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  • RTS Landfill Inc. f/k/a Sanifill of Ga. Inc. v. Appalachian Waste Sys. LLC

    Publication Date: 2004-04-16
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Henry F. Sewell Jr. and Sarah McCormack Long, Aldridge & Norman LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Seaton D. Purdom, Robert G. Brazier and Steven G. Hall Gambrell & Stolz LLC, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A2027

    The Court reversed the grant of declaratory relief to the defendant on its counterclaim concerning the enforceability of an agreement between the parties because the trial court failed to apply the

  • Wachovia Bank of Ga. v. Namik

    Publication Date: 2004-01-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William J. Linkous Jr., Nicole J. Wade and David G. Ross Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for Wachovia. Robert J. Kaufman, Stephen R. Klorfein, Charlotte K. Perrell and Jason S. Adler Kaufman, Chaiken, Miller & Klorfein LLC, Atlanta, for Namik et. al. Other party representation: Bertram L. Levy Arnall, Golden & Gregory, Atlanta.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A2198, A03A2199

    A bank had no duty, as trustee of a customer's simple revocable living trust, to provide estate tax planning a

  • In the Interest of K. N. C. et al, children

    Publication Date: 2003-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sheryl D. Fambrough, Monroe, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tony D. Coy, Athens, for appellee. Other party representation: David F. Dickinson Dickinson, Mixson & Willis, Monroe, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1865

    Juvenile court was proper forum to adjudicate custodial grandmother's petition to terminate the mother's parental rights to two of her chi

  • Perdue v. Baker

    Publication Date: 2003-09-26
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank C. Jones, Macon, Kirk M. McAlpin Jr., Carlton M. Henson Cushing, Morris, Armbruster & Montgomery, Atlanta, and Kelly R. Burke, District Attorney, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael E. Hobbs, Assistant Attorney General, Richard H. Sinkfield, Robert B. Remar, Ashley R. Hurst, Julie K. Bracker Rogers & Hardin LLP, Randi E. Schnell, Jeffrey O. Bramlett and Emmet J. Bondurant Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: John O. Cole and David G. Oedel Mercer University Law School, Macon. Amicus appellee: Anne S. Emanuel Georgia State University, Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore LLP, Atlanta, William H. Pryor Jr., Attorney General, Margaret H. Fleming, Assistant Attorney General, and Nathan A. Forrester, Solicitor General, Montgomery, Ala.
    Case Number: S03A1154

    Georgia's Governor had no clear right to order the Attorney General to dismiss an appeal he filed on the state's behalf in the United States Supreme

  • Georgia Dep't of Community Health, Div. of Health Planning v. Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-09-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Robert S. Bomar, Clyde L. Reese, Deputy Attorneys General, Harold D. Melton, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Sidney R. Barrett Jr., Assistant Attorneys General, and James D. Coots, Atlanta, for Georgia Dep't of Community Health. Jeffrey C. Baxter, Stanley S. Jones Jr. and Jennifer D. Malinovsky Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, for EHCA LLC. Randall L. Hughes, Adrienne E. Marting, Charlotte A. Combre And John S. Rees Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for Gwinnett Hosp. Sys. Alexander S. Clay Kilpatrick & Cody, John W. Ray, Dawnmarie Rodziewicz and James M. Sherman Ray & Sherman, Atlanta, for Saint Joseph's Hosp. Other Party Representation: Kathy K. Dorough Dorough & Dorough LLC, Decatur.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A03A1214; A03A1215; A03A1216; A03A1217

    The provisions of O.C.G.A. § 31-6-2 14, including the 12-month service rule, establish when an institution must apply for a hospital certificate of need, not whether an application is for a "new" or

  • Bryant v. Hoffman La Roche Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird and Jonathan T. McCants Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard B. North Jr., Matthew B. Lerner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, and Leslie J. Bobo Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0661

    Once a prima facie case for design defect is established, a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that 1 the product is properly manufactured a

  • David v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William C. Head, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and Shampa Banerji, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1108

    O.C.G.A. § 40-6-391 k 1 could serve as the statutory predicate for the charged offense of first degree vehicular homicide, since the state was required to prove that the 17-year-old defendant's alco

  • In the Interest of J. W. K.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William R. Thompson Jr., Calhoun, for appellant.
    for defendant: James F. Ledbetter and Joseph D. Little, Calhoun, for appellee. Other party representation: George P. Govignon Bailey & Govignon, Calhoun.
    Case Number: A01A2290

    Former O.C.G.A. § 15-11-58 was inapplicable to a private child deprivation proceeding where the juvenile court did not order removal of the child from his

  • Gardner v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Shandor S. Badaruddin, Missoula, Mont., for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0370

    The trial court properly denied the defendant's untimely motion to pursue a mental illness de

  • 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