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  • 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

  • Focus Entertainment Int'l Inc. v. Partridge Greene Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, and Michael A. Prieto, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . T. Michael Tennant, Elizabeth Bertschi and Daniel N. Esrey Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2486

    An adult entertainment store had actual notice by rule nisi that an interlocutory hearing had been ordered on plaintiff's claim of breach of a restrictive covenant prohibiting the sale or display of

  • BP Exploration & Oil Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald L. Mize Jr., George N. Mori, Douglas G. Scribner and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for BP Exploration & Oil. Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Gary C. Christy Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, and Christopher N. Smith, Macon, for Jones. Other party representation: William D. Harrison Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, and Luanne Clark Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rogers PC, Albany.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A1207; A01A1208

    A n l oil company was not vicariously liable for the plaintiff's injuries at an independently owned gas st

  • The ServiceMaster Co. LP v. Martin

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird, Chilton D. Varner and Robert D. Hays Jr. King & Spaulding, Atlanta, for Service Master. Francis X. Moore Byrne, Eldridge, Moore & Davis PC, Atlanta, for Martin.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A1093; A01A1094; A01A1095

    The trial court should have dismissed plaintiff's tort claims arising out of his firing since the duties which his employer allegedly breached arose directly out of his written employment con

  • Pimper v. State of Ga., ex rel. Simpson

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Brinson, C. King Askew, J. Anderson Davis, Mark M. Webb Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, Theodore J. Sawicki, John G. Goselin II, Craig H. Kuglar Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew J. Ekonomou, Michael G. Lambros Ekonomou, Atkinson & Lambros LLC, Lewis E. Hassett Morris, Manning & Martin, John E. Floyd Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, William Q. Bird William Q. Bird & Assocs., Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, David S. McLaughlin, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Stephen D. Smith Jr. Smith, Price & Wright, Edward Hine Jr., and Fred R. Simpson, Acting District Attorney, Rome, for appellee.
    Case Number: S01A0946

    The Bankruptcy Court had exclusive jurisdiction over defendants' l of the denial of their motion to dissolve an ex parte temporary restraining order and receivership order to the extent that th