Yang v. Washington

Chang Yang sued Dr. Carl Washington and the Emory Clinic, alleging medical malpractice after a laser procedure performed on her face left permanent scarring. Following a trial, a jury found in favor of the Defendants. Yang filed a motion for new trial and a motion for attorney fees, both of which the trial court denied. On appeal, Yang challenges the trial court’s denial of both motions.1 Finding no error, we affirm.

1. Prior to reaching the merits of the appeal, we find it necessary to address the litigants’ failure to follow this Court’s rules. The record in this cases consists of seventeen volumes, containing thousands of pages. Court of Appeals Rule 27 a 1 provides, in pertinent part, that “record and transcript citations must be to the volume or part of the record or transcript and the page numbers that appear on the appellate records or transcript as sent from the court below.”2 In this case, however, neither Yang nor the Defendants reference the volume of the record as forwarded to this Court, but merely reference the record or transcript, generally. Given the size of the record, such general citations are, at best, minimally helpful. This is particularly true where, as here, the record is not chronological.