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  • Swartz Invs. LLC v. Vion Pharm. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce H. Beerman Burr & Forman LLP, Atlanta, Ross J. Adams, Marietta, and Carlton M. Johnson Jr. Swartz Investments, Roswell, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. D. Humphries III, Paul J. Pontrelli and David S. Mohl Stites & Harbison PLLC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1316

    A non-circumvention agreement which sought to prevent a pharmaceutical company from entering into any agreement or transaction with six named investors for a period of five years was unenforceably o

  • Bowen v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lee Sexton, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, and Jay M. Jackson, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1620

    The court improperly limited defendant's cross-examination of the victim about her financial interest in the outcome of his

  • Murph v. Maynard Fixturecraft Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce H. Carraway III Moskowitz & Carraway, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert C. Semler, Lynda S. Williams Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, and Teri Y. Callahan Hatcher, Stubbs, Land, Hollis & Rothschild, Columbus, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1665

    A Tennessee company was estopped from denying workers' compensation coverage for the plaintiff's injuries, because the company contractually obligated itself to ensure that its subcontractors' emplo

  • Dodd v. Scott

    Publication Date: 2001-06-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert A. Weber Jr. Smith, Gilliam & Williams, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0172

    A jury question remained as to whether decedent's daughter and her husband held six acres in a constructive trust for decedent's e

  • Gooch v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-06-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary P. Bunch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Norman S. Gunter, District Attorney, and Lynn M. Akeley-Alderman District Attorney's Office, Dahlonega, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A0123

    The trial court erred in sentencing defendant for selling methamphetamine after directing a verdict of acquittal on that

  • Washington Rd. Developers LLC v. Weeks

    Publication Date: 2001-05-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William A. Trotter III, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Allison M. Lawler Misner Scott & Grate, Atlanta, Wendell E. Johnston Jr. and William J. Williams Johnston, Wilkin & Williams, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1220

    A developer who sold a structurally defective townhouse to the plaintiff could not insulate itself from liability for defects by claiming that any negligent work was performed by independent contra

  • Chaney v. Burdett

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Gaulden Jr., Duluth, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. William Haley Perrie, Buker, Jones & Morton PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1895

    Because the surviving partner elected to continue the business following dissolution of the par ip by operation of law, the deceased partner's widow had no right to compel liquidation of the pa

  • Patel v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-03-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce F. Morriss and Daniel Shim Morriss, Lober & Dobson LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Joseph J. Drolet, Solicitor General, Shukura L. Ingram and Craig E. Miller, Assistant Solicitors, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2390

    The trial court erred in concluding that it lacked discretion to grant defendant's motion for leniency on his misdemeanor sentences after the term of court in which the sentences were en

  • Arnold v. State

    Publication Date: 2001-02-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan J. Baverman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patrick H. Head, District Attorney, Timothy B. Lumpkin, Assistant District Attorney, Dana J. Norman, Assistant District Attorney, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2375

    Evidence that defendant threatened to shoot one of the arresting officers supported his convi for felony obstru

  • Harkins v. CA 14th Investors Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George A. Koenig Dennis, Corey, Porter & Gray, James S. Strawlinski and Nicole L. Wolfe, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William E. Zschunke, Melissa C. Duffey Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Allan R. Perry Jr., Marcus S. Sacks Kilpatrick Stockton LLP and R. Chris Irwin, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Matthew H. Patton and J. Michael Wiggins Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1990

    Former employee could not recover damages for the injuries he sustained when he slipped and fell in his former employer's parking lot because he executed a release discharging all claims against the