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  • April 25, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    'Gulf Fleet' a Lexicon for Sponsors, Affiliate Transfers and Failed LBOs

    Litigation over affiliate transactions arising in failed portfolio companies continues to provide guidance on core common issues such as breach of fiduciary duties, avoidance actions, equitab

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  • Norred v. Teaver

    Publication Date: 2013-04-01
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Boggs, Michael P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Wright Katz Stepp Wright & Fleming LLC, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard Tisinger Tisinger,Vance PC, Carrollton, for appellees.
    Case Number: A12A2413

    O.C.G.A. § 9-3-72—which provides a 1-year statute of limitation for medical malpractice actions based on foreign objects left in a patient's body—applies to objects intentionally left in a patient'

  • March 26, 2013 | FC&S Insurance

    Insurance Appraisals Can Resolve Disputed Property and Business Interruption Claims

    Insurance Appraisals Can Resolve Disputed Property and Business Interruption ClaimsBy Timothy P. Law and Anthony B. CrawfordThe authors suggest that the…

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  • Silliman v. Cassell

    Publication Date: 2013-02-20
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martha A. Miller Schulten Ward & Turner, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Eric E. Thorstenberg, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12Q1936

    The single-premium fixed annuity at issue was of the type intended to come within the bankruptcy exemption O.C.G.A. § 44-13-100 a 2 E pro

  • Brundige v. State

    Publication Date: 2012-10-19
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin A. Pearlman, Public Defender, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, and Antonio E. Veal District Attorney's Office, Winder, for appellee.
    Case Number: S11G1821

    Heat loss, which a thermal scanner can measure and record, does not fit within the scope of tangible evidence as that term is used in O.C.G.A. § 17-5-21 a 5—authorizing a search warrant for ' "the

  • October 4, 2012 | International

    Asia Deal Digest: October 4, 2012

    Japan Morrison & Foerster is advising Japanese Internet and telecommunications group Softbank Corp. in its $2.3 billion acquisition of eAccess, a ri

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  • August 17, 2012 | FC&S Insurance

    Insurer''s Duty to Defend Not Triggered Where Underlying Complaint Only Alleged Damage to Building under Construction, Not to Other Property

    The rules governing application of the policy provisions in a standard occurrence-based commercial general liability (“CGL”) policy in the…

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  • 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

  • East Georgia Land and Dev. Co LLC v. Newton County

    Publication Date: 2012-03-23
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jimmy L. Paul and Drew V. Greene Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Peter R. Olson Olson Law LLC, Cartersville, Edward D. Tolley Cook, Noell, Tolley & Bates LLP, Athens, William T. Craig and James B. Griffin, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S12A0114

    Although the establishment of a copy of a zoning ordinance made it an evidentiary substitute for t ginal, it remained subject to any validity or enforcement issues that could be raised against

  • February 3, 2012 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves and Promotions in The Am Law 200

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has bolstered its white-collar criminal defense practice with the hire of GREG ANDR

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