A Republican Party lawyer's complaint against an attorney, who sued the GOP for libel and flipped a long-held state House Republican seat, has been dismissed by the state elections board.

The administrative complaint—one of three filed by GOP deputy counsel Vincent Russo against Atlanta attorney Josh McLaurin last year—served as the basis for incendiary political mailers circulated by the Republican Party in the run-up to the 2018 election.

McLaurin, a Sandy Springs Democrat, is a litigation associate with Atlanta's Krevolin & Horst.