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  • Gulfstream Aerospace Servs. Corp. v. United States Aviation Underwriters Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-07-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher D. Britt and Brent J. Savage Savage, Turner, Pinson & Karsman, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Fred S. Clark Clark, Clark & Steinmetz, Savannah, Jon A. Kodani and Jeffrey J. Williams Law Office of Jon A. Kodani, Santa Monica, Calif., for appellees. Other party representation: J. Arthur Mozley Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A06A0660

    Under the economic loss rule, ' "a party suffering only economic loss from the breach of an express or implied contractual duty may not assert a tort claim for such a breach absent an independent du

  • Vo v. Yamaha Golf-Car Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-05-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James B. Blackburn Jr. and Patrick F. Roughen Jr. Wiseman, Blackburn & Futrell, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joseph H. Barrow Barrow & Ballew PC, G. Mason White Brennan, Harris & Rominger, Wiley A. Wasden III Brennan & Wasden, Savannah, Stephen L. Cotter and Michael Carestia Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other Party Representation: R. Stephen Sims Barrow & Sims PC, Savannah, George W. Steel and Harvey Kruse, Flint, MI.
    Case Number: A04A0110; A04A0111

    The Death on the High Seas Act pre-empted the administrators' state law claims for the decedents' injuries and their pre-death pain and suffering after their boat capsized approximately 25 miles off

  • Head v. Wachovia Bank N.A.

    Publication Date: 2003-12-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William L. Bost Jr. Greenfield, Bost & Kliros PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Ralph R. Morrison and Gregory R. Hanthorn Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Charles D. Hurt Jr., Nikola R. Djuric Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Wayne R. Vason Troutman Sanders, Russell D. Waldon Harper, Waldon & Craig, Nickolas P. Chilivis Chilivis, Cochran, Larkins & Bever, F. T. Davis Jr. Long, Aldridge & Norman, William M. Ellard Cushing, Morris, Arbruster & Jones, and James R. Kanner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A1568

    A trust beneficiary presented no grounds for setting aside an order enforcing a consent agreement between the trust and its 53 benefici

  • Jerry Dickerson Presents Inc. v. Concert/Southern Chastain Promotions

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry R. Bauer Jr. Bauer & Deitch, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Edward K. Smith Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Susan A. Cahoon and Michael W. Tyler Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Kendric E. Smith City of Atlanta Dep't of Law, Diane P. Flannery, Dean A. Calloway Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Samira Jones Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A0680

    A business arrangement between Chastain Park's concert promoter and a mi -owned concert promotion business, under which a percentage of the venue's available event dates were subleased to the m

  • Cooley v. City of Carrollton

    Publication Date: 2001-04-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Graylin C. Ward, Newnan, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Brenda A. Raspberry, Assistant Attorney General, Harry W. Bassler Crim & Bassler, Atlanta, and Caryl S. Black, Dunwoody, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0889

    City's exclusive use and control of college's pool during program sessions for the disabled rendered immune from liability under the Recreational Propert

  • February 7, 2005 | Texas Lawyer

    Compass Bank v. MFP Financial Services Inc.

    Click here for the full text of this decisionFACTS: MFP Financial Services leases computer equipme

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  • March 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Cooley Law School Wins One, Loses One in Court

    Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School dodged one legal bullet this week but got hit with another -- in two separate lawsuits invo

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  • August 9, 2012 | National Law Journal

    Tenure didn't protect law professor's job, 6th Circuit rules

    Tenure does not guarantee a job for life, a federal appeals court has declared in affirming the dismissal of a former professor's lawsuit against the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michi

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  • March 18, 2010 | National Law Journal

    Not Moot Court: Law School Scores a Win - and a Loss - in Separate Suits

    Michigan's Thomas M. Cooley Law School dodged one legal bullet this week but got hit with another — in two separate lawsuits involving a professor and a student.

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  • August 7, 2007 | National Law Journal

    Cooley Law School Faces Nepotism Claims From Former Assistant Dean

    Although the nation's largest law school saw an end to one protracted legal battle earlier this year, it now has another court fight on its hands that alleges nepotism involving a Michigan appe

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