THE FORMER CONTROLLER of the Atlanta sports restaurant chain Jocks & Jills is now its largest shareholder following a $2.25 million verdict in her favor in a sex and race harassment suit against the chain’s founder and chairman.

Edward D. Buckley III of Buckley & Klein, who persuaded a federal jury last year to deliver a verdict in favor of Tracey L. Tomczyk, said that Fulton County sheriff’s deputies seized Jocks & Jills stock belonging to then-restaurant board chairman Joseph Rollins after Rollins appealed the verdict, refused to post an appeal bond and then took the chain into Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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