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  • October 4, 2013 | The American Lawyer

    The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

    Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman creates a new entertainment practice; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's global managing partner resigns to go in house at an energy-focused investment firm in Bo

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  • Atlanta Indep. Sch. Sys. v. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter Sch. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-09-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas A. Cox and Christopher J. Hoffman Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Rocco E. Testani and Lee A. Peifer Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus Appellee: John J. Park Jr., Atlanta, Mariem L. Hubbard, Joshua P. Thompson, and Lana Harfoush Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, Calif.
    Case Number: S13A0987

    The plain language of the statutory funding formula set out in the Charter Schools Act of 1998, O.C.G.A. § 20-2-2068.1 subsection c, does not authorize a school system to deduct its unfunded pension

  • September 24, 2013 |

    Oregon’s Worker’s Compensation Rates to Drop in 2014

    Worker’s compensation costs will decrease an average 7.6 percent in 2014 in Oregon thanks to lower medical costs and fewer and smaller claims for…

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  • September 6, 2013 |

    “Your Product” Exclusion Applies to Insured’s Sliding Glass Doors Even After Transoms Had Been Added, Florida Appeals Court Decides

    A Florida appellate court has ruled that the “your product” exclusion applied to bar coverage for costs incurred by an insured manufacturer…

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  • Thompson v. LaFarge Bldg. Materials Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-08-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Hylton Dupree and Blake Carl Dupree & Kimbrough LLP, Marietta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott Schweber Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Allen, and John Williams Dietrick, Evans, Scholz & Williams, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A13A0740

    LaFarge Bldg. Materials v. Pratt, 307 Ga. App. 767 2011, adversely decided the issue of whether the individual defendant's personal guaranty satisfied the Statute of Frauds in this suit on an accoun

  • Hunter v. Emory-Adventist Inc.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-23
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Branch, Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph King, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Natalie Beasman and James Meadows Balch & Bingham, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0189

    The defendant hospital was protected from vicarious liability in the medical malpractice lawsuit because it fully complied with Georgia law in posting notice in a public area of the hospital regard

  • Scarborough v. Hunter

    Publication Date: 2013-07-17
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian C. Ranck Sanders & Ranck PC, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James E. Cornwell Jr. Cornwell Law Offices, Toccoa, for appellees.
    Case Number: S13A0060

    The trial court erred in setting aside the county Board of Commissioners' dec to abandon a county road, as it failed to accord proper deference to the Board's dec

  • July 12, 2013 |

    Temporary Worker (and Coverage) or Leased Worker (and No Coverage)? Massachusetts Appeals Court Decides for Coverage

    An appellate court in Massachusetts has affirmed a trial court’s decision that a worker supplied to an insured by a labor leasing firm was “furnished…

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  • Harris v. Holder Constr. Co.

    Publication Date: 2013-07-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Albert Yates Kaufman Law PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dawn Pettigrew and G. Melton Mobley Lokey, Mobley and Doyle LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A13A0224

    The trial court properly granted summary judgment to the defendants on the plaintiff's negligence claim arising from her fall while walking across a carpet that was covering a hole in the sub-floori

  • Boothe v. State

    Publication Date: 2013-07-03
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Nahmias, David E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stanley W. Schoolcraft III Public Defender's Office, McDonough, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G. Lawson, District Attorney, Frances C. Kuo, Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney, Kathryn L. Powers, Jason B. Green, Assistant District Attorneys, Jonesboro, Elizabeth A. Baker, Assistant District Attorney, Decatur, Samuel S. Olens, Attorney General, Paula K. Smith, Senior Assistant Attorney General, and Andrew G. Sims, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S13A0042

    Any potential error in the admission of photocopies of police sketches, rather than the original sketches, was harmless in light of the other evidence of the defendant's