Legal Opinion
COEN v. APTEAN, INC.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 10, 2020No. S18G1638PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
307 Ga. 826
FINAL COPY S18G1638. COEN v. APTEAN, INC. et al. NAHMIAS, Presiding Justice. The parties in this case have spent years engaged in a series of lawsuits. The case now before this Court concerns a claim of abusive litigation that Timothy Coen filed based on a previous contract lawsuit against his former employer that was resolved in his favor. In his abusive litigation case, Coen seeks punitive damages. In Coen v. Aptean, Inc.,
346 Ga. App. 815
( 816 SE2d 64) (2018), the Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s ruling that punitive damages are not available for a statutory abusive…
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