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  • Sumter Reg'l Hosp. Inc. v. Sumter Free Press Inc.

    Publication Date: 2001-04-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Fennessy Fennessy & Nettum, Americus, W. Terence Walsh and Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John V. Harper Harper & Barnes PC, Americus, and James F. Myers III, Columbus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2055

    There was no nexus between defendant's conduct in refusing to patronize plaintiff's advertisers and any loss of plaintiff's bus

  • Bethea v. Coralli

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William Q. Bird William Q. Bird & Assocs. PC and Karin L. A. Middleton, Atlanta, for Bethea, Robert P. Monyak and Anna B. Fretwell Love and Willingham, for Coralli. Other party representation: Thomas H. Nickerson, Alpharetta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A0414; A01A0415

    Because the trial court charged the jury that the plaintiff's consent to a medical procedure was not valid if obtained through fraudulent misrepresentation, the jury in returning a defense verdict n

  • Sawnee Elec. Membership Co. v. Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n.

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James A. Orr and Charles B. Jones III Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kevin C. Greene Troutman Sanders, Helen O'Leary Georgia Pub. Serv. Comm'n., James S. Hurt Consumer Util. Counsel Div., Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Daniel S. Walsh, Harold D. Melton and Robert S. Bomar, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: L. Clifford Adams Jr., Peter M. Degnan, Robert J. Middleton Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Richard G. Tisinger Sr. and Steven T. Minor Tisinger, Tisinger, Vance & Greer, Carrollton.
    Case Number: S00G0945

    The large-load customer choice exemption to the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act, O.C.G.A. § 46-3-1 et seq., did not apply to a 380-unit apartment complex where electric service to each apar

  • Brown v. Liberty County

    Publication Date: 2001-02-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ronald J. Freeman and Thomas A. Cox Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: James N. Osteen, Luther K. Davis Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, Dow N. Kirkpatrick II, Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Alycia D. Foggs-Anderson, Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A2413, A00A2414, A00A2415

    The trial court was not required to hold a sua sponte evidentiary hearing before determining the amount of attorneys' fees a tax commissioner owed the county because she consented to the court-order

  • Kittle v. Conagra Poultry Co.

    Publication Date: 2001-01-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cynthia N. Johnson Waycaster, Johnson, Morris & Dean, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: William F. Jourdain and Robert G. McCurry Minor, Bell & Neal, Dalton, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2518

    Plaintiff claims against defendant were barred by his failure to disclose them in his Chapter 7 bankruptcy pet

  • Gold Kist Inc. v. Wilson

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Richard R. Hays and Kenneth D. Steele Alston & Bird, Atlanta for appellant.
    for defendant: Douglas L. Gibson Gibson & Spivey, Waycross, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1254

    The trial court exceeded its scope of authority on remand when it reaffirmed its prior awards to the plaintiffs based on different theories of liab

  • Kelleher v. Pain Care of Ga. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2000-12-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. McMillan Walker, Dublin, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Clifton M. Iler and Laura L. Owens Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Merritt M. Wofford and H. Andrew Owen Jr. Harman, Owen, Saunders & Sweeney PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A2420

    Because the pain clinic had no right to control the doctor's treatment of his patients, the clinic was not vicariously liable for the doctor's alleged negligent acts involving a patient's overdose f

  • Eisenstein v. DiPrimio

    Publication Date: 2000-10-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay E. Loeb Olim & Loeb LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Keith J. Reisman Holland & Knight and J. William Boone Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A00A1413

    The law firm that received the proceeds of a usurious business loan from the debtor to satisfy an unrelated judgment was entitled to defend the tor's constructive trust claim by arguing that th

  • Leal v. Hobbs

    Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James T. McDonald Jr., Julia M.B. Haffke and Amy Greenstein Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Carol Deloach Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge, Smotherman, Martin & Price LLP, Walter H. Beckham III Kirwan, Parks, Chesin & Remar PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Vincent D. Hyman City of Atlanta and Kim E. Anderson Alston & Bird, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A00A1205

    Plaintiff failed to show that student intern was negligent in administering intravenous tions to her husband under the direct supervision of an ambulance para

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

    Publication Date: 2000-09-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter M. Britt Chandler & Britt, Ronald L. Reid Alston & Bird, Atlanta, Evan R. Chesler, Keith R. Hummel Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, for appellant.
    for defendant: . George W. Fryhofer III Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, H. Lamar Mixon, Michael B. Terry, Nancy L. Johnson, Joshua F. Thorpe Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, James E. Butler Jr., Albert M. Pearson III, Joel O. Wooten Jr., Cale H. Conley Butler, Wooten, Overby, Fryhofer, Daughtery & Sullivan, Columbus, for appellees. Other party representation: Gerald Davidson Jr. Anderson, Davidson & Tate, Lawrenceville.
    Case Number: A00A0120

    Theme park's general partner breached its fiduciary duty by making bad faith decisions as to the amount and type of capital improvements the theme park would re