A lawyer facing nearly $200,000 in attorney fees as a sanction for his role in a short-lived lawsuit centering on a secret video recording of former Waffle House CEO Joe Rogers engaged in a sexual encounter is trying to convince the Georgia Court of Appeals to either slash the award or throw it out entirely.
It was the second time Complex Law Group principal David Cohen was before the appellate court challenging sanctions in the case. A Fulton County judge levied the sanctions to punish Cohen for filing the sexual harassment lawsuit in Fulton County on behalf of Rogers’s former housekeeper, Mye Brindle, a few days after Rogers sued her in Cobb County over what his attorneys have deemed a 2012 “sextortion” attempt.
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