Georgia Estoppel Law
Landcastler Acquisition Corp. v. Renasant Bank
Atlanta, Georgia civil litigation lawyer represented Plaintiff, which sued Defendant on a "D'Oench doctrine†theory.<br> <table><br> <h1><br> <center><br> <a font="red" href="https://www.morelaw.com/georgia/news/atlanta/" target="_new">MoreLaw Legal News For Atlanta</a><br> </font><br> </center><br> </h1><br> </table><br> </center><br> This case arises out of the insolvency of the Crescent B... More...
$0 (01-12-2023 - GA)Jason A. Miller v. Chase Home Finance, LLC
Jason A. Miller appeals from an order of the district court dismissing his complaint for failure to state a claim. After a thorough review of the record and briefs, we affirm.<br><br>I.<br><br>Miller owned a parcel of real property in Hiawassee, Georgia, which he obtained by securing a mortgage loan from the predecessor of the defendant, Chase Home Finance, LLC (Chase). In February 2009, Miller re... More...
$0 (04-19-2012 - GA)Covenant Christian Ministries, Inc. v. City of Marietta, Georgia
Covenant Christian Ministries, Inc. ("Covenantâ€) and its pastor, Frederick T. Anderson, brought an action against the City of Marietta, Georgia, challenging the validity of its zoning ordinance. As pertinent to this appeal, Covenant and Anderson each allege multiple claims under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPAâ€), 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc. The district cou... More...
$0 (09-07-2011 - GA)World Harvest Church, Inc. v. Guideone Mutual Insurance Company
Between 1995 and 1999, Charles Richard Homa and Michael E. Gause operated an automobile title lending business which actually constituted a huge Ponzi scheme. See SEC v. Homa, 514 F3d 661, 664 (I) (A) (7th Cir. 2008). During that time, Gause donated large sums of money to World Harvest Church (Church), including a $1,000,000 wire transfer from an offshore bank account. The Securities and Exchange ... More...
$0 (05-03-2010 - GA)Lamar Montgomery v. Barrow & Byrd Properties
Barrow & Byrd Properties, Inc. (B & B), purchased approximately 223 acres of land from the estate of Cauley Barrow for $247,800. Lamar and Robbie Ann Montgomery, as executors of the estate of Robert Barrow (Executors), filed an action to quiet title and for other relief, claiming that Robert Barrow, who was the son of Cauley Barrow, owned the property from 1975 until his death in 2000, pursuant to... More...
$0 (03-26-2010 - GA)World Harvest Church, Inc. v. Guideone Mutual Insurance Company
This is an insurance case raising some questions of Georgia law.<br><br>Without issuing a written reservation of rights, an insurer assumed the defense of a lawsuit for almost eleven months but stopped defending near the end of the discovery period because it decided that there was no coverage. At that point the policy holder hired its own attorneys to defend the lawsuit. About one month after the... More...
$0 (10-30-2009 - GA)Jeanette C. Nicholson, Ph.D. v. James C. Shafe, et al.
This appeal calls upon us to address the scope of the Rooker-Feldman1 doctrine, which provides that "lower federal courts are precluded from exercising appellate jurisdiction over final state-court judgments.†Lance v. Dennis, 546 U.S. 459, 463 (2006). The Supreme Court has only applied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine as a bar to jurisdiction on two occasions, the first instance being Rooker and... More...
$0 (02-18-2009 - GA)Angel Flight of Georgia, Inc. v. Angel Flight America, Inc.
Since the early 1980s, private pilot organizations have operated throughout the United States, arranging for volunteer pilots to transport needy patients and donated organs to hospitals around the country. Historically, many of these organizations have used the service mark "Angel Flight" to promote their services and solicit donations. <P> In 2000, a number of private pilot organizations ba... More...
$0 (04-11-2008 - GA)McRae v. SSI Development, LLC
<P> Margie McRae appeals pro se from the trial court's order adopting the special master's report and denying her petition to quiet title to property on St. Simon's Island. Finding no error, we affirm. <P>1. The record reveals that the trial court entered three different final orders denying McRae's claims in this quiet title action. The trial court's first order was filed December 19, 2006;... More...
$0 (01-08-2008 - GA)<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200314123.pdf" target="_new">Gerald W. Jones, et al. v. American General Life and Accident Insurance Company</a>
<P> In this ERISA case, Appellants Gerald W. Jones, John H. Askew, Jr., Lloyd E. Maddox, and Anna H. White, representing themselves and over 1,400 similarlysituated class members (collectively the "Appellants"), appeal the district court's orders granting summary judgment in favor of Defendant-Appellee American General Life and Accident Insurance Company ("American General") on their ERISA S... More...
$0 (05-24-2004 - GA)<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200311169.pdf" target="_new">Club Car, Inc. v. Club Car (Quebec) Import, Inc.</a>
<P> Club Car of Quebec (CCQ) and its president, Martin Murphy, appeal the judgment against them on several claims arising out of Club Car Inc.'s termination of CCQ as its distributor of golf carts. We affirm. <P>Background <P>Under a series of written distribution agreements, CCQ, a Quebec corporation, served as the Quebec distributor of golf carts manufactured by Club Car, a Georgia corpor... More...
$1557360 (03-17-2004 - GA)<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200214820.pdf" target="_new">Donna Barger v. City of Cartersville Georgia and Sam Grove</a>
<P>Donna Barger began working for the City of Cartersville, Georgia, in January 1978. She rose to the position of Personnel Director in 1997. In November 2000, Barger underwent back surgery to repair a ruptured disc. On January 8, 2000, shortly after Barger returned to work, City Manager Sam Grove demoted Barger from her $42,000.00 per year Personnel Director position to a $14.62 per hour cus... More...
$0 (10-29-2003 - GA)<p><a href=" http://www2.state.ga.us/Courts/Supreme/" target="_new">IN RE: T.M.G.</a>
<P>This Court granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals' ruling that appellants are collaterally estopped from seeking to adopt TMG, because appellants "acted and were treated as parties" in appellees' earlier adoption proceeding. This Court, however, has previously held that appellants were not parties to appellees' adoption proceeding. Moreover, the issue to be decided in appellants' cu... More...
$0 (09-30-2002 - GA)<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/may2002/01-15648.opn.html" target="_new">Craig McDonald v. Southern Farmer Bureau Life Insurance Company, et al.</a>
Plaintiff Craig McDonald appeals from the district court's order dismissing for failure to state a claim his lawsuit against Defendants Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, et al. ("SFBL") alleging, inter alia, a violation of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act ("FICA"), 26 U.S.C. § 3101, et seq. Because FICA is silent as to whether an employee can sue his employer for the proper paym... More...
$0 (05-13-2002 - GA)DPLM, Ltd. v. J.H. Harvey Company
Promissory Estoppel - Implied Covenant - Breach of Contract - Harvey's operates a number of grocery stores, and in 1989 entered into an amended lease with DPLM on its existing store in Americus. That store was located in the Bel-Air Plaza shopping center, which was owned and operated by DPLM. Beginning in 1991 or 1992, the par... More...
$0 (12-02-1999 - GA)Pacrim Associates et al. v. Turner Home Entertainment, Inc.
Breach of contract - Fraud - Pacrim Associates and one of its shareholders and employees, Pamela Kent, sued Turner Home Entertainment under various contract theories and for fraud. In its complaint, Pacrim alleges that it entered into an agreement with Turner which Pacrim was appointed as Turner's exclusive licensing and merchandising agent in Thailand for a one-year period. Plaintiff's allege t... More...
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