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  • Leone Hall Price Found. v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, James W. Williams and Nowell D. Berreth Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Michael Treadaway, Donald L. Mize, Ray B. Gray Jr., C. Fred Reeves, Marietta, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Grace E. Lewis, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Randall A. Constantine Mazursky & Dunaway LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A0081

    A foundation created by a private charitable trust had the right to oppose termination of the trust in contravention of the settlor's i

  • Gold Kist Inc. v. Moody

    Publication Date: 2002-12-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Richard R. Hays and Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross, for appellees.
    Case Number: A02A1225

    The trial court could not presume that a prior judge followed the law of the case on remand where that judge failed to do so on remand from a prior a

  • Board of Natural Resources v. Duke Energy Sandersville LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Deputy Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Diane L. DeShazo, Assistant Attorneys General, David C. Will and Kurt R. Ward Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney,Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Barbara H. Gallo, Daniel H. Sherman IV, Bruce P. Brown McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, and Robert M. Wynne, Sandersville, for appellee. Other party representation: Daniel S. Reinhardt Troutman Sanders LLP, Peter M. Degnan, Douglas E. Cloud, Daniel N. Esrey Alston & Bird, and Robert S. Ukeiley, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A02A1566

    The EPD's appeal was moot since the underlying administrative appeal was withdrawn and the case was dism

  • Harvey III v. J. H. Harvey Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Dow N. Kirkpatrick II, Heather R. Peoples Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, J. Reese Franklin and W. Daniel Knight Jr., Nashville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank C. Jones, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV and Rance L. Craft King & Spaulding, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0452; A02A0453

    The concept of constructive service was applicable to an action for breach of an employment contract which provided that the plaintiff would serve as the defending company's President and Chief Oper

  • Lifestyle Family LP v. Lawyers Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Robbins, Julianne N. Belaga, Deborah M. Danzig Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, and Kevin H. Hudson Rowe, Foltz & Martin PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0668

    Plaintiff's alleged brokerage agreement with defendant was unenforceable because the parties did not reach a meeting of the minds on an essential term—plaintiff's commi

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2002-05-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith, Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant, Michael B. Terry and Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Griffin B. Bell, Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Michael C. Russ, John P. Brumbaugh King & Spalding, Atlanta, Whitney G. Saunders Saunders, Babineau & Brewbaker LLC, Suffolk, Va., and Wayne S. Weaver Southwestern Peanut Shellers Assoc., Stephenville, Texas, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Evans J. Plowden Jr., Dawn G. Benson, and Charles K. Wainwright II Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless LLP, Albany.
    Case Number: S01G1157

    Contract clause relating to the sale of additional peanuts at a higher than contracted price was not void for violation of federa

  • Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP v. Six Flags Over Ga. LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Buford, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, John J. Dalton Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler and Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, N.Y., for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Butler Jr., George W. Fryhofer III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Albert M. Pearson III Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, H. Lamar Mixson, Michael B. Terry, Nancy J. Walsh and Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Davidson & Tucker LLP, Duluth.
    Case Number: A00A0120

    The Court of Appeals overruled Kent v. A. O. White Jr., Consulting Engineers PC, A01A0756 1/29/02, 02 FCDR 374, to the extent that it held that the Georgia Supreme Court adopted the standard set for

  • Kull v. Six Flags Over Ga. LP

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph D. Perrotta, Louis R. Feingold Northcutt, Edwards, Gordon & Feingold, and Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Mulholland Savell & Williams and Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2315

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of injury by inserting metal pliers into a light socket on electronic scoreboard since the evidence did not show that the plaint

  • University Health Servs. Inc., d/b/a Univ. Hosp. v. Long

    Publication Date: 2002-03-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Wyckliffe A. Knox Jr. Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, and Joseph H. Huff Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas W. Tucker, John B. Long, A. Montague Miller Tucker, Everitt, Long, Brewton & Lanier, and John P. Batson, Augusta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Jack S. Schroder Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S01A1658

    When reviewing a hospital's revocation of a doctor's clinical privileges, the trial court had to defer to the hospital's judgment that the doctor mismanaged patient

  • Kmart Corp v. Merriweather

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Nowell D. Berreth and Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy and Michael Weinstock Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2298

    The Court could not consider defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence because they failed to include all of the evidence presented at trial in the appellate r