He launched a defamation case against opposing counsel, but the matter got tossed twice amid appellate consideration of the state’s anti-SLAPP, or anti-Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation.
Now an Atlanta attorney is on the hook to pay $21,450 in attorney fees after the Georgia Court of Appeals also nixed his challenge of the subsequent fee award.

Chauncey Napoleon Barnwell (left) of Brown Barnwell and Jay F. Eidex of Groth Makarenko Kaiser & Eidex. (Courtesy photos)

