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  • 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

  • Leal v. Hobbs

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. McDonald Jr., Julia M.B. Haffke and Amy Greenstein Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carol Deloach Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge, Smotherman, Martin & Price LLP, Walter H. Beckham III Kirwan, Parks, Chesin & Remar PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Vincent D. Hyman City of Atlanta and Kim E. Anderson Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1205

    Plaintiff failed to show that student intern was negligent in administering intravenous tions to her husband under the direct supervision of an ambulance para

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

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler, Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George W. Fryhofer III Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, H. Lamar Mixon, Michael B. Terry, Nancy L. Johnson, Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, James E. Butler Jr., Albert M. Pearson III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, Columbus, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Anderson, Davidson & Tate, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A00A0120

    Theme park's general partner breached its fiduciary duty by making bad faith decisions as to the amount and type of capital improvements the theme park would re

  • Oglethorpe Power Corp. v. Hartwell Energy Ltd. Partnership

    Publication Date: 2000-08-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth T. Horton Jr. Autry & Horton LLP, Tucker, and William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0823

    Third party's sale of stock did not trigger defendant's right of first refusal under an ag t between plaintiff and defendant, since third party was not plaintiff's affiliate as defined in the a

  • Hodor v. GTE Mobilnet Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-07-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gordon L. Joyner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Lisa H. Cassilly and Anne E. Lubell Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1270

    Supervisor's insensitive comments in front of plaintiff's co-workers, including a joke that plaintiff had to eat baby food, did not constitute extreme and outrageous beh