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  • Perkins v. The Val D'Aosta Company

    Publication Date: 2010-07-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin Akin & Tate LLC, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Robert P. White and Eulryoung Chung Buckley King LPA, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0413

    A factual question remained as to whether the hazard precipitating the plaintiff's fall was readily discernible to him in his exercise of ordinary care and, thus, whether his knowledge of it can be

  • Humphreys v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kristi L. Winstead Lister & Holt LLC, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tasha M. Mosley, Solicitor General, and Paul M. Mickens, Assistant Solicitor General, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0763

    The arresting officer had probable cause to stop the vehicle the defendant was driving based on a random li checked showing that the vehicle's owner had a suspended li

  • Lowry v. Cochran

    Publication Date: 2010-06-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Groth, Laura D. Johnson Groth & Makarenko, Suwanee, and Robert M. Malcom Preston & Malcom, Monroe, for Lowry. William M. Akin Akin & Tate LLC, Cartersville, for Cochran. William C. Anderson Downey & Cleveland, Marietta, for Johnson. David G. Archer Archer & Lovell PC, Cartersville, for the city of Euharlee. Other party representation: Lance T. McCoy The McCoy Law Firm, Cartersville.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A0929; A10A0930; A10A0931; A10A0932

    A city was immune from liability under the Recre l Property Act for the plaintiff's injuries during a skydiving demonstr

  • Barrett v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William M. Akin and S. Lester Tate III Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: John C. Bonnie, Stephen J. Rapp Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Charles J. Cole and Derrick L. Bingham Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Julie A. Lierly, Caroline W. Spangenberg Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Norman L. Underwood Troutman Sanders, Robin F. Cook, Atlanta, and Hugh B. McNatt McNatt, Greene & Peterson, Vidalia.
    Case Number: A10A1125

    Natural gas was not a tant under the excess liability policy in question, because nothing in the record showed that natural gas is considered an irritant or contaminant within the meaning of th

  • Pounds v. Brown

    Publication Date: 2010-04-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Pitts Carr Carr, Tabb, Pope & Freeman LLP, Atlanta, and Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Michael Weinstock, Richard V. Merritt Weinstock & Scavo PC, Dwight J. Davis King & Spalding, Leo E. Reichert, F. Berry McCabe, Atlanta, Harbert S. Gregory Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC, Robert B. Silliman Awtrey & Parker, Marietta, and S. Lester Tate III Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A0497

    The trial court erred in allowing an EMC to adopt a bylaw amendment providing for proxy voting at future meetings, because the amendment was contrary to the terms of a settlement agreement between

  • TKW Partners v. Archer Capital Fund LP

    Publication Date: 2010-03-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gus H. Small Jr., Bruce Z. Walker and Brent W. Herrin Cohen Pollock Merlin & Small, PC, Atlanta, for TKW Partners. John R. Autry, Stephen M. Forte and Jason S. Bell Smith Gambrell & Russell, Atlanta, for Crossing Park Properties. Paul N. Monnin, Mark E. Grantham, James F. Cirincione and Anthony D. Lehman DLA Piper US LLP, Atlanta, for Archer Capital Fund.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A09A2022, A09A2023

    The trial court did not err in acknowledging a dispute over the property's true and then ruling that the highest and best use of the property was not its proper

  • Jackson v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-03-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven L. Sparger, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Larry Chisolm, District Attorney, and Arvo H. Henifin, Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1822

    Improper testimony regarding the defendant's prior incarceration prejudiced his right to a fair

  • Flores v. Keener

    Publication Date: 2010-02-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lawrence L. Bennett Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Moskowitz Moskowitz & Carraway, Atlanta, Joseph T. Leman Harris & Hartman Law Firm PC, Dalton, and S. Lester Tate III Akin & Tate, Cartersville, for appellee. Other party representation: Delece Brooks State Bd. of Workers' Compensation, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A10A0583

    The Court of Appeals reinstated the Appellate Division's judgment allocating attorneys' fees from a workers' compensation settlement between the claimant's former attorney and the attorney, who obta

  • BDI Laguna Holdings, Inc. v. Marsh

    Publication Date: 2010-01-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tiana S. Mykkeltvedt, Jeffrey O. Bramlett, Corey F. Hirokawa, Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, David A. Donohoe and Daniel F. McInnis Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, Washington, D.C., for BDI Laguna Holdings Inc. Steven G. Hall, Robert G. Brazier and Kevin A. Stine Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Atlanta, for Charles L. Marsh. Other party representation: Ellen G. Schlossberg and Charles C. Murphy Jr. Vaughan & Murphy, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A09A0990, A09A0991

    No consideration from the plaintiff supported a post-employment-contract promise to the plaintiff of 2 percent of the corporation's

  • Bonner v. Peterson

    Publication Date: 2009-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edwin A. Wilson Randolph Frails PC, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Claude M. Sitton, Assistant Attorney General, Vincent A. Toreno and Parker M. Green Rutherford & Christie LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1644

    The second defendant, a resident physician, was entitled to immunity under the Georgia Tort Claims Act, because she was supervised by attending physicians, had no hospital privileges, could not make