(Credit: rommma/Shutterstock.com) Hays, Potter & Martin Taking Case Over $297K Fine to Ga. Supreme Court
In an emailed statement, Emory Potter, a Hays Potter partner, said, "We are petitioning the Georgia Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari primarily focused on a single issue: Whether the trial court properly imposed strict liability on [partner James] Martin and myself for a nearly $300,000 fee sanction, based only on the appearance of our names in the law firm's signature block."
May 27, 2022 at 09:27 AM
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A Georgia law firm, plus its lawyers and client, which were sanctioned and fined nearly $300,000 by a judge after trying to domesticate a $1 million judgment it already received in California, plan to appeal that decision to the Georgia Supreme Court after the Georgia Court of Appeals dismissed its applications for discretionary review.
In a March 22 order, Fulton County Superior Court Senior Judge Alfred Dempsey Jr. demanded that the Peachtree Corners firm of Hays, Potter & Martin pay $296,820.86 within 10 days to Arcturus International Inc., a Roswell-based land development company, and Delta Alpha Xray Inc., a now-defunct, North Carolina-based real estate business that was formed in 2011.
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