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  • 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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    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

  • Steele v. Georgia Dep't of Transp.

    Publication Date: 2005-02-11
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Dennis T. Cathey, David A. Sleppy Cathey & Strain, Cornelia, and Matthew T. Allen, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Kathleen M. Pacious, Deputy Attorney General, Loretta L. Pinkston and Robert C. Edwards, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1626

    The DOT is not exempt from liability for failing to conform a roadway's shoulder slope ste to generally accepted engineering and design standards after road-widening projects increased the st

  • Navajo Constr. Inc. v. Brigham

    Publication Date: 2005-01-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ravelle D. Smith Vaughn & Evans, Cartersville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Sidney P. Wright, Rome, for appellees.
    Case Number: A04A2272

    The trial court erred in granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment where the plaintiff presented a prima facie claim of tre

  • White v. Kaminsky

    Publication Date: 2005-01-07
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry A. Ballew, Cumming, for appellant.
    for defendant: Gregory J. Digel, Fred R. Slotkin Jr. Holland & Knight LLP and Louis R. Cohan Weinstock & Scavo PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A2111

    The trial court erred in failing to apply the rules of contract construction to resolve an ambiguity in certain real property covenants with regard to the design and construction of property improve

  • Copper Tire & Rubber Co. v. Merritt

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Philip W. Savrin and Sun S. Choy Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP, Atlanta, for Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. Kermit S. Dorough Jr. Divine & Dorough, Albany and Jesse G. Bowles Bowles & Bowles, Cuthbert, for Merritt.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A04A0811; A04A0812

    Workers' compensation provided the exclusive remedy for the plaintiff's injury due to his employer's negligence in failing to maintain a faulty for

  • Handschuh v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-12-30
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Joseph S. Key Sexton & Morris PC, Stockbridge, for appellant.
    for defendant: Steven L. Harris, Solicitor General, Fayetteville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0838

    The line of cases typified by Kahl v. State, 268 Ga. App. 879 2004, State v. Goolsby, 262 Ga. App. 867 2003, and State v. Lentsch, 252 Ga. App. 655 2001 are overruled to the extent they hold that p

  • Carver v. Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William B. Johnson, Jesup, for Carver and others. Raymond S. Gordon Jr. and W. Jefferson Hires Gordon & Hires, Jesup, for Daniels and others. Marvin W. McGahee, Savannah, for Empire Fire & Marine Ins. Co. Clyde M. Urquhart, Woodbine, for Canal Indem. Co. Other party representation: Jeffery N. Osteen Jones, Osteen, Jones & Arnold, Hinesville, William M. McHugh Jr. Durham, McHugh & Duncan PC, Brunswick, and James E. Stein, St. Mary's.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A04A1746; A04A1747; A04A1748

    Coverage for the plaintiffs' claims was limited by the insurance policy's exclusion for losses arising out of the use of an automobile by those persons who reside in the household of an employee, of