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Project History
| GDOT files a SLAPP suit March 29th, 2013 (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) |
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Lawsuit for a Safer Forest Hill Road |
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| http://www.macon.com/2013/03/29/2417381/political-notebook-legal-firepower.html Macon Telegraph
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Political Notebook: State likely to aim high caliber lawyers at activist in road fight Published: March 29, 2013 A judge advised Macon road activist Lindsay “Doc” Holliday to get a lawyer in his fight with the Georgia Department of Transportation, because the judge expected the state would bring some heavy firepower to bear. Holliday ultimately got a lawyer on the eve of the last hearing. Meanwhile, the state continues to bulk up. A notice filed in Bibb County Superior Court says Macon attorneys John A. Draughon and M. Devlin Cooper are going to help out in the case. But the state’s not pulling anyone out, noting that Department of Transportation attorneys still on the case include the state’s attorney general himself, Samuel S. Olens, as well as Deputy Attorney General W. Wright Banks Jr. and a pair of senior assistant attorney generals, Denise E. Whiting-Pack and Mary Jo Volkert. |
| GDOT is requesting that the Court
vacate the TRO or require that Holliday post a bond
(suggested to be in the amount of $8.4 million – although
no affidavit is provided). |
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Filed in Clerk's Office _ -- __ From: Mary Jo Volkert [mailto:MVolkert@LAW.GA.GOV] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 2:47 PM To: 'Diana Watkins'; 'eennis@co.bibb.ga.us' Cc: John Draughon; 'Devlin Cooper'; Waddell, Robert J. Jr. Subject: RE: Holliday v. Georgia Department of Transportation, Civil Action No. 12CV58472 Ms. Watkins: Please find the attached letter to Judge Ennis with enclosures. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Sincerely, Mary Jo Volkert Senior Assistant Attorney General 40 Capitol Square, SW Atlanta, GA 30334 404-656-3343 Direct: 404-651-5809 Fax: 404-657-3239 mjvolkert@law.ga.gov This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise by return e-mail and delete immediately without reading or forwarding to others. |
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| Attachments - LETTER TO J. ENNIS 3-29-13.PDF.pdf AG-#712483-v2-HOLLIDAY_-_PROPOSED_ORDER_VACATING_TRO.DOC GDOT LETTER TO HOLLIDAY 9-29-10.PDF.pdf says Plaintiff is responsible for $8.4 Million road delay. RJ Haynie contractor files a Notice of Potential Claim. 2012 REEVALUATION (Responses to Holliday issues).pdf ENVIR ASSESSMENT RE-EVALUATION.PDF Holliday certifications.pdf |
Discovery requests to
Plaintiff from GDOT.
From: Diane Peacock [mailto:DP@SELL-MELTON.com] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:59 PM To: Mary Jo Volkert; Waddell, Robert J. Jr.; Devlin Cooper Cc: John Draughon Subject: Holliday v. GDOT, Civil Action No. 12-CV-58472 Lady and Gentlemen: Attached hereto you will find your copy of Defendant’s Rule 5.2 Certification with regard to discovery, along with said discovery. Should you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact Mr. Draughon at 478-464-5323 or by e-mail. This e-mail correspondence was not necessarily read by Mr. Draughon prior to transmission to the recipient(s). Diane Peacock Legal Assistant to John A. Draughon, Sr. Sell & Melton, L.L.P. P.O. Box 229 Macon, GA 31202-0229 (478) 464-5334 c:\eudora\attach\24652434.L02.Full.pdf |
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Brutalization May I offer my “Amen” to David B. Conner’s “Need it or not” letter. What besides personal/political self-interest could possibly motivate any Maconite to keep frantically pushing such an ill-conceived campaign to plunder Forest Hill Road? Using that road more than daily for many years while the mall was still thriving, I felt no need to widen it. But what is more distressing, is why any of us would viciously attack good folks who have been advocating valiantly for the wellbeing of the Forest Hill neighborhood, for the health of the earth, and for intelligent planning. A multi-million-dollar lawsuit that looks like a transparent ploy to be punitive, bullying and intimidating? Please. Do we allow a family to be brutalized for earnest efforts on behalf of our town? -- Claudia Kirkwood Macon Read more here: http://www.macon.com/2013/04/10/2431636/this-is-viewpoints-for-wednesday.html |
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