Cancel v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[A]t a CGAS shareholders and directors meeting on April 29, 2003, the attendees discussed a corporate dissolution. Sewell represented that a dissolution would serve to remove any encumbrances that might stand in the way of the hospital’s restructuring and allow the hospital to negotiate contracts with the individuals of the group. At a May 5, 2003 CGAS shareholders and directors meeting, a proposal was unanimously passed that the CGAS contract with The Medical Center would terminate on August 31, 2003. 16”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 331 Ga. App. 687 - Alvin Sewell v. Angel Cancel

2. “to hold otherwise would permit a cross-appellant (the party often with no right to directly appeal) to challenge rulings entered during the 15 days after the filing of the appellant’s notice of appeal, whereas it is axiomatic that the appellant (the party with the right to a direct appeal) may not.... We glean no legislative intent for granting favor in that manner to cross-appellants over appellants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Sewell v. Cancel

3. “cannot guarantee that any current member of CGAS ... will be offered a contract of employment within the restructured Department of Anesthesiology,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cancel v. Med. Ctr. of Cent. Ga., Inc.