Legal Opinion
Freeman v. Wheeler
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided January 31, 2006No. A05A1632PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.
Lawrence Conrad Freeman appeals from the trial court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing his abusive litigation action brought pursuant to OCGA § 51-7-80 et seq. Because we find the trial court correctly concluded that the action was barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel, we affirm.
Freeman brought the abusive litigation action in Cobb County State Court against the defendants he sued in a prior civil action in Fulton County Superior Court, the attorneys who represented those defendants, and the law firm which employed the attorneys. He sought to recover…
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