A Gwinnett County case sidelined mid-trial by the coronavirus will not be back before jurors when the courthouse reopens because a confidential settlement resolved the claims of a trucker paralyzed when his rig rolled over in 2015. 

State Court Judge Emily Brantley initially refused to stay the case or declare a mistrial after Chief Justice Harold Melton proclaimed a statewide judicial emergency on March 14, a Saturday. That following Monday, the plaintiff’s lawyers concluded their case in chief.

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