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  • Northwest Social and Civic Club Inc. v. Franklin

    Publication Date: 2003-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Alan I. Begner, Robert M. Adelson and Cory G. Begner Begner & Begner PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Linda K. DiSantis, City Attorney, R. Roger Bhandari and Kendric E. Smith, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S03A1037

    Appellant could not obtain a second review of its claims through a direct appeal after the Supreme Court denied its application for discretionary review on the m

  • 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

  • RCG Properties LLC v. City of Atlanta Bd. Of Zoning Adjustment

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter M. Degnan and Candace N. Smith Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan P. Langford, David D. Blum, Lemuel H. Ward City of Atlanta Law Dep't, Christine K. Huffine, Lisa A. Wade and Bradley S. Wolff Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A1669

    The superior court erred in dismissing the appeal of a decision of the city of Atlanta Board of Zoning Adjustment BZA for lack of standing because it was bound by the facts presented to the BZA and

  • Schneider v. Susquehanna Radio Corp.

    Publication Date: 2003-04-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ned Blumenthal Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Michael K. Jablonski, Marc B. Hershovitz, Atlanta, and C. Ronald Ellington, Athens, for Schneider and Gardner. Sean R. Smith, Edward A. Webb Dow, Lohnes & Albertson PLLC, Atlanta, and Scott D. Dailard Dow, Lohnes & Albertson PLLC, Washington, D.C., for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A02A1654; A02A1655

    The trial court erred in failing to consider whether the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act violates the defendant's right to freedom of s

  • Meeks v. City of Buford

    Publication Date: 2002-10-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony O. Powell Webb, Tanner & Powell LLP, Lawrenceville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Dana K. Maine Freeman, Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, and Gregory D. Jay Chandler & Britt LLC, Buford, for appellees.
    Case Number: S02A0698

    Plaintiffs had no vested rights to utilize their property in accordance with an unexercised zoning because plaintiffs made no substantial expenditures in rel on the var

  • Hall v. State

    Publication Date: 2002-03-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joshua D. Earwood, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas J. Campbell, District Attorney, and Sharon M. Fox, Assistant District Attorney, Cartersville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0587

    The trial court properly excluded the victim's prior accusation of molestation because defendant failed to show that the accusation had a reasonable probability of being

  • BP Exploration & Oil Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald L. Mize Jr., George N. Mori, Douglas G. Scribner and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for BP Exploration & Oil. Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Gary C. Christy Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, and Christopher N. Smith, Macon, for Jones. Other party representation: William D. Harrison Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, and Luanne Clark Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rogers PC, Albany.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A1207; A01A1208

    A n l oil company was not vicariously liable for the plaintiff's injuries at an independently owned gas st

  • East Beach Properties Ltd. v. Taylor

    Publication Date: 2001-08-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Anthony H. Abbott and Laurie K. Abbott Abbott & Abbott, Savannah, for East Beach Properties Ltd. George M. Rountree George M. Rountree & Assocs. PC, for Taylor. Christopher J. O'Donnell, Brunswick, for Ryals. Other party representation: W. Gary Moore, Glynn County Attorney, and Desiree E. Watson, Assistant County Attorney, Brunswick.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A0028; A01A0029; A01A0030

    In consolidated cases involving a dispute over the permissible use of beach easements, the trial court properly found that the burdened land could only be developed subject to the rights of the ease

  • CIBA Vision Corp. v. Jackson

    Publication Date: 2001-04-13
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward K. Smith and Paul G. Willaims Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, Warren R Calvert and Daniel M. Formby, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A2123

    Free samples of contact lenses given to eye-care professionals are subject to taxation under O.C.G.A. § 48

  • Ford v. Smith

    Publication Date: 2001-03-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philippa V. Tibbs Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney and Charles M. Goetz Jr. Goetz, Tibbs & Zahler, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: John T. Sparks Austin & Sparks, PC, John G. Malcolm and Robert F. Schroeder Malcolm & Schroeder, LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0802

    The trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the plaintiffs after granting them a new trial in their negligence suit against the defendant because material issues of fact rem