Legal Opinion

COHEN Et Al. v. ROGERS

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided July 14, 2016No. A16A0259PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BARNES, Presiding Judge.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to consider whether the Cobb County trial court erred in granting the plaintiff’s motion to disqualify two of the defendant’s lawyers in this civil suit. The trial court based its disqualification order on several grounds, and the lawyers argue on appeal that the trial court abused its discretion. For the reasons that follow, we find no abuse of discretion in the trial court’s disqualification order and affirm.

Until the trial court disqualified them in June 2015, attorneys David Cohen and John Butters had represented Mye Brooke…

2Cases cited28 opinions

  1. Western & Atlantic Railroad v. HendersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
  2. Mobley v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1995
  3. Blumenfeld v. BorensteinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1981
  4. Martin v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 2015
  5. Castell v. KempSupreme Court of Georgia · 1985

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3Cited by9 opinions

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  4. Rogers v. DupreeCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 2017
  5. Southern States Chemical, Inc. v. Tampa Tank & Welding, Inc.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 2021

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