• Malak v. Unifund CCR, LLC

    Publication Date: 2017-11-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Creditors' and Debtors' Rights
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking
    Court: Court of Appeals
    Judge: Judge Branch
    Attorneys: For plaintiff: Mohamad Malak, Athens, for appellant.
    for defendant: Brannon Carson (Roosen, Varchetti & Olivier PLLC), Atlanta; David Fife (Attorney at Law), Atlanta; Mark Moore (Lazega & Johanson, LLC), Atlanta, for appellee.

    Case Number: A17A0748

    In entering judgment against debtor in a suit on a credit card account, the trial court relied on inadmissible evidence and the wrong legal standard; accordingly, the Court remanded the case for the trial court to issue a new order on the bench trial based on properly admitted evidence.