19 years, the Georgia Supreme Court is demanding that criminal cases throughout the state move faster. In a unanimous opinion issued Monday, Associate Justice David Nahmias wrote that defendants in Georgia sometimes have to wait too long before a higherÃâà...
The Albany Herald
March 5, 2018
Tara Faye Grinstead, a former history teacher and Miss Tifton, was reported missing on Oct. 22, 2005. A gag order related to the murder case connected to her disappearance has been vacated by the Georgia Supreme Court. (File Photo). OCILLA — The Supreme Court of Georgia has thrown out the gagÃâà...
Savannah Morning News
March 5, 2018
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the convictions of a Savannah man in connection with the 2012 slayings of two people and an aggravated assault within four days over a $20 crack dispute. The court ruled against arguments for Dwayne Karlton Greene challenging his July 16, 2014,Ãâà...
Reporter Newspapers
December 31, 1999
The city has already faced a similar argument in another adult business case argued in early March before the Georgia Supreme Court, with a decision pending. In Maxim Cabaret v. Sandy Springs, local strip clubs are challenging zoning laws, but the city argues the challenges are moot due to later repealsÃâà...
Post Searchlight
December 31, 1999
The Georgia Supreme Court denied Fiat Chrysler its appeal on Thursday in a $40 million case involving the death of 4-year-old Remington Walden, who died in a Jeep accident in 2012. The justices unanimously upheld the original ruling from the Court of Appeals in 2016, rejecting FCA's arguments thatÃâà...
Henry Herald
December 31, 1999
Rosenbaum trial stalls while waiting on a Georgia Supreme Court decision. By Chelsea Prince. cprince@henryherald.com ... As of Monday morning, the case had not yet been docketed with the Georgia Supreme Court. Once it has, it is expected that both sides will be given the opportunity to file any briefsÃâà...
