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  • Ellis v. Ingle

    Publication Date: 2010-11-19
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Edward Hine Jr., Rome, for appellant.
    for defendant: Michelle R. Jones Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Atlanta, for appellees. Other party representation: William H. Major III Hawkins & Parnell, Frank L. Wilson III Wilson, Brock & Irby LLC, Atlanta, and Brian C. Smith, Chattanooga, Tenn.
    Case Number: A10A2029

    Some evidence showed that the closing attorney failed to follow the closing instructions in completing the sale of the plaintiff's

  • LN West Paces Ferry Assocs. LLC v. McDonald

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Jeremy U. Littlefield and Richard R. Robbins Robbins Law LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Ron L. Quigley, Matthew R. Thiry and Mina A. Elmankabady Davis, Matthews & Quigley PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1138

    The trial court did not err in denying the defendant's motion to exclude the testimony of expert witnesses, which the plaintiff offered after the close of discovery, because the plaintiff previously

  • Sherman v. Fulton County

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John F. Woodham Woodham & Associates LLC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Cary Ichter, Patricia A. Roy, S. Renee Huskey Ichter Thomas LLC, Cheryl M. A. Ringer, Jerolyn W. Ferrari, Robert D. Ware, Atlanta, for appellee. Amicus Appellee: Han C. Choi, Sandra Z. Zayac and Lewis C. Horne Jr. Schiff Hardin LLP, Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, Denise E. Whiting-Pack, George S. Zier, Senior Assistant Attorneys General, and R. O. Lerer, Attorney General's Office, Atlanta. Amicus Appellant: Robert D. Feagin, Atlanta.
    Case Number: S10A0924

    The county failed to show that the plaintiff could not introduce evidence sufficient to grant his requested relief, namely a declaration that the county's method of valuing leasehold estates violate

  • O'Connor v. Bielski

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Hunstein, Carol W.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Larry B. Hill, LaFayette, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles Clements Jr. Clements & Clements and William P. Slack,, LaFayette, for appellee.
    Case Number: S10A0673

    Award of attorneys' fees reversed where plaintiff's equitable partition suit was directly adverse to defendant and did not seek to enhance or preserve their common pro

  • Regent v. State

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Barnes, Anne Elizabeth
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Steven Regent, Garden City, proceeded pro se. Paul L. Howard Jr., District Attorney, and Lenny I. Krick, Assistant District Attorney, Atlanta, for appellee.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A1603

    Separate facts supported the defendant's convictions for aggravated assault and aggravated battery on his non-negotiated guilty plea to

  • Mariner Health Care Management Co. v. Sovereign Healthcare LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas E. Reilly and Brian P. Watt Troutman Sanders LLP, Atlanta, for Mariner Health. Michael J. King Greenburg Traurig LLP, Atlanta, Nancy I. Jordan and Charles M. Dalziel Jr. Brock, Clay, Calhoun & Rogers PC, Marietta, for Sovereign Healthcare.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A1642, A10A1679

    The trial court erred in finding that the liquidated damages provision in the parties' administrative services contract was unenforceable under the circumst

  • Royal Crown Properties LLC v. Regions Bank

    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Leon A. Van, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Erich N. Durlacher, Kwende B. Jones and Harvey Daniels III Burr & Forman LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A10A1996

    The record belied the appellants' contention that the appellee's expert based his $1,460,000 value of certain real property subject to a nonjudicial foreclosure sale on specul

  • Trey Inman & Assoc. PC v. Bank of America NA

    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Lisa B. Perlstein, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: William A. DuPre IV Miller & Martin PLLC, Atlanta, for appellee. Other party representation: Gregory K. Hecht Hecht, Mack & Harris PC, Stockbridge, Kathryn E. Baird Quirk & Quirk LLC and John M. Welch, Atlanta.
    Case Number: A10A1844

    A closing firm was liable to a bank for conversion of surplus funds from the sale of secured property, because the bank's payoff instructions clearly stated that the bank was to receive any net sale

  • Hampton Island LLC v. HAOP LLC

    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Pope, Marion T.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Christopher W. Phillips Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah, for appellee. William G. Glass and Anthony R. Casella Weiner Shearouse Weitz, Savannah, for appellees.
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    Case Number: A10A1194

    The plaintiffs' promise to convey the pro in question to the defendant constituted adequate consideration for the defendant's agreement to buy the plaintiffs' pro

  • Baxter v. Fairfield Financial Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2010-11-05
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Cary Ichter and S. Renee Huskey Ichter Thomas LLC, Atlanta for Baxter. Robert J. Waddell Jr., Charles J. Myers McGuire Woods and Leigh M. Wilco Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco PC, Atlanta, for Fairfield Fin. Servs.
    for defendant:
    Case Number: A10A1107, A10A1108

    Res judicata did not bar an action by a bank against guarantors of loans made to a development company, since the prior action merely triggered the guarantors' obligation to indemnify the bank for t