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  • December 31, 2008 |

    No Class Relief for TILA Mortgage Rescissions

    In September the 7th Circuit held that class recovery is never available for TILA rescission claims.

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  • Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Auth. v. Doe

    Publication Date: 2008-07-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
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    Case Number: A08A1075; A08A1228

    The trial court lacked the jurisdiction to amend its $1.7M judgment to include prejudgment interest, after the defendant filed its notice of a

  • September 30, 2007 |

    Under Review

    <em>Hall Street Associates</em> may restrict judicial reviews of arbitration awards.

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  • December 4, 2006 | Legal Times

    After Bubble Bursts, Soap Opera Goes On

    Conference Call summarizes the roughly 15 percent of all non-pauper petitions that are the most likely candidates for certiorari. The Supreme Court's jurisdiction is almost entirely d

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  • Soilberry v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-11-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael D. Mann, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter J. Skandalakis, District Attorney, LaGrange, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A2086

    The officer was authorized to stop the defendant's vehicle after observing a seatbelt viol

  • Reagan v. State

    Publication Date: 2006-10-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert L. Wadkins, David E. Webb and Jennifer E. Dunlap Public Defender's Office, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: John G. Conger, District Attorney, Columbus, and Raymond C. Mayer, Assistant District Attorney, Newnan, for appellee.
    Case Number: A06A1057

    The trial court did not reversibly err in denying the defendant's motion for a directed verdict on two m counts, since the jury acquitted the defendant of m

  • July 31, 2006 | Legal Times

    2005-06 Supreme Court: The Advocates' View

    The Supreme Court's 2005-06 term began with a bang and ended with a blockbuster. After a decade-plus of stability, the Court had two new members to unsettle expectations. Chief Justic

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  • Brodes v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-07-01
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry A. Hibbert Cromwell & Hibbert, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul L. Howard, District Attorney, Alvera A. Wheeler and Anne E. Green, Assistant District Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04G2101

    Reliability of an eyewitness's identification can be negatively impacted by stress or violence, so trial courts are advised to refrain from informing jurors that they may consider a witness's level

  • City of Macon v. Alltel Communications Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas C. James III James, Bates, Pope & Spivey, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Nisbet S. Kendrick and Adam S. Katz Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Robert J. Middleton Jr., Albany, Susan M. Pruett and Ted C. Baggett Georgia Mun. Ass'n, Atlanta. Bennett L. Ross BellSouth Telecomms. Inc., Dorian S. Denburg BellSouth Corp., Atlanta, and Robert M Dow Jr. Mayer, Brown, Rower & Maw LLP, Chicago, Ill.
    Case Number: S04Q0128

    The city's amended ordinance, which increased permit fees for wire, cable or conduit located in a city street right-of-way is preempted by O.C.G.A. § § 32-4-92 a 10 and 32-6-174, as well as Georgia

  • Wade Driggers d/b/a Falcon Constr. Co. v. Campre

    Publication Date: 2001-02-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James P. Gerard and Timothy M. O'Brien Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: David H. Johnson McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson, LLP, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2411

    The plaintiff was not prejudiced by the defendant's failure to raise her affirmative defenses in the pretrial order because defendant raised those defenses in her prior motion for summary jud