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  • Muscogee County Bd. of Tax Assessors v. Pace Indus. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Travis C. Hargrove and Kirsten C. Stevenson Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, Columbus, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mary T. Benton and Timothy J. Peaden Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1856

    The freeport exemption did not apply to a company's inventory in Georgia because the company was not holding the inventory for final shipment outside of the

  • Atlantic Station LLC v. Vratsinas Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Shanlever and John I. Spangler III Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kent P. Smith and Stephen G. Joy Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1134

    The appellant waived its right to stay arbitration in a dispute over $4.5M in invoices rendered from 1999-2004 in connection with development consulting services provided in connection with the cons

  • Alston & Bird LLP v. Mellon Ventures II LP

    Publication Date: 2010-12-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas W. Curvin and Amy K. Averill Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, and Edward D. Tolley, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Edwin J. Schklar, J. James Johnson, William B. Ney, Magdalena M. Heim and Michael R. Peacock Schklar, Ney & Heim LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A10A1563

    The trial court properly denied appellants' motion for summary judgment because the arguments therein hinged primarily on the depositions and affidavit of a manager whose credibility appellees vigor

  • Johnson v. Leibel

    Publication Date: 2010-12-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, Jenny E. Jensen and Richard E. Harris Jones, Jensen & Harris, Norcross, for Johnson. Michael J. Goldman, Christine L. Mast, Joseph H. Wieseman Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Michael J. Bowers and David J. Marmins Balch & Bingham, Atlanta, for Liebel. Other party representation: Peter H. Schmidt II Taylor, Odachowski, Sperry & Crossland LLC, St. Simons Island.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A1047; A10A1048

    The trial court erred in granting a new trial in a legal malpractice case, because a juror's failure to disclose during voir dire that appellant attorney represented the plaintiff in a 1992 case aga

  • Atlantic Station LLC v. Vratsinas Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael H. Shanlever and John I. Spangler III Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kent P. Smith and Stephen G. Joy Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1134

    The appellant waived its right to stay arbitration in a dispute over $4.5M in invoices rendered from 1999-2004 in connection with development consulting services provided in connection with the cons

  • Kappelmeier v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am.

    Publication Date: 2010-09-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gottfried A. Kappelmeier, Duluth, proceeded pro se. Ryan J. Lewis Alston & Bird LLP, Kenton J. Coppage Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Atlanta, Michael P. Johnson McMickle, Kurey & Branch LLP, Alpharetta, and Sandra D. Hauser Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, New York, NY, for appellant.
    for defendant: .
    Case Number: A10A1341

    Appellant's purposeful omission from the record on appeal of all documents filed by appellee relating to its motion for summary judgment rendered a de novo review impos

  • Fulton County, Ga. V. T-Mobile, South LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-08-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: R. David Ware, County Attorney, and Jerolyn W. Ferrari County Attorney's Office, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Timothy J. Peaden, Kristine M. Brown, Clark R. Calhoun Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0913

    The 9-1-1 charge, which the county imposed on wireless telephone service providers was a tax and a wireless telephone provider was entitled to a refund for charges paid for all of its prepaid cust

  • State v. Ivory

    Publication Date: 2010-07-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and John O. Williams, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James W. Bryant, Public Defender's Office, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0659

    The three years and nine months delay violated the defendant's right to a speedy trial under the circumst

  • Jones v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-05-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Matthew A. Tucker Tucker & Assocs. Law Firm LLC and James W. Bradley, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, and Luana Popescu, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0064

    The trial court did not err in excluding evidence of the victim's violent threats to the def 's family, because no evidence showed that the def 's family communicated the threats to the de

  • Dabbs v. Key Equip. Fin. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-04-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: G. Brian Raley Raley & Sandifer, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Christopher A. Riley, Lisa K. Bojko Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and J. Blake Mayes Sacks Tierney PA, Scottsdale, Ariz., for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A0825

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to an equipment company and failing to grant summary judgment to the alleged guarantor/employee-the guaranty executed by employee was not enforceab