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  • Mayfield v. Heiman

    Publication Date: 2012-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Patrick Moore, Ross Ginsberg Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, James Voyles and Mark Milhollin The Voyles Milhollin Law Firm, Kennesaw, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Anthony Cochran, Todd Swanson Chilivis Cochran Larkins & Bever LLP, Paul Burke and Eric Mull Drew Eckl & Farnham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0355

    The statute of limitation barred the trust beneficiaries' claims against the trustee for breach of fiduciary duty and breach of trust, and the beneficiaries did not exercise due diligence to discove

  • Paulding County Ga., Bd. of Comm'rs v. Morrison

    Publication Date: 2012-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Dillard, Stephen Louis A.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Keith Wiener and Allen Hendrick Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Glen Stinson, Dallas, Thomas Hobgood Hobgood & Rutherford LLC and John Hennelly, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A0035; A12A0036; A12A0372; A12A0373

    O.C.G.A. § 9-11-11.1, the anti-SLAPP statute, allows a party defending a lawsuit to preserve its right to seek attorneys' fees and costs if the suit lacks substantial

  • June 30, 2012 |

    Expanded version: 6 cases and litigation trends affecting in-house counsel

    Litigation developments bring new challenges to legal departments

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  • June 30, 2012 |

    6 cases and litigation trends affecting in-house counsel

    Litigation developments bring new challenges to legal departments

    1 minute read

  • Northway v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2012-06-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles S. Herman Bignault & Carter, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard R. Rafter Ratchford & Rafter LLP, Claude M. Kicklighter Jr., Springfield, and Andrea A. Smart, Rincon, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0492

    The city council failed to state a claim for relief in its petition to remove an elected mayor from o

  • West Hamryka v. City of Dawsonville

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Edwin Hallman Jr., Zachary M. Wilson III and Richard A. Wingate Hallman & Wingate LLC, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana B. Miles Miles, Patterson, Hansfor, Tallant LLC, Cumming, Bambi N. Carswell, John A. Dickerson McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe LLP, Toccoa, and Larry L. Hicks II Moore & Hicks PC, Hartwell, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: Alphonso A. Howell IV, Timothy M Tanner Coleman Talley LLP, Valdosta, and Wendy S. Butler Coleman Talley LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0215; S12A0217; S12A0218

    The Court dismissed the appeals for failure to comply with the discretionary appeal procedures of O.C.G.A. § 5

  • Ellis v. Johnson

    Publication Date: 2012-06-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Donaldson III and Richard W. Fields Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit S. Dorough Jr., Albany, and Jesse G. Bowles III, Cuthbert, for appellees.
    Case Number: S12A0315

    O.C.G.A. § 15-9-120 2—defining probate court as ' "probate court of a county having a population of more than 96,000 persons according to the United States decennial s of 1990 or any future suc

  • Cook v. Board of Registrars of Randolph County

    Publication Date: 2012-05-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Maurice L. King Jr., Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Franklin T. Coleman III and Robert K. Raulerson Perry & Walters LLP, Albany, for appellee. Amicus Appellant: Nancy G. Abudu and M. Laughlin McDonald ACLU Foundation Inc., Atlanta.
    Case Number: S12A0140

    A determination of voter qualifications, not clearly linked to a particular election, does not bring the appeal under the Supreme Court's jurisdiction over cases of election contest within the meani

  • State v. Caffee

    Publication Date: 2012-04-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Richard K. Bridgeman, Assistant District Attorney, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jimmonique R. S. Rodgers, James C. Bonner Jr. and Sheueli C. Wang Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Appellate Division, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11A1529

    Double jeopardy did not bar a second trial for murder, kidnapping and related charges, since the trial court based its grant of a new trial on the improper admission of evidence, as opposed to the i

  • Diplomat Constr. Inc. v. State Bank of Texas

    Publication Date: 2012-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Johnson Knight Johnson LLC, and Ariel D. Zion The Bloom Law Firm LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Joshua J. Lewis, Eric J. Taylor Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP, and Paul H. Anderson Jr., Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A11A1836

    The testimony of the lender's valuation expert supported the trial court's conclusion that the auction price for the entire leasehold interest was