Rogers v. Dupree

I concur in Division 1. Because the majority advances Rogers’s extraordinary and unwarranted success in inverting and distorting this litigation and because the majority’s grave errors have broad implications for the practice of law and contravene public policy declared by the General Assembly in OCGA § 9-11-11.1 (a), the introductory paragraph of the statute prohibiting strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), I respectfully but emphatically dissent in the remaining divisions.

This is — or ought to be — a straightforward sexual harassment case. It is undisputed that for a…