A woman who twice negotiated a revolving door during a shopping trip to Lenox Square mall can’t sue for damages after she walked face-first into an adjoining glass door on her third pass through.

Fannie Gervin’s negligence suit against the mall’s owners ran into Georgia’s “prior traversal doctrine,” which essentially says that if a person has already navigated a purported hazard, they can’t come back and say they didn’t know about it.

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