...Georgia Supreme Court effective July 19.Blackwell will fill a seat left vacant by the pending departure of Justice George Carley, whose resignation becomes effective July 17.Deal, a Republican, said the court will benefit from Blackwell's...
...gubernatorial election, to a seat on the Georgia Supreme Court being vacated by a retirement.He will replace Justice George Carley, who will retire next month. Blackwell's selection was the Republican governor's first appointment to the state...
...Florida's law should have applied because the gift involved property located in that state.In a dissent, Justice George Carley said that the majority "mischaracterizes" the property involved in the will and misapplies Florida's law. It said...
...date change could benefit conservative judicial candidates. Of the four justices whose terms end in 2012, Justice George Carley has announced his retirement. He'll turn 75, the effective retirement age, early in the next term if re-elected...
...cannot say that the use of paperless, touchscreen voting systems severely restricts the right to vote," Justice George Carley wrote in an opinion published Monday. The unanimous ruling upheld an earlier decision by a Fulton County Superior...
...Carlisle Overstreet's comments about the confessions were clearly prejudicial to the jury. In the decision, Justice George Carley wrote, "Construing this evidence most strongly in support of the verdicts, it was sufficient to authorize a rational...
...dismissed a 2009 lawsuit filed by the Fulton County Taxpayers Foundation before reviewing all the facts. Presiding Justice George Carley wrote in the opinion that the complaint was dismissed without first establishing whether it was "arbitrary and unreasonable...
...Melton showed up on voters' radar, but barely, with a minuscule 1 percent recalling his name without prompting. George Carley and Hugh Thompson simply don't exist as far as voters are concerned. Put another way, 85 percent of those questioned...
...state of Georgia, keep their judiciary independent." Three other justices drew no opposition. Veteran Justices George Carley and Hugh Thompson will be re-elected automatically, and freshman Justice Harold Melton is winning his first full...
...non-lawyers within the firm and could have been offered by a company without any attorneys," wrote Presiding Justice George Carley.In the dissent, Justice Harold Melton disagreed."A lawyer can, and must, practice law without punching people...
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