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  • June 17, 2009 | The American Lawyer

    Davis Wright Faces $400 Million Suit From Sunwest Work

    The r r for Sunwest Management, which developed a now-ailing empire of senior living facilities, is seeking more than $400 million in damages in a suit against Davis Wright & Tremaine. The

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  • 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

  • Morton v. Glynn County Bd. of Tax Assessors

    Publication Date: 2008-12-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
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    Case Number: A08A1499; A08A1500; A08A1501

    The county board of tax assessors did not improperly include an intangible benefit in assessing the appellants' Sea Island properties' fair market value, since the board based its appraisals

  • Daimler Chrysler Motors Co. v. Clemente

    Publication Date: 2008-10-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Bernes, Debra
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    Case Number: A08A0870; A08A0871; A08A0872

    Agreement between automobile manufacturer and an authorized dealer stated that neither was the other's

  • Washington v. McKibbon Hotel Group Inc.

    Publication Date: 2008-07-25
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0584

    The appellant's inchoate or defeasible title to property he acquired in a tax sale did not ripen by prescription into a fee simple title, despite his occasional cleanup and mowing of the propert

  • Hampton Island Founders v. Liberty Cap.

    Publication Date: 2008-03-21
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
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    Case Number: S07A1567

    The trial court abused its discretion in issuing an injunction that failed to maintain the parties' statu

  • Melican v. Parker

    Publication Date: 2008-02-22
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
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    Case Number: S08A0006

    Genuine factual issues remained as to the testator's lack of testamentary capacity and the issue of undue influence when the testator executed codicils to his

  • Slone v. Myers

    Publication Date: 2007-10-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Debra Slone and Sonja Ebron, St. Petersburg, Fla., proceeded pro se. Ned Blumenthal, Laura S. Morris Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, Martin C. Jones, Allen W. Bodiford, Stockbridge, and William S. Dominy, Decatur, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A1089; A07A1406; A07A2274

    The trial court erred in awarding attorneys' fees under O.C.G.A. § 9-15-14 b in the absence of evidentiary he

  • Hendry v. Wells

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Vincent T. Gresham, Atlanta, and Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for Hendry and others. Thomas T. Tate Andersen, Tate, Mahaffey & McGarity PC, Lawrenceville, James K. Quillian, Merle R. Arnold III and William M. Droze Troutman Sanders for Wells and others.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A07A0059; A07A0060

    A limited partner may bring a claim against a partne where the primary injury alleged is to the individual plaintiffs, rather than the partne

  • Cochran Mill Assocs. v. Stephens

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gus H. Small Jr., Kevin T. O'Sullivan Cohen, Pollock, Merlin, Axelrod & Small PC, and Kelly S. Scarbrough Lord, Bissell & Brook, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: David W. Davenport and Keith A. Pittman Lamar, Archer & Cofrin LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A07A0061

    The plaintiff's partners were sophisticated business persons, who were clearly put on notice of their former managing partner's alleged mismanagement of a general real estate partnership formed to p