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  • Department of Transp. v. Arnold

    Publication Date: 2000-04-14
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Eldridge, Frank M.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, R.O. Lerer, Assistant Attorney General, Donna W. Howell James S.S. Howell Law Offices, Robert W. Diggs Weiner, Yancey & Dempsey and Mark Weinstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Luke F. Gore Gore, Lee & Curry, Austell, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0646

    Owner of condemned property could recover for his post-taking business losses because he showed that he had to relocate his chiropractic clinic after the DOT condemned most of his parkin

  • Lovell v. Anderson

    Publication Date: 2000-04-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: McMurray, William Leroy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Robert M. Dyer Dyer & McElyea, Canton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Susan S. Stuart and Robert D. Ingram Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, Marietta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A00A0721

    Landowner's written grant of permission for his nephew to go on any of his land was at most a revocable license that expired when the landowner

  • Scott v. Mamari Corp.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michelle L. Davis Newman, Sapp & Davis, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. Douglas Stewart Stewart, Melvin & Frost, Gainesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1757

    The plaintiff was only an incidental beneficiary of the loan agreements between the defendant's predecessor-in-interest and the resort where the plaintiff performed reconstruction

  • Multifamily Mortgage Trust 1996-1 v. ARA Assocs.-Shangri-La Ltd.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-31
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Frank W. Deborde, Robert C. Threlkeld and Beth E. Rogers Morris, Manning & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . James K. Quillian, William M. Droze and Thomas E. Reilly Troutman Sanders, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A99A2228

    The trial court had to look at the intent of the parties to determine whether the plaintiff could deduct the costs of extensive repairs to its apartment complex as operating expenses under an agreem

  • Gwinnett-Club Assocs. v. Southern Elec. Supply Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Ira L. Rachelson Rachelson & White, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Dock H. Davis, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A1641

    Even though debtor's bankruptcy stayed cement of creditor's action to recover on a materialman's lien, creditor still had to file a notice of commencement of that action to preserve its right t

  • Nairon v. Land

    Publication Date: 2000-03-17
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Gary C. Harris, Clayton, for appellant.
    for defendant: James G. Killough Zimmerman & Assocs., Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: Shelby A. Outlaw The Outlaw Firm, Decatur.
    Case Number: A99A2042

    The plaintiff could not sue the defendants for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress based on their filing an abusive lawsuit against him, since the abusive litigation statute p

  • Mitchell v. State

    Publication Date: 2000-03-10
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael S. Bennett Sr. and Jim T. Bennett The Bennett Law Firm, Valdosta, for appellant.
    for defendant: J. David Miller, District Attorney, and Bradfield M. Shealy, Assistant District Attorney, Valdosta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A99A2445

    The defendant presented no evidence to support his theory that the arresting officers edited their reports to conceal flaws in the prosecution's

  • In re Thigpen

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Per Curiam
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    Case Number: S00Y0185, S00Y0240

    Attorney suspended indefinitely for abandoning clients' cases and failing to return their retainers and files as a result of his severe depre

  • Burt v. Skrzyniarz

    Publication Date: 2000-02-11
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kenneth P. Johnson and David H. Johnson McCorkle, Pedigo & Johnson LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: John M. Cullum, Savannah, for appellee.
    Case Number: S99A1824

    The trial court properly charged the jury that plaintiff had to present clear and convincing evidence to rebut the presumption that the parties had equal shares in their property as tenants in c

  • Lee v. American Cent. Ins. Co.

    Publication Date: 2000-02-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
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    Case Number: A99A1378, A99A1379

    Vacating its previous decision, the Court of Appeals now holds that insurer cannot be liable for failing to add property owner to tenant's policy since owner received a copy of the policy and the mi