The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a nearly $43 million verdict against a southwest Atlanta CVS Pharmacy over a parking lot shooting during a robbery that left a man with permanent serious injuries.

Defense lawyers had raised several objections to the verdict, arguing among other things that the victim was just as much to blame as CVS and that the jury rendered a “void verdict” by failing to lay any of the blame on the unknown shooter or another man who had been on the scene.