The Georgia Republican Party has settled a libel lawsuit over mailers the party financed targeting an attorney running as a Democrat for a suburban Atlanta state House seat.

In a settlement agreement signed Thursday, the state GOP agreed to stop referring to Josh McLaurin—an associate at Krevolin & Horst and a candidate for state House District 51—as being under criminal investigation. The GOP paid for three separate mailers using the language, two of which came after a cease-and-desist letter was sent by McLaurin’s attorney, Stacey Evans, warning the language was libelous.