The Georgia Court of Appeals released a new opinion partially reversing a prior decision to affirm a trial court’s ruling to dismiss three Athens churches, Green Acres, Beech Haven and First Baptist, from lawsuits brought by six plaintiffs alleging sexual abuse.
The reconsideration, published on June 29, came after the state Supreme Court issued a grant, vacate, remand order to the Court of Appeals to view the case in light of its recently issued decision in Doe v. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, another case argued by plaintiffs’ lead trial counsel Darren Penn of the Penn Law Group and lead appellate counsel Mike Terry of Bondurant Mixson & Elmore.
