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  • DeVente v. Flora

    Publication Date: 2009-09-18
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, Sara L.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frederick D. Burkey, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1166

    Under O.C.G.A. § 19-7-1 c 1 & 2, the minor decedent's posthumously born child had the exclusive right to pursue a wrongful death claim for her father's hom

  • McKissick v. S. O . A. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Waymon S. Harrell, Perry, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen N. Hollomon, Warner Robins, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1240

    Genuine issues of material fact remained as to probable cause and malice in the plaintiff's suit alleging malicious prosecution and malicious arrest, arising after he was arrested for allegedly orde

  • Order Homes LLC v. Iverson

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clay S. O'Daniel Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, and Ronald A. Williamson Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kurt R. Hilbert The Hilbert Law Firm, Neil L. Wilcove Freeman, Mathis & Gray LLP, David F. Root Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Brian W. Burkhalter, Stephen Michael Schatz Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, Eric D. Cochling Hutto & Cochling, and C. David Joyner, Buford, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0931

    The parties agreed to submit all construction defect claims and ' "all other claims between the parties" ' arising out of the construction of the plaintiffs' new home to arbitr

  • Encompass Inc. Co. of Amer. v. Friedman

    Publication Date: 2009-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Carrie O. Lowe and Melissa C. Patton Webb, Zschunke, Miller & Dikeman LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeffrey S. Vaughan Royal & Vaughn, and Eugene C. Brooks IV, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A0144

    The plaintiff failed to file her suit for breach of contract, bad faith and bad faith attorneys' fees, arising after water damage and mold infested air ducts and walls of her home as the result of m

  • Corey v. Clear Channel Outdoor Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mairen C. Kelly, Matthew R. Simpson and Griffin B. Bell Jr. Fisher & Phillips, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . John W. Harbin, W. Ray Persons King & Spalding,Damon J. Whitaker, John T. Marshall, Eric P. Schroeder Powell Goldstein LLP and William V. Custer IV Bryan Cave LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Michael J. Bowers and J. Matthew Maguire Jr. Balch & Bingham, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A09A0304; A09A0005; A09A0306

    The trial court properly dismissed the defendant's counterclaim, since the non-competition clause in the parties' purchase agreement did not create an implied duty on the buyer's part to refrain fro

  • Jordan Jones and Goulding Inc. v. Newell Recycling of Atlanta Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph C. Staak and Robert O. Fleming Jr. Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: H. Fielder Martin and Stephen G. Lowe Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge, Smotherman & Martin, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1397

    The applicable 4-year statute of limitation period for professional malpractice claims barred the plaintiff's breach of contract suit for defects in an automobile shredding facility, which the defen

  • DuPree v. South Atlantic Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard S. Alembik, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donna J. Salem Salem & Wong and Wendell K. Willard, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0722

    A factual questioned remained as to whether the defendant waived its right to object to plaintiff's failure to make a second earnest money deposit 10 days before the scheduled cl

  • Etowah Environmental Group v. Advanced Disposal Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-04-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: David J. Forestner and H. Wayne Phears Phears & Moldovan, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Michael J. Bowers, T. Joshua Archer, Scott E. Hitch and Malissa A. Kaufold-Wiggins Balch & Bingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A1660

    The appellants' tort claims arising out of the valuation of certain shares in an LLC, which the parties formed to operate solid waste disposal facilities, after it merged into appellees' holding com

  • Nash v. Compass Bank

    Publication Date: 2009-04-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard J. Storrs, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Sara L. Doyle and Allen A. Hendrick Holland & Knight LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A08A2374

    The appellee showed that the partially completed office park at issue sold for its true value of $2.6 during a foreclosure sale, after the appellant defaulted on a $3.5M

  • Jarrell v. JDC & Assocs.

    Publication Date: 2009-03-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jennifer R. Chapin, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Adam H. Long, Veronica H. Cope Allen, Kopet & Assocs. PLLC, and LaShawn W. Terry Hollowell, Foster & Gepp, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A08A1684

    The defendants did not breach the duty they owed to the plaintiff as a licensee on their premises, since no evidence showed that either defendant wilfully or wantonly injured the plaintiff or that t