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  • Angel Bus. Catalysts LLC v. Bank of the Ozarks

    Publication Date: 2012-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael Robl and Erin Lerner Spears & Robl Law Firm, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: John Richard and Amy Weber Taylor English Duma LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0343

    The creditor's supporting documents were admissible as business records and the creditor sufficiently established the debts each individual guarantor

  • Wright v. Apartment Inv. & Management Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Sullivan Taylor English Duma LLP, and Louis R. Cohan Cohan Law Group LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John P. Hutchins, Christopher A. Wiech, Puja R. Patel Troutman Sanders LLP, and Robert M. Sneed Jr. McConnell Sneed & Cohen LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A11A2227

    The trial court erred in denying the defendants' motion for j.n.o.v. as to the plaintiff wholly-owned subsidiary, since no evidence showed that this pass-through entity suffered losses or was otherw

  • Tampa Inv. Group Inc. v. Branch Banking and Trust Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John D. Dalbey, John K. Larkins Jr. Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever LLP, Eugenia W. Iredale and Steven M. Kushner Fellows LaBriola LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jennifer B. Moore, Mark G. Trigg and Lee B. Hart Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G1728; S11G1729

    Although the guaranties at issue did not individually and specifically identify the debt guaranteed, the plain meaning of their language showed that the obligations had no temporal limitation and ap

  • Adorno v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
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    Case Number: A11A2272; A11A2273

    Evidence showed that the first defendant's 10-year-old and 12-year-old daughters told her several times that the second defendant was molesting them, but the first defendant did not meaningfully in

  • Kremer v. Tea Party Patriots Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kevin A. Leipow Hall Booth Smith & Slover PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Amanda G. Hyland Taylor English Duma LLP, and Deborah A. Ausburn, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A2364

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in holding the defendant in an underlying declaratory judgment action in contempt on the basis that she had not taken all the necessary steps to deliver

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    British court provides clarity on joint interest privilege

    Court develops five-part test

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  • Yi v. Li

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Wayne Pierce Pierce & Dunkelberger, Atlanta, for appellant. Richard A. Kaye and E. Peyton Nunez Taylor English Duma LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1150

    Because the parties' franchise purchase agreement did not place the duty of obtaining the franchisor's consent on the seller and no evidence existed that the seller prevented the satisfaction of thi

  • Zywiciel v. Historic Westside Village Partners LLC

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kwame L. Townes, Tucker, for Zywiciel. Kenneth W. Muhammad The Muhammad Firm, Smyrna, for Muhammad. Ernest L. Greer, Michael J. King Greenberg Traurig LLP, Hayden R. Pace Pace Law PC, and Michael E. Ross Taylor English Duma LLP, Michael P. Froman, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1243; A11A1582

    An easement existed in a section of road running between arties' properties because both properties descended from same original subdivision described on the recorded plat, despite the fact tha

  • Dan J. Sheehan Co. v. The Fairlawn on Jones Homeowners Ass'n Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David M. Conner The Conner Law Group PC, Savannah, for appellant. Colby E. Longley, Mathew M. McCoy McCorkle & Johnson LLP, Margaret K. Clark Cole, Fleming & Clark, Elizabeth F. Thompson, Savannah, Elizabeth A. Frey Weinstock & Scavo PC, Louis R. Cohan Cohan Law Group LLC, and Joseph C. Sullivan Taylor English Duma LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A11A1030; A11A1315

    Summary judgment was appropriate on plaintiff's foreclosure of lien claims, because a question of fact existed as to whether there was a contract or assent of the pa

  • In the Matter of Thomas C. Sinowski; In the Matter of Steven F. Freedman

    Publication Date: 2011-12-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, Paula J. Frederick, General Counsel, and Jonathan W. Hewett, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Foy R. Devine, Vivian D. Hoard Taylor, English Duma, and Robert D. Feagin Martenson, Hasbrouch & Simon LLP, Atlanta. Anthony B. Askew, Chairperson Review Panel, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S11Y0485; S11Y0486

    Two attorneys, who paid non-lawyer runners for referrals in at least 1376 cases and kept a record of those payments in a runner book, were disb