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  • Kovacs v. Cornerstone Nat'l Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-10-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard Sanders, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jason Darneille Crim & Bassler LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Joshua Lockhart and Michelle Lockhart, Savannah, proceeded pro se.
    Case Number: A12A0821

    The automobile insurer was not required to provide coverage in the underlying injury suit, which arose after the insured's son hit a pedestrian in a covered vehicle, as the policy's unlisted househo

  • In the Interest of E. E. B. W.

    Publication Date: 2012-10-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Monica Hanrahan Hanrahan Freitag Family Law LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert Baker, Attorney General, Shalen Nelson, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Elizabeth Williamson Attorney General's Office, Lytia Brown Brown Geiger & Associates, and Suparna Joshi John Marshall Law School, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Elizabeth Price Alston & Bird, Lashawn Mikell Office of the Child Advocate, Ruth Claiborne Claiborne & Surmay PC, Jean Kutner, Atlanta, and Joseph Rosen, Roswell.
    Case Number: A12A1468

    The juvenile court properly exercised subject matter jurisdiction over the termination of adoptive parents' parental rights of a minor child born in and a citizen of Zambia, who lived in Fulton Coun

  • Patel v. Epps

    Publication Date: 2012-08-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Andrew Flake Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jon Gottlieb Flynn & Gottlieb PA, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A12A0480

    The appellant was required to file a discretionary appeal in a case involving superior court review of the decision of a special master appointed under the Auditors St

  • The Landings Ass'n Inc v. Williams

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
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    Case Number: S11G1263; S11G1277

    The owners of a planned resid development were entitled to summary judgment in a premises liability suit arising from a fatal alligator attack because the victim had equal knowledge of the po

  • Leibel v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael J. Goldman, Christine L. Mast and Joseph H. Wieseman Hawkins, Parnell, Thackston & Young LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird Bird, Loechl, Brittain & McCants, Atlanta, Jenny E. Jensen and Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, Norcross, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G0557

    Expert testimony as to causation is not appropriate in a legal malpractice

  • June 19, 2012 | Corporate Counsel

    Corporate Counsel's ITC Survey 2012: A Niche With Staying Power

    It's almost become a lawyer meme that the International Trade Commission, a once-obscure quasi-judicial body, is a hot forum for patent disputes because it handles cases qu

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  • June 1, 2012 |

    Hirschhorn v. Auto–Owners Ins. Co.

    Click here for FC&S Legal Expert Analysis338 Wis.2d 761Supreme Court of Wisconsin.Joel HIRSCHHORN and Evelyn F. Hirschhorn, Plaintiffs–Appellants,v.AUTO–OWNERS…

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  • Standard Bldg. Co. Inc. v. Schofield Interior Contractors Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mary K. Durant, Tucker, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ron L. Quigley, Vincent J. Arpey, Matthew R. Thiry and Mina A. Elmankabady Davis Matthews & Quigley PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A11A1869

    The Court of Appeals could not consider the defendants' challenge to the special master's appointment to consider their post-trial motions, even though the trial court's failure to provide notice to

  • Dunn-Craft v. State Farm Mut. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Terry D. Jackson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John B. Craig, Kevin P. Reardon Harper, Waldon & Craig, Christopher T. Byrd, Earl W. Gunn, McLendon W. Garrett Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Michael J. Rust, Christopher M. Ziegler Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP, Atlanta, Robert C. Harrison Downey & Cleveland LLP, Marietta, William T. Mitchell and Andrew S. Ashby Cruser & Mitchell LLP, Norcross, for appellees. Other party representation: Denise D. Hoying, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A11A2420

    The plaintiff was not entitled to stack the UM coverage provided in her boyfriend's four insurance pol

  • Bradley v. Winn-Dixie Stores Inc.

    Publication Date: 2012-03-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackwell, Keith R.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leslie S. Jean-Bart Farah & Farah PA, Jacksonville, Fla. and James H. Wyman Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for appellant.
    for defendant: Paul Buschmann Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A2238

    The trial court erred in applying the rule set out in Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc., 256 Ga. 27 1986, to conclude that the plaintiff failed to establish that the grocery store had const