Lawyers battled on Monday over how much in attorney fees Waffle House Inc. chief executive officer Joe Rogers Jr. should be reimbursed because a judge found that the woman and the lawyer suing Rogers for sexual battery have harassed him and unnecessarily protracted the matter.
The hearing before Fulton County State Court Judge Susan B. Forsling stemmed from her ruling last week that attorney David M. Cohen and his client Mye Brooke Brindle should pay Rogers’ attorney fees for "sanctionable conduct." A key problem for the judge was that after she granted Rogers’ motion to seal the litigation papers from public view, Cohen appealed that order to the state Supreme Court by filing the papers in the open.
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