A federal judge has sanctioned the city of Atlanta for failing to meet court deadlines in a discrimination case, warning city lawyers that any more failures will result in a default judgment against the city.
U.S. District Senior Judge Clarence Cooper on May 27 directed the city to pay legal fees incurred by plaintiff Sylvester Richards after his lawyer sought sanctions against the city and two city managers for repeatedly disregarding court orders and deadlines in the five-and-a-half-year-old case. The monetary sanctions, which were not specified in Cooper’s order, stem from a directive last October ordering the city to cooperate with Richards’ attorney, Tres Indermark of Decatur, in preparing and filing a consolidated pretrial order.
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