“The necessary consequence of today’s decision is that Plaintiff—the largest operating subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., Georgia’s largest privately-held company by most metrics—is unable to avail itself of the Georgia State-wide Business Court in a dispute that falls squarely within its jurisdiction and is well-suited to be adjudicated in this Court,” Judge Walt Davis said.
November 20, 2020 at 01:49 PM
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It’s not every day that a judge writes into an opinion a plea for lawmakers to fix a problem for the court, but it just happened.
“It is, of course, not lost on this Court the unfortunate irony that flows from the foregoing conclusion,” Judge Walter Davis of the Georgia State-Wide Business Court said in an order granting a defense motion to transfer a case out of his venue.
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Walt Davis of Jones Day, Atlanta, was named judge for the new Business Court for the state of Georgia. (Photo: John Disney/ALM)
