• State v. Lamb

    Publication Date: 2007-09-14
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Kermit N. McManus, District Attorney, and Mark P. Higgins Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Dalton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Rodney Q. Quarles, Chatsworth, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A1263

    Defense counsel was deficient for failing to obtain the similar transaction witness's criminal re

  • Gilbert v. City of Jackson

    Publication Date: 2007-09-07
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Josephine B. Jones, Macon, for appellant.
    for defendant: Thomas F. Richardson Chambless, Higdon, Richardson, Katz & Griggs LLP, Macon, for appellees.

    Case Number: A07A1188

    The plaintiff failed to show that city waived its sovereign immunity by operation of O.C.G.A. § 36-33-1 by maintaining liability insurance policy when the repairs to drainage pipes, which allegedly

  • Thaxton v. Norfolk S. Corp.

    Publication Date: 2007-09-07
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thomas M. Barton and Aaron P. Tady Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP, placeCityAtlantafor appellant. John A. Moss Matthews & Steel, and Charles A. Mathis Jr. The Mathis Law Firm, placeCityAtlantafor appellees.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A07A1446

    Law firm lacked standing to appeal judgment allocating attorneys' fees to two individual attorneys, since it was not a party to the underlying FELA

  • Burnette v. Caplan

    Publication Date: 2007-08-24
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Harvey S. Wasserman, Carnesville, for appellant.
    for defendant: . Marc S. Kaufman, Lavonia, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A1518

    The de ts did not have a servient estate, since the owners of the original tract of land from which the plaintiff and the de ts bought their parcels no longer owned the land belonging to d

  • Auto-Owners Ins. Co. v. Reed

    Publication Date: 2007-08-03
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Michael C. Kendall Talley, French & Kendall PC, Douglasville, for appellant.
    for defendant: Charles D. Jones Beck, Owen & Murray, and William G. Johnston III Shepherd & Johnston, Griffin, for appellees.

    Case Number: A07A0338

    The underlying plaintiff's claim of carbon monoxide poisoning against her landlord was excluded from coverage under the ' "pollution exclusion" ' provision of her landlord's CGL p

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  • Lou Robustelli Marketing Servs. Inc. v. Robustelli

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen T. La Briola Fellows, Johnson & La Briola, Atlanta, for Lou Robustelli Marketing Servs. Inc. James C. Watkins and Tom Pye, Norcross, for James Robustelli and others.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A07A0813; A07A0868

    The plaintiff's claim for breach of fiduciary duty against the first defendant failed, since no evidence showed that the first defendant was the plaintiff's officer, director or agent, or that she h

  • Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee v. Center for a Sustainable Coast

    Publication Date: 2007-07-27
    Practice Area:
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    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, James D. Coots, John E. Hennelly, Assistant Attorneys General, Atlanta, and James A. Chamberlin Jr., Brunswick, for Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee. Christopher K. DeScherer S. Envtl. Law Ctr., Stephen E. O'Day Smith, Gambrell & Russell, Mary M. Asbill Turner Envtl. Law Clinic, Atlanta, and Charles C. Smith Jr. Smith & Floyd, St. Mary's, for Center for a Sustainable Coast. Patricia T. Barmeyer King & Spalding, for Point Peter LLP. Other party representation: R. Todd Silliman King & Spalding, Julie V. Mayfield The Georgia Conservancy, Atlanta, Dana F. Braun Karsman, Brooks & Callaway PC, Frank J. Perch III, Andrew H. Ernst Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn PC, Savannah.
    for defendant:

    Case Number: A07A0752; A07A0753; A07A0897; A07A0934

    The ALJ erred in requi he Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee Committee to consider or regulate any aspect of the developer's adjacent high land and upland residential development in consid

  • Franklin v. State

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Benjamin R. Makin Public Defender's Office, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Kenneth W. Mauldin, District Attorney, and C. Rebecca Smith District Attorney's Office, Athens, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A1540

    Although the arresting officer found the victim's wallet on the ground next to the defendant, the evidence showed that the very intoxicated victim was unaware that the defendant patted his pockets o

  • WorksiteRx LLC v. DrTango Inc.

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: John C. Spurlin Spurlin & Spurlin, Tifton, for appellant.
    for defendant: Hal J. Leitman Macey, Wilensky, Cohen, Witter & Kessler LLP, Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A1426

    The defendant's affidavit in support of its cross-motion for summary judgment was sufficient to create a jury issue as to whether the parties mutually rescinded their written agre

  • Health Management Assocs. Inc. v. Bazemore

    Publication Date: 2007-07-20
    Practice Area:
    Industry:
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Andrews, Gary Blaylock
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Stephen L. Stincer and Tracie G. Smith Brennan & Wasden LLP, Savannah, for appellant.
    for defendant: M. Francis Stubbs Stubbs & Assocs., Reidsville, for appellee.

    Case Number: A07A1503

    The trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss the plaintiff's claims to the extent that she alleged that the defendant was vicariously liable for the professional negligence of