Publication Date: 2009-01-30
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Court: Court of Appeals
Judge: Doyle, John J.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Thurbert E. Baker, Attorney General, and Jennifer L. Dalton, Assistant Attorney General, placeCityAtlanta, for appellant.
for defendant: William L. Ballard Ballard, Still & Ayres, J. Robert Persons Smith, Moore & Leatherwood LLP, Atlanta, and James S. V. Weston Hull, Towill, Norman, Barrett & Salley PC, Augusta, for appellee.
Case Number: A09A0411
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