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  • Sullivan v. Sullivan

    Publication Date: 2009-10-16
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Carley, George H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Martin L. Fierman, Eatonton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Jeremy A. Moulton, Conyers, for appellee.
    Case Number: S09A1295

    The parties' marriage contract, entered into in consideration of marriage, was unenforceable under O.C.G.A. § 19-3-63, because it was not signed by two attesting witn

  • Department of Transp. v. Jordan

    Publication Date: 2009-10-02
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas C. Dempsey and Neil M. Monroe Weiner, Yancey, Dempsey & Diggs LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles N. Pursley Jr. and Christian F. Torgrimson Pursley Lowery Meeks LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1843

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence of value in light of a possible rezoning of the appellee's Sandy Springs property, which her family owned for more than 30

  • Department of Transp. v. Jordan

    Publication Date: 2009-09-11
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas C. Dempsey and Neil M. Monroe Weiner, Yancey, Dempsey & Diggs LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles N. Pursley Jr. and Christian F. Torgrimson Pursley Lowery Meeks LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A1843

    The trial court did not err in admitting evidence of value in light of a possible rezoning of the appellee's Sandy Springs property, which her family owned for more than 30

  • Order Homes LLC v. Iverson

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Clay S. O'Daniel Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele LLP, Marietta, and Ronald A. Williamson Shapiro, Fussell, Wedge & Martin LLP, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Kurt R. Hilbert The Hilbert Law Firm, Neil L. Wilcove Freeman, Mathis & Gray LLP, David F. Root Carlock, Copeland & Stair LLP, Brian W. Burkhalter, Stephen Michael Schatz Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Atlanta, Eric D. Cochling Hutto & Cochling, and C. David Joyner, Buford, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0931

    The parties agreed to submit all construction defect claims and ' "all other claims between the parties" ' arising out of the construction of the plaintiffs' new home to arbitr

  • Lavigne v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-09-04
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Miller, M. Yvette
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: James W. Bradley, Lakemont, for appellant.
    for defendant: Tracy G Lawson, District Attorney, and Anece Baxter, Assistant District Attorney, Jonesboro, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1554

    The defendant's convictions for theft by conversion and violating the Georgia Securities Act of 1973 did not merge as a matter of law or

  • Irvin Int'l Inc. v. Riverwood Int'l Corp.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-28
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Mikell, Charles B.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Warner R. Wilson Jr. Wilson & Epstein, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: George L. Murphy Jr. and Corin M. McCarthy Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0917

    No issues of fact remained in plaintiff's breach of contract or fraud claims seeking to recover commissions on sales of paperboard beverage cartons to bottling comp

  • DuPree v. South Atlantic Conference of Seventh Day Adventists Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Johnson, Edward H.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Richard S. Alembik, Decatur, for appellant.
    for defendant: Donna J. Salem Salem & Wong and Wendell K. Willard, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0722

    A factual questioned remained as to whether the defendant waived its right to object to plaintiff's failure to make a second earnest money deposit 10 days before the scheduled cl

  • Gallagher v. The Buckhead Community Bank

    Publication Date: 2009-08-07
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Doyle, John J.
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: William L. Bost Jr. Greenfield, Bost & Kliros PC, Atlanta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Mark L. Golder and Lynn Carroll Siegel & Golder PC, Atlanta, for appellee.
    Case Number: A09A1430

    A fi. fa. recorded in the seller's married was outside the chain of title to property purchased later in the seller's maiden

  • Old Republic Nat'l Title Ins. Co. v. Attorney Title Servs. Inc.

    Publication Date: 2009-06-26
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Blackburn, G. Alan
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Tania T. Trumble Dickenson Gilroy LLC, Alpharetta, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas R. Mock Jr. Hawkins & Parnell LLP, Atlanta, for appellees.
    Case Number: A09A0999

    Insurer's contract with attorney and his corporation to provide title examination ser was one for professional, legal ser

  • Johnson v. State

    Publication Date: 2009-06-12
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    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Sears, Leah Ward
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Sean A. Black Black Law Offices LLC, Toccoa, for appellant.
    for defendant: Robert W. Lavender, District Attorney, Elberton, and Adam C. Schroeder, Assistant District Attorney, Carnesville, for appellee.
    Case Number: S08G1975

    An officer properly seized the marijuana in the defendant's jacket pocket, since the jacket was hanging just outside the bathroom door of a motel room from which the defendant was lawfully being evi