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Six years after Greenstone Properties and MetLife bought Lakeside Office Park, City Council approved rezoning of the property for a mixed-use development, in a split vote decided by Mayor Eva Galambos – and a lawsuit is settled.  Still, perhaps no one is completely happy, as Councilman Gabriel Sterling said, before […]

A jury has found that Fulton County owes more than $327,000 in unpaid rent to the former landlord of the Fulton County Public Defender office at the corner of Trinity and Pryor. Now the county is fighting off a move to collect nearly $76,000 in attorney fees that the landlord, […]

Liquor magnate and two-time Democratic congressional candidate Roger Kahn has sued his former attorney and accountant for $7 million, claiming they are responsible for a 2008 federal court verdict that cost him more than $6 million.

Thanks to a Fulton County Superior Court judge’s decision, a developer will get to build a contested commercial project in East Roswell. But the leader of a large homeowners association that opposed the project is unhappy the Roswell City Council is not battling for them in court.

A developer filed a lawsuit Oct. 13 against Roswell saying the city council’s decision to enforce the current zoning on a 9.7-acre tract on Holcomb Bridge Road had rendered it “economically unviable.”

It took a dispossessory action and threats of garnishment against the county, but the former landlord for the Fulton County Public Defender’s office finally collected more than $200,000 in back taxes, utility payments, insurance and attorney fees.

A proposal to streamline Georgia’s muddled case law on noncompete agreements and to let judges alter disputed employment contracts that contain such agreements has received initial approval from a legislative committee.