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    Corporations Caught In Rising Tide Of FCPA Enforcement

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  • Studio X v. Weener

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mike D. Harrison, Marietta, and Jeffrey M. Smith Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James T. McDonald Jr. Swift, Currie, McGee & Hiers, and David B. Meltz John Marshall Law Sch., Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A1316

    The plaintiffs failed to show that the defendants committed legal malpractice in attempting to exercise the plain right of first refusal on property, which the lease did not obligate the plai

  • Jones v. Orris

    Publication Date: 2005-07-15
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert C. Koski The Koski Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sterling G. Culpepper Alston & Bird, Lori G. Cohen Greenberg Traurig LLP, Jonathan C. Peters Love & Willingham LLP, and Mary P. Tucker, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A05A0703

    The evidence in the record did not support the plaintiff's expert's opinion regarding the proximate cause of her inj

  • WirelessMD Inc. v. Healthcare.com Corp.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Cornwell, Boca Raton, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Ernest L. Greer and Joseph H. Akers Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A04A2174

    It was not absolutely necessary to imply a duty on the part of the defendant to market the software it bought from the plaintiff, since the parties' Purchase Agreement provided for an immediate cred

  • Kellett v. Klein

    Publication Date: 2004-06-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mark G. Trigg Greenberg Traurig, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ezra B. Jones III Pendergast & Jones PC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A04A0648

    A general partner had sufficient notice of the issues raised in the limited partners' motion for contempt based on defendant's underpayment of their preferred return since the motion was filed a fu

  • Weiss v. Old Republic Nat'l Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Brady S. McFalla Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, and Nicole L. Day Greenberg, Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: William B. Brown and Jacqueline Marcucci Heyman & Sizemore LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.

    Case Number: A03A0247

    The plaintiffs did not waive their right to assert a claim for breach of ty of title by not filing a written objection pursuant to the terms of the sales contract because the provisions of the

  • Yancey v. Poe

    Publication Date: 2002-04-12
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terence G. Kelly, Mableton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Spears Jr., Decatur, and Michael J. King Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1803

    The trial court's amended summary judgment order extended the 30-day time period for filing the notice of appeal because the amended order changed the parties' substantive r

  • Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. v. City of Atlanta.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-01
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Bassett Jr., Jennifer N. Stephens King & Spalding, Tony G. Powers Rogers & Hardin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Susan P. Langford, City Attorney, William H. McLean IV City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Nicholas C. Moraitakis Mills, Moraitakis & Kushel, Hezekiah Sistrunk Jr. Sistrunk & Assocs., Ernest L. Greer Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: David J. Bailey Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Timothy A. Bumann Budd, Larner, Gross, Rosenbaum, Greenbert, R. Clay Porter, Alisa W. Terry Dennis, Corry, Porter & Gray, James M. Poe Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, and Melissa M. Bumann, Yorkville, Ill.

    Case Number: A01A2521

    O.C.G.A. § 16-11-184 expressly pre-empts the field of firearms regul

  • Southern Intermodal Logistics Inc. v. D. J. Powers Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-11-02
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Brice Ladson Ladson & Suthers LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Patricia T. Paul Oliver, Maner & Gray, Savannah, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley, Bates & Michael LLP, Kim T. Stephens, Athens, Robert E. Spears Jr. Greenberg & Traurig LLP, and Michael J. King, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A01A1618

    A jury question remained as to when plaintiff discovered or should have discovered its injury from the defendants' alleged wrongful co

  • Accolades Apartments LP v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2001-07-13
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John G. Parker, Joseph C. Sharp Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Atlanta, for Accolades Apartments LP. William R. Turner, County Attorney, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Marcia M. Ernst, William Van Hearnburg Jr. Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Shellie R. Cherner, Nicholas G. Dumich Hewitt, Katz & Dumich, Thomas R. Walker Troutman Sanders LLP, Terrill A. Parker Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Beryl H. Weiner, Richard H. Deane Jr., James R. Schulz, Assistant United States Attorney, John Drake Cole Henderson Drake Inc., Nan H. Newman Georgia Power Co., Glenn R. Austin Federal National Mortgage Assoc., L. L. Edge Consolidated Equities Corp., General Electric Corp., General Electric Capital Corp. CT Corp. Sys., Lumbermans Mut. Ins. Co., Atlanta, W. R. Robertson III, Marietta, Thomas Allen Union Central Life Ins. Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, Siamak Kusha Owen, Ayers & Assocs. Inc., Tampa, Fla., Carol Russell State of Maryland Deposit Ins. Fund, Hunt Valley, Md., and GE Appliances Electric Corp., Fairfield, Conn., for Fulton County and others. Amicus Appellant: William H. Dodson II Dodson, Feldman & Dorough LLP, Aasia Mustakeem Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, and Carol V. Clark McCalla, Raymer, Padrick, Cobb & Nichols, Roswell Accolades Apartments LLP v. Fulton County. Michael J. King, Robert E. Spears Jr. and Joseph H. Akers Greenberg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, for Aaron Rents Inc. Joseph G. Davis, Laura L. McGinty Welch, Spell, Reemsnyder, Pless & Davis, William B. Brown Heyman & Sizemore LLC, Marcia M. Ernst Smith, Gambrell & Russell, John G. Parker Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Warren R. Calvert, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta for Fourteenth Street Ventures LP Aaron Rents Inc. v. Fourteenth Street Ventures LP.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: S00G0952; S00G1477

    The rights and responsibilities of the individual joint venturers determine whether a partnership is f even if the documents controlling the venture expressly state that no partnership was f