$10.6 Million Jury Award Against Georgia City Vacated In Shooting Death Lawsuit

(July 10, 2018, 7:07 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A Georgia appeals court on June 26 ruled that a trial court erred in denying a city’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict following a $10.6 million jury verdict against the city in litigation over a shooting death outside a business operating illegally as a nightclub, finding that the plaintiffs were unable to show the criminal activity at the location constituted a nuisance maintained by the city or that the city’s sovereign immunity was waived (Albany v. Sheryl Stanford, et al., No. A18A0699, Ga. App., 3rd Div., 2018 Ga. App. LEXIS 419)....

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