Georgia’s Supreme Court is pondering questions posed by a federal appeals court that could determine whether a $5 million verdict against the directors of the defunct Buckhead Community Bank is ultimately overturned.

Attorneys for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and former members of the bank’s loan committee faced off Tuesday in oral arguments before the high court over whether the $5 million verdict, handed down by a federal jury in 2016, should have been apportioned among each of the defendants.