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  • Benson v. Simon Property Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-03-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Salter Jr., Roy E. Barnes The Barnes Law Group LLC, Marietta, and Gary J. Toman Nations, Toman & McKnight LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Rebecca M. Lamberth, John L. Coalson Jr., Colin K. Kelly, Jay D. Bennett, Ethan D. Miller Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Charles C. Clay Brock Clay, Marietta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06G1286

    The Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act DUPA, OCGA § 44-12-190 et seq., did not apply to the plaintiffs' claims for damages resulting from dormancy fees and expiration dates associated with shoppi

  • Perdue v. O'Kelley

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Dennis R. Dunn, Deputy Attorney General, Stephen E. Ritter, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, Charles C. Stebbins III Warlick, Tritt & Stebbins LLP, Augusta, and Glen Lavy Alliance Defense Fund, Scottsdale, Ariz., for appellant.
    for defendant: John E. Stephenson Jr., Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Gerald R. Weber Jr., Elizabeth L. Littrell American Civil Liberties Union, and Jack H. Senterfitt Lambda Legal Defense and Educ. Fund, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Scott C. Titshaw Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, Miles J. Alexander, Alexander S. Clay, Michael W. Tyler and Jill Warner Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta. Amicus appellant: Brent M. Estes Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, Anita L. Staver, Erik W. Stanley, Rena M. Lindvaldsen and David M. Corry, Lynchburg, Va.
    Case Number: S06A1574

    Art. 1, Sec. 4, Par. 1 of the Georgia Constitution of 1983-which defines the recognition of marriage as only the union of man and woman and states that no union between persons of the same sex shall

  • Rabun County v. Mountain Creeks Estates LLC

    Publication Date: 2006-07-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Melton, Harold D.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Donald A. Cronin Jr. O'Quinn & Cronin, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michael H. Cummings II Cummings & Dillard, Clayton, T. Michael Tennant, A. McCampbell Gibson and Christina H. Eikhoff Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S06A0042; S06A0043

    The county was entitled to immunity with regard to a subdivision's claim for damages arising out of the county's refusal to accept ownership of the subdivision's roads, because the subdivision did n

  • Department of Transp. v. Meadow Trace Inc.

    Publication Date: 2006-06-30
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Ray O. Lerer, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, and Thomas L. Fitzgerald Hulsey, Oliver & Mahar, Gainesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Frank Armstrong III Stewart, Melvin & Frost LLP, Gainesville, T. Michael Tennant Alston & Bird LLP, Tim Carssow, Curtis A. Garrett Jr. and Thomas C. Harney Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05G1930

    Notations in a plat incorporated into a cannot vary or expand the right of access given in the

  • Fulton County v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2006-04-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Overtis H. Brantley, Willie J. Lovett Jr., Rory K. Starkey, Marina K. Duncan and Nicolle G. Holt, Fulton County Attorneys, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, Marc Goncher, Assistant City Attorney, Lisa F. Harper, Otto F. Feil III, Chorey, Taylor & Feil PC, Douglas A. Henderson, Troutman Sanders LLP, Robert D. Mowrey, David M. Meezan Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Robert C. Norman Jr. Jones, Cork & Miller, Macon, for appellees. Amicus appellee: Carlton L. Kell Brock, Clay & Calhoun PC, Marietta, and David Biderman National Solid Wastes Management Assoc., Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S06A0049

    O.C.G.A. § 36-2-26 a unconstitutionally impairs the free flow of interstate commerce by giving the county where a landfill sits the authority to veto the importation of solid

  • Killearn Partners Inc. v. Southeast Properties Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary S. Freed and William J. Piercy Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . T. Michael Tennant, A. McCampbell Gibson and Wade W. Pearson Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellee: Seth G. Weissman and Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G1320

    Nothing in the plain and explicit terms of the Georgia Brokerage Relationships in Real Estate Transactions Act precludes a broker from recovering under common law in the absence of a brokerage agr

  • Hughey v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. O'Day, Andrew M. Thompson Smith, Gambrell & Russell and Justine I. Thompson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, John E. Hennelly, William R. Phillips, Assistant Attorneys General, Lee A. DeHihns III. Daniel N. Esrey and William B. Carver Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Paul E. Andrew Andrew, Merritt, Reilly & Smith, Lawrenceville, Harry L. Cashin Jr., Mary M. Asbill, D. Lee Biola, Atlanta, Clyde Y. Morris Jr., Alpharetta, and Iryna A Kwasny, Oakland, Calif. Amicus appellee: Patricia L. Barmeyer and Lewis B. Jones King & Spaulding, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G0873

    Georgia's anti-degradation rules require a permittee to utilize the highest and best level of treatment practicable under existing techn

  • John Crane Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2004-11-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ollie M. Harton, Elizabeth B. Padgett Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, and Michael A. Pollard Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
    for defendant: Roger B. Lane Lane & Gossett, Brunswick, for appellees. Amicus appellants: Dow N. Kirkpatrick II, J. Kennard Neal, Orlyn O. Lockard III Alston & Bird LLP, Daniel S. Reinhardt Troutman Sanders, Sara S. Turnipseed, Thomas F. Wamsley Jr. Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Jay B. Bryan Hunton & Williams, Emily R. Bramer, Atlanta, Hugh B. McNatt McNatt & Greene, Vidalia, Robert M. Brinson Brinson Askew Berry Seigler Richardson, Rome, J. Thomas Whelchel Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, Joe D. Hollingsworth and Eric G. Lasker, Washington, D.C.
    Case Number: S03G1791

    An individual tortfeasor's conduct does not have to constitute a "substantial contributing factor" with regard to a plaintiff's injury where the plaintiff is allegedly injured due to separate tortio

  • O'Kelley v. Cox

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John E. Stephenson Jr., Jeffrey J. Swart Alston & Bird LLP, Elizabeth L. Littrell American Civil Liberties Union, and Jack H. Senterfitt Lambda Legal Defense and Ed. Fund, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Stefan E. Ritter, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus appellant: Robin F. Clark Jewett & Clark LLC, Scott C. Titshaw Arnall, Golden & Gregory LLP, Miles J. Alexander, Alexander S. Clay, Michael W. Tyler and Jill Warner Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S05A0236

    Georgia courts cannot encroach upon the legislative process and do not have any authority to bar the general election from proceeding exactly as it is presently sche

  • Reynolds v. Harrison

    Publication Date: 2004-10-29
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Pruett Haygood & Pruett, William J. Linkous Jr. and Nicole J. Wade Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John C. Sawyer, Jay D. Bennett Alston & Bird, Atlanta, John E. Stell Jr. Russell, Stell, Smith McLocklin PC, Winder, and J. C. Highsmith Jr. Stewart, Melvin & Frost LLP, Gainesville, for appellees.
    Case Number: S04A1273

    The affidavit of the attorney who drafted the testator's will could not be used to shed light on the testator's intent where the terms of the will were plain and unambi