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  • June 30, 2005 |

    Congress Re-Examines Federal Trademark Dilution Act

    Bill Would Protect Companies' Descriptive Trademarks

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  • Goldsby v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: M. Eric Eberhardt Eberhardt & Hale LLP, and William C. Bushnell, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and Brian V. Patterson, Assistant District Attorney, Athens, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0143

    Defendants' convictions for methamphetamine manufacturing and methamphetamine trafficking merged for sentencing purposes, since both arose from a single quantity of methamphetamine found in a cooler

  • King v. Irvin

    Publication Date: 2005-05-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Ruffin, John H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael B. King, Jonesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas D. Harper Harper, Waldon & Craig, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0073

    The plaintiff's injury suit arising out of automobile collision was dismissed for want of prosecution after the plaintiff failed to submit any proof that his military duties prevented him from atten

  • At Sys. Southeast Inc. v. Carnes

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. McCarter Goldner, Sommers, Scrudder & Bass LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Allen L. Broughton Broughton & Fernandez, Roswell, and Peter A. Law, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1879

    $1.25 million award to plaintiff for injuries she sustained when vehicle she was riding in was hit by an armored truck operated by the defendant's employee was supported by evidence of her considera

  • Wimberly v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-02-18
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Benham, Robert
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Randall M. Clark and Bart G. Altman, Brunswick, for appellant.
    for defendant: Stephen D. Kelley, District Attorney, Charles K. Higgins, Leslie K. DeVooght, Assistant District Attorneys, Brunswick, and Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S04A1870

    Defendant failed to show how the 38-month delay between his indictment on capital murder charges and his trial was presumptively prejud

  • Benton v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jonathan R. Melnick, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Tom Morgan III, District Attorney, Robert M. Coker and Daniel M. Hirsch, Assistant District Attorneys, Decatur, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A1300

    Generally, a jury's recommendation of leniency is mere surplusage, which does not affect the validity of a ve

  • Feazell v. Gregg

    Publication Date: 2004-10-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert Altman, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: W. Seaborn Jones and Steven Salcedo Owen, Gleaton, Eagan, Jones & Sweeney LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1446

    The trial court erred as a matter of law in setting aside the default judgment for the plaintiff where the defendant failed to meet any of the statutory grounds under O.C.G.A. § 9-

  • Starr v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-09-24
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard E. Allen, Augusta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Craig, District Attorney, and Charles R. Sheppard, Assistant District Attorney, Augusta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A1454

    The defendant's child molestation conviction was reversed because the trial court improperly expressed an opinion on the evidence in its jury instruc

  • Rice v. Lost Mountain Homeowners Assoc. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2004-09-03
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: J. Andrew Rice and Kathryn W. Rice, Powder Springs, proceeded pro se. Richard W. Calhoun Brock, Clay, Calhoun, Wilson & Rogers, Marietta, for appellees.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A04A1244

    The plaintiffs' 11-foot-high white vinyl fence violated the restrictive covenants applicable to their

  • Frazier v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: W. Keith Barber Allen & Barber PC, Statesboro, for appellant.
    for defendant: Richard A. Mallard, District Attorney, Statesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0172

    The trial court did not harmfully err in charging the jury on both DUI-less safe driver and per se DUI for having a blood-alcohol concentration over .1 grams percent, even though the defendant was o