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STATE OF GEORGIA v. MOSELEY

S93A1129.

263 Ga. 680 (1993)

436 S.E.2d 632

STATE OF GEORGIA v. MOSELEY et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied December 17, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Bowers, Attorney General, Michael E. Hobbs, Deputy Attorney General, William C. Joy, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Mary F. Russell, William M. Droze, Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Butler, Wooten, Overby & Cheeley, James E. Butler, Jr., Robert A. Cheeley, Patrick A. Dawson, Albert M. Pearson III, King & Spalding, Byron Attridge, Griffin B. Bell, David Ruprecht, Chilton D. Varner, Kirkland & Ellis, Kenneth W. Starr, Paul T. Cappuccio, Christopher Landau, McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enerson, David M. Heilbron, Leslie G. Landau, Cynthia A. Coe, for appellees.

Joyce K. Kinnard, Michael Rustad, amici curiae.

SEARS-COLLINS, Justice.

This appeal stems from a products liability action brought against General Motors Corporation by the appellees, Thomas and Elaine Moseley. Following a jury verdict awarding, in relevant part, $101,000,000 in punitive damages against General Motors, the State of Georgia sought to have the trial court apportion 75 percent of the punitive damages award to the State under OCGA § 51-12-5.1 (e) (2)....

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