Legal Opinion
Chappuis v. Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, LLC.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided March 4, 2019No. S18G0756PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice.
This case comes to our Court at an early stage of a lawsuit stemming from the contentious relationship of two former business partners. The trial court struck 15 paragraphs of the plaintiff's complaint pursuant to OCGA § 9-11-12 (f), but the Court of Appeals reversed most of that order in Ortho Sport & Spine Physicians Savannah, LLC v. Chappuis, 344 Ga. App. 233, 808 S.E.2d 559 (2017). We granted a writ of certiorari to address how a trial court should evaluate a party's § 9-11-12 (f) motion to strike matter from a pleading on the ground that it is "scandalous." As…
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Wilkes & Mchugh, P.A. v. LTC Consulting, L.P.Supreme Court of Georgia · 2019
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