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  • Amend v. 485 Properties

    Publication Date: 2006-03-24
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Bruce P. Brown and Thuy N. Vu McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jill Warner and Peter B. Glass Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05Q1462

    Real estate brokers must prove that they are the procuring cause of a sale in order to recover for the value of their services in quantum m

  • Ladzinske v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2006-01-27
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. M. Raffaur, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott W. Peters, Nathan M. Wheat, David H. Flint Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint LLP, Atlanta, Eugene C. Reed Jr., William J. Linkous III and Viviane H. Ernstes DeKalb County Law Dept., Decatur, for appellees.
    Case Number: S05A1866

    Plaintiff could not directly appeal the dismissal of his suit arising after the county department of public works declared a charter school to be exempt from local ordinances and granted all necessa

  • Rayburn v. Allen

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John W. Moulton Moulton & Tarrer LLC, Conyers, for appellant.
    for defendant: R. Phillip Shinall III Alexander, Royston, Hardman & Shinall, Covington, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A2094

    The decedent's will clearly provided that his wife and son would share the expenses of maintaining the couple's home until it was sold, as long as both the wife and son resided there; however, the w

  • Brewer v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-12-09
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hines, P. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Corbin, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, Dalton, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Julie A. Adams, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A1368

    The defendant's malice murder conviction was supported by the evidence, including forensic evidence that either of the two gunshot wounds to the victim's head, by itself, would have instantly incapa

  • Pope v. Board of Comm'rs of Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2005-11-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy J. Sweeney, James P. Robertson Jr., Melana Kopman and Gretchen M. Holt Owen, Gleaton, Egan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: K. Prabhaker Reddy Reddy & Silvis LLC, Richard R. Gignilliat Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, and James J. Park U. S. Court of Appeals, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A05A1237

    The appellants' own letter to the county board of commissioners provided some evidence supporting their removal from their positions on the county's board of tax asse

  • Dale v. Keith Built Homes Inc.

    Publication Date: 2005-09-09
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Manley F. Brown, John C. Clark, Philip M. Brown, Jarome E. Gautreaux O'Neal, Brown & Clark PC, Macon, Leighton B. Deming Jr., Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Kenneth Moorman and Nancy G. Cook Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial LLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Matthew L. Hilt Gray, Rust, St. Amand, Moffett & Brieske LLP, John L. Kimmey III Germano, Kimmey & Cheatwood PC, James A. Meaney III Allen, Kopet & Assocs., Atlanta, Cubbedge Snow III, Thomas P. Allen III Martin & Snow, Macon, Jeffrey L. Cox, Henry L. Young Jr., Dawsonville, and Charles R. Adams III Adams & Adams LLP, Fort Valley.
    Case Number: A05A1433

    The general contractor's alleged failure to enforce its no-drinking on the job policy did not increase the risk of harm to third pe

  • August 31, 2005 |

    Diesel Industry Braces For Air Pollution Suits

    Environmental Advocacy Group Gives Plaintiffs Fuel To Sue

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  • Goode v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2005-07-29
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clayton H. Farnham Drew, Eckl & Farnham, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Debra E. LeVorse and David C. Marshall Hawkins & Parnell, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0064

    A one-time repair to a sewer cave-in could not for the basis for the plaintiff's nuisance suit after a water main broke near his residence, washing away an excessive amount of dirt under the founda

  • Barton v. City of Rome

    Publication Date: 2005-03-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Morris Jr. Parker & Lundy, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Anderson Davis, Kristy L. Cordle Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Thomas H. Manning Smith, Shaw & Maddox LLP, Rome, and Robert T. Monroe Smith, Shaw & Maddox LLP, Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2349

    The city's knowledge of a defectively designed dumpster at the city's landfill was imputed on its motion for summary jud

  • Barton v. City of Rome

    Publication Date: 2005-02-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Charles E. Morris Jr. Parker & Lundy, Cedartown, for appellant.
    for defendant: . J. Anderson Davis, Kristy L. Cordle Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson & Davis LLP, Thomas H. Manning Smith, Shaw & Maddox LLP, Rome, and Robert T. Monroe Smith, Shaw & Maddox LLP, Cedartown, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2349

    The city's knowledge of a defectively designed dumpster at the city's landfill was imputed on its motion for summary jud