The Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday issued an omnibus ruling greenlighting civil racketeering litigation against three lawyers who sought millions of dollars from the chairman of the Waffle House restaurant chain to settle harassment claims made by his housekeeper in a long-running legal brawl over a secret sex tape.

In a 7-2 ruling written by Judge Amanda Mercier, the state appellate court addressed four pending appeals stemming from Waffle House Chairman Joe Rogers’ racketeering and invasion of privacy lawsuit against Atlanta attorney David Cohen of the Complex Law Group, Marietta attorney and former Cobb County prosecutor John Butters, and Hylton Dupree Jr. of Marietta’s Dupree & Kimbrough. All three attorneys represented Rogers’ former longtime housekeeper Mye Brindle.

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