After Six Years of Pretrial Appeals, Waffle House Sex Tape Case Can Move to Discovery
Pretrial appeals are now exhausted and discovery can begin in a civil racketeering case against three attorneys who used a secret sex tape recorded by their client to try to secure millions of dollars from Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers Jr.
January 17, 2020 at 02:47 PM
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After six years of appellate wrangling, a civil racketeering lawsuit against three attorneys over a secret sex tape of Waffle House chairman Joe Rogers Jr. is finally cleared to begin pretrial discovery over whether their actions on behalf of Rogers' former housekeeper constituted attempted extortion.
The Supreme Court of Georgia resolved the last of a lengthy string of pretrial appeals without comment, clearing the way for Rogers and his counsel to begin securing evidence to bolster claims that lawyers for his former housekeeper advised her in making a surreptitious recording of a sexual encounter with the executive.
In 2014, Rogers sued attorney David Cohen, the founder and principal partner of the Complex Law Group in Atlanta; John Butters, a former Cobb County assistant district attorney now in private practice; and Hylton Dupree, a partner in the Marietta firm Dupree & Kimbrough, after the trio of lawyers accused him of sexually harassing their client, Mye Brindle.
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