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  • McCall v. Henry Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Curtis A. Thurston Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert L. Goldstucker Nall, Miller, Owens, Hocutt & Howard, Atlanta, Rod G. Meadows and Bonnie L. Baker Meadows & Futch PC, Stockbridge, for appellee. Other party representation: Jack S. Schroder Jr., Kevin E. Grady, Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, and Mark L. Stuckey Law Offices of Charles L. Ruffin, Macon.
    Case Number: A01A0586

    A m center was not automatically immune under O.C.G.A. § 31-7-132 a from plaintiff's claim that it was negligent in granting m privileges to the surgeon who operated on plaintiff on the

  • In re Reuss

    Publication Date: 2001-05-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William P. Smith III, General Counsel, and E. Duane Cooper, Assistant General Counsel State Bar of Georgia, Atlanta. Albert N. Remler Remler Law Group PC, Atlanta. Althea L. Buafo, Chairperson Review Panel, Macon. Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: S01Y0925

    Attorney who failed to disclose his receipt of more than $93,000 in compensation from his bankruptcy client's wholly owned subsidiary was suspended for two

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant and Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Griffin B. Bell, Michael C. Russ and John P Brumbaugh King & Spalding, for appellee. Other party representation: Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, Evans J. Plowden Jr. and Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany.
    Case Number: A00A2362

    Evidence that a disputed payment was conditional on its acceptance as payment in full required the trial court to comply with a written request to issue part B of the pattern charge on accord and sa

  • Sumter Reg'l Hosp. Inc. v. Sumter Free Press Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Fennessy Fennessy & Nettum, Americus, W. Terence Walsh and Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John V. Harper Harper & Barnes PC, Americus, and James F. Myers III, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2055

    There was no nexus between defendant's conduct in refusing to patronize plaintiff's advertisers and any loss of plaintiff's bus

  • Sawnee Elec. Membership Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Orr and Charles B. Jones III Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin C. Greene Troutman Sanders, Helen O'Leary Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n., James S. Hurt Consumer Util. Counsel Div., Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel S. Walsh, Harold D. Melton and Robert S. Bomar, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: L. Clifford Adams Jr., Peter M. Degnan, Robert J. Middleton Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Richard G. Tisinger Sr. and Steven T. Minor Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton.
    Case Number: S00G0945

    The large-load customer choice exemption to the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act, O.C.G.A. § 46-3-1 et seq., did not apply to a 380-unit apartment complex where electric service to each apar

  • Brown v. Liberty County

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald J. Freeman and Thomas A. Cox Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James N. Osteen, Luther K. Davis Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Dow N. Kirkpatrick II, Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Alycia D. Foggs-Anderson, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2413, A00A2414, A00A2415

    The trial court was not required to hold a sua sponte evidentiary hearing before determining the amount of attorneys' fees a tax commissioner owed the county because she consented to the court-order

  • Gold Kist Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    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: A00A1254

    The trial court exceeded its scope of authority on remand when it reaffirmed its prior awards to the plaintiffs based on different theories of liab

  • Kelleher v. Pain Care of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. McMillan Walker, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Clifton M. Iler and Laura L. Owens Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Merritt M. Wofford and H. Andrew Owen Jr. Harman, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2420

    Because the pain clinic had no right to control the doctor's treatment of his patients, the clinic was not vicariously liable for the doctor's alleged negligent acts involving a patient's overdose f

  • Eisenstein v. DiPrimio

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay E. Loeb Olim & Loeb LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Keith J. Reisman Holland & Knight and J. William Boone Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1413

    The law firm that received the proceeds of a usurious business loan from the debtor to satisfy an unrelated judgment was entitled to defend the tor's constructive trust claim by arguing that th

  • King v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-10-13
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William D. Healan III, Winder, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy G. Madison, District Attorney, Jefferson, and Robin R. Riggs, Assistant District Attorney, Winder, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellants: Jack S. Schroder Jr., Angela T. Burnette, Donna P. Bergeson Alston & Bird, Nicholas A. Lotito Davis, Zipperman, Kirschenbaum & Lotito, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixon & Elmore LLP, Randall L. Hughes Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Richard L. Shackelford King & Spaulding, George E. Duncan Jr. Duncan & Mangiafico, James E. Singer Bovis, Kyle & Burch, Albert M. Pearson III Mills, Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, David A. Cook Medical Assoc. of Ga., Karen L. Duke Promina Health Systems Inc., Robert A. Schapiro, Associate Professor Emory Univ. School of Law, Atlanta, David N. Nelson Chambless, Higdon & Carson, Charles M. Cork III Reynolds and McArthur, Kenneth B. Banks Central Georgia Health Sys. Inc., Macon, Nina M. Svoren Healy & Svoren, Sean A. Black, Toccoa, Carol M. Todd West Georgia Health Sys. Inc., LaGrange, T. Mills, Fleming Hunter, McLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Michael G. Gray Walker, Hulbert, Gray & Byrd, Perry, C. Wade Monk II Shaw, Maddox, Graham, Monk & Boling, Rome, Richard A. Malone, District Attorney, Swainsboro, Charles C. Olson, Staff Attorney, Alvin G. Hollingshed Prosecuting Atty's Council of Ga., Smyrna, Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Leslie C. Abernathy, Solicitor General, Cumming, and Paul M. Kurtz, Professor & Associate Dean University of Georgia, Athens.
    Case Number: S99A1490

    The state's use of O.C.G.A. § 24-9-40 a to subpoena defendant's medical records was unconstitut