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  • Carlisle v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-06-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Brian Steel The Steel Law Firm PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Daniel J. Porter, District Attorney, and David K. Keeton, Assistant District Attorney, Lawrenceville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A1128

    No evidence showed that defendant knew that her co-defendant was prohibited from contacting the stalking victim as a condition of his

  • Chapman v. Clark

    Publication Date: 2005-04-22
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher J. McFadden, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Troy R. Millikan, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A05A0626

    The plaintiff was not entitled to ve damages for the conversion of certain construction equipment, because he was the assignee of the rights to the actual owner of the equipment and a right to

  • Howard v. State

    Publication Date: 2005-04-08
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Thompson, Hugh P.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James M. Allison Jr., Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: James D. McDade, District Attorney, Christopher R. Johnston, Assistant District Attorney, Douglasville, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Frank M. Gaither Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: S05A0268; S05A0269

    The seizure of affidavits from the defendants' jail cells did not violate their Sixth Amendment right to counsel where the defendants prepared the affidavits and disseminated them to o

  • Hughey v. Gwinnett County

    Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Fletcher, Norman S.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen E. O'Day, Andrew M. Thompson Smith, Gambrell & Russell and Justine I. Thompson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Isaac Byrd, Deputy Attorney General, John E. Hennelly, William R. Phillips, Assistant Attorneys General, Lee A. DeHihns III. Daniel N. Esrey and William B. Carver Alston & Bird, Atlanta, for appellees. Amicus appellant: Paul E. Andrew Andrew, Merritt, Reilly & Smith, Lawrenceville, Harry L. Cashin Jr., Mary M. Asbill, D. Lee Biola, Atlanta, Clyde Y. Morris Jr., Alpharetta, and Iryna A Kwasny, Oakland, Calif. Amicus appellee: Patricia L. Barmeyer and Lewis B. Jones King & Spaulding, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S04G0873

    Georgia's anti-degradation rules require a permittee to utilize the highest and best level of treatment practicable under existing techn

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

    Publication Date: 2004-11-05
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    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.
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    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

  • The Neiman-Marcus Grp. Inc. v. Dufour

    Publication Date: 2004-06-25
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Malcolm Smith and Kevin A. Doyle Lokey and Smith, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Hollis C. Cobb Schenck & Assocs., Robert B. Lipman Robert B. Lipman & Assocs. PC, and Clyde E. Rickard III, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0179

    A department store owner relinquished control of its property to an independent contractor, so the store was not liable for the contractor's inj

  • McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP v. Keller

    Publication Date: 2004-05-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Smith, George T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter C. Canfield, Thomas M. Clyde and Marcia K. Stadeker Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Neal H. Howard and William D. James Neal H. Howard & Assocs. PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A04A0624

    The plai could not sue his adversary's law firm for negligence where the law firm owed no legal duty to the plai

  • The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV v. State

    Publication Date: 2004-03-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Peter C. Canfield, Thomas M. Clyde and Christopher L. Meazell Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Mark A Mallon, Assistant District Attorney, for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0695

    A restrictive order requiring all members of the prosecution and defense to respond to media inquiry by saying either "no comment" or "whatever we have to say will be said in court" was overly

  • Bryant v. Hoffman La Roche Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Adams, A. Harris
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard L. Brittain, Wendell R. Bird and Jonathan T. McCants Bird & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Richard B. North Jr., Matthew B. Lerner Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, Atlanta, and Leslie J. Bobo Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, Jackson, Miss., for appellee.
    Case Number: A03A0661

    Once a prima facie case for design defect is established, a pharmaceutical manufacturer will be relieved from strict liability only when it demonstrates that 1 the product is properly manufactured a

  • Reynolds v. McKenzie-Perry Homes Inc.

    Publication Date: 2003-06-06
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Samuel S. Olens Ezor & Olens PC, and William H. Buckley, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Scott D. Huray and Brina N. Smith Webb, Carlock, Copeland, Semler & Stair, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Mary E. Wilson and Robert E. Mulholland Savell & Williams, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A03A1046

    A general contractor who added the plaintiff to its workers' compensation insurance as a condition of its contract with the plaintiff was deemed to be the plaintiff's statutory emp