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  • Vara v. Essex Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2004-09-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Walter D. Adams, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan B. Davis Alston & Bird LLP, Atlanta, and Gregory T. Carter Whelchel, Brown, Readdick & Bumgartner, Brunswick, for appellee. Other party representation: John R. Ferrelle, Brunswick.
    Case Number: A04A1900

    The insureds' third-party complaint against their insurer was the proper legal procedure for determining whether the insurer is or may be liable to them under an indemnity insurance agreement in th

  • Vaillant v. City of Atlanta

    Publication Date: 2004-05-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tracey A. Moran, East Point, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Marcus Howard Bird & Mabrey PC, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: William D. Temple Temple, Strickland & Counts, Decatur, and Bradley K. Donnell McAfee & Taft PC, Oklahoma City, Okla.
    Case Number: A04A0600

    Plaintiff's only written notice of her injury claim against the city-an "Air Talk" form, which she mailed to an airport's customer service manager-did not substantially comply with statutory anti-li

  • Sumter Reg'l Hosp. V. Healthworks Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-12-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael A. Fennessy Fennessy & Nettum, Americus, and Angela T. Burnette Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Howard S. McKelvey Jr. and J. Michael Greene, Americus, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1535

    Plaintiff's claim for tortuous interference with business relations was based solely on the non-probative hearsay statements of the defendant doctors that the defendant hospital exerted economic pre

  • Schoenbaum Ltd. Co. LLC v. Lenox Pines LLC

    Publication Date: 2003-07-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Phipps, Herbert E.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: F. Carlton King Jr., Thomas A. Croft King & Croft, Peter M. Degnan and David M. Meezan Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hylton B. Dupree Jr. Dupree, Johnson, Poole & King, William W. Dreyfoos, Marietta, and Mark A. Johnson, Charleston, S.C., for appellees.
    Case Number: A03A0814, A03A0815

    Plaintiffs lacked standing to bring their RICO claim with regard to defendants' alleged predicate acts of filing a false transfer tax declaration and making false representations to lenders, since t

  • April 11, 2003 | New York Law Journal

    Munich is getting Frankfurt's overflow of foreign firms

    Twice a year, Steven Miller journeys from Cincinnati to Europe. As Procter & Gamble's intellectual property general counsel, he tours the continent to survey his company's pat

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  • Curles v. State

    Publication Date: 2003-02-07
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: George P. Donaldson III and Misty D. Garrett Donaldson, Bell & Pickett PC, Albany, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth B. Hodges III, District Attorney, Gregory W. Edwards, Assistant District Attorney, Albany, Thurbert E. Baker Jr., Attorney General, and Adam M. Hames, Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S02A1847

    The prosecutor did not violate O.C.G.A. § 17-8-76 during closing argument by improperly referring to the trial court's ability to mitigate the defendant's sentence since the prosecutor did not speci

  • Lifestyle Family LP v. Lawyers Title Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2002-08-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William H. Hughes Jr. Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard L. Robbins, Julianne N. Belaga, Deborah M. Danzig Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, and Kevin H. Hudson Rowe, Foltz & Martin PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A02A0668

    Plaintiff's alleged brokerage agreement with defendant was unenforceable because the parties did not reach a meeting of the minds on an essential term—plaintiff's commi

  • BP Exploration & Oil Inc. v. Jones

    Publication Date: 2001-12-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gerald L. Mize Jr., George N. Mori, Douglas G. Scribner and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for BP Exploration & Oil. Preyesh K. Maniklal, Hardy Gregory Jr., Gary C. Christy Gregory, Christy & Maniklal, Cordele, and Christopher N. Smith, Macon, for Jones. Other party representation: William D. Harrison Mozley, Finlayson & Loggins, Atlanta, and Luanne Clark Moore, Clarke, Duvall & Rogers PC, Albany.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A01A1207; A01A1208

    A n l oil company was not vicariously liable for the plaintiff's injuries at an independently owned gas st

  • Shortnacy v. North Atlanta Internal Med. PC

    Publication Date: 2001-11-30
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clinton W. Sitton and Robert H. Benfield Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Jonathan C. Peters, Vicki M. Miller and Michael T. Carithers Love & Willingham LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A01A0953

    The trial court did not abuse its discretion in opening defendants' default where defendants reasonably believed that their malpractice insurer was defending plaintiffs'

  • Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass

    Publication Date: 2001-04-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jay D. Bennett, Candace N. Smith and Paul J. Kaplan Alston & Bird, Emmet J. Bondurant and Michael B. Terry Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Benjamin F. Easterlin IV, Griffin B. Bell, Michael C. Russ and John P Brumbaugh King & Spalding, for appellee. Other party representation: Frank M. Lowrey IV Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, Atlanta, Evans J. Plowden Jr. and Dawn G. Benson Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless, Albany.
    Case Number: A00A2362

    Evidence that a disputed payment was conditional on its acceptance as payment in full required the trial court to comply with a written request to issue part B of the pattern charge on accord and sa