When a lawsuit is retried in Gwinnett County State Court starting Aug. 1 after its first trial was declared a mistrial by a judge in 2018, the plaintiffs’ attorneys want to make sure Randy Evans, their opposing counsel and former U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg, is never referred to as “ambassador” in court.

James E. Butler, Jr. founding partner of Butler Wooten & Peak. Courtesy photo James E. Butler Jr., partner with Butler Prather. (Courtesy photo)

That was the message the lawyers sent Wednesday when they filed a motion in limine “to prohibit identification of or reference to an attorney’s former government title or position.”