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  • Time Warner Entertainment Co. LP v. Six Flags Over Ga. LLC

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Buford, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, John J. Dalton Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler and Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, N.Y., for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Butler Jr., George W. Fryhofer III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daugherty & Sullivan, Albert M. Pearson III Moraitakis, Kushel & Pearson, H. Lamar Mixson, Michael B. Terry, Nancy J. Walsh and Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Davidson & Tucker LLP, Duluth.
    Case Number: A00A0120

    The Court of Appeals overruled Kent v. A. O. White Jr., Consulting Engineers PC, A01A0756 1/29/02, 02 FCDR 374, to the extent that it held that the Georgia Supreme Court adopted the standard set for

  • Kull v. Six Flags Over Ga. LP

    Publication Date: 2002-04-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph D. Perrotta, Louis R. Feingold Northcutt, Edwards, Gordon & Feingold, and Joseph H. King Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert E. Mulholland Savell & Williams and Andrew M. Gibson Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2315

    A jury question remained as to whether the plaintiff assumed the risk of injury by inserting metal pliers into a light socket on electronic scoreboard since the evidence did not show that the plaint

  • GSW Inc. v. The Dep't of Natural Resources

    Publication Date: 2002-04-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Linwood R. Lovett, Paul R. Ayerbe and Bridgette M. Cooper Lovett, Cowart & Ayerbe LLC, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Devon A. Orland, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A1759

    O.C.G.A. § 50-13-19 h 1 allows a superior court to consider a claim raised in an administrative hearing that a statute is unconstitutional both on its face and as applied provided that the claim is

  • Mathis v. Orkin Exterminating Co. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Arthur S. Archibald, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Andrew J. Hill III Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Athens, and Christopher G. Conley, Blasingame, Burch, Garrard, Bryant & Ashley, Greensboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2114

    A non-solicitation clause prohibiting a former employee from engaging in the pest control business within a specified territory for two years following the termination of his employment with the pl

  • Kmart Corp v. Merriweather

    Publication Date: 2002-03-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James C. Grant, Nowell D. Berreth and Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John B. Levy and Michael Weinstock Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2298

    The Court could not consider defendants' challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence because they failed to include all of the evidence presented at trial in the appellate r

  • Hansen v. Cooper

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sarah M. Wayman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ian R. Rapaport Chambers, Aholt & Rickard LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A1865

    The plaintiff failed to show that defendants had actual of constructive notice of an alleged water hazard in their yard caused by their allegedly defective sprinkler s

  • Mantooth v. American Nat'l Red Cross

    Publication Date: 2002-02-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain and Wendell R. Bird Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Alan M. Maxwell, Howard J. Russell Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial, Scott P. Hilsen Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, Robert L. Berry Jr. and Stephen B. Moseley Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A2276

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in opening defendant's default where defendant reasonably believed that the complaint was being handled pro

  • Focus Entertainment Int'l Inc. v. Partridge Greene Inc.

    Publication Date: 2002-01-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, and Michael A. Prieto, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . T. Michael Tennant, Elizabeth Bertschi and Daniel N. Esrey Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A01A2486

    An adult entertainment store had actual notice by rule nisi that an interlocutory hearing had been ordered on plaintiff's claim of breach of a restrictive covenant prohibiting the sale or display of

  • Owens v. DeKalb Med. Ctr. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-12-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry E. Stewart, Lawrenceville, and Charles R. Adam III Adams & Adams, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Karl M. Braun Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover PC, Steven D. Caley and Leigh M. Wilco Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0964

    A jury question remained as to whether a senior living ty failed in its duty to exercise ordinary care for its resident who tripped and fell while attempting to exit a revolving door after the

  • BP Exploration & Oil Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald L. Mize Jr., George N. Mori, Douglas G. Scribner and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for BP Exploration & Oil. Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Gary C. Christy Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, and Christopher N. Smith, Macon, for Jones. Other party representation: William D. Harrison Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, and Luanne Clark Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rogers PC, Albany.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A1207; A01A1208

    A n l oil company was not vicariously liable for the plaintiff's injuries at an independently owned gas st