After hearing arguments as to whether plaintiffs lawyers improperly used racial considerations in keeping a white juror off of a panel that ultimately awarded more than $1.5 million in damages in a nursing home fatality case, the justices of the Georgia Supreme Court decided they didn’t want to rule on it after all and dismissed the appeal.

The justices heard Zoom arguments in October; on Monday, they decided the appeal had been “improvidently granted” and dismissed it. One jurist, Justice Michael Boggs, dissented from the decision; Justice Carla Wong McMillian was disqualified.

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