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Georgia Supreme Court intervenes in lawyers’ solicitation fight
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The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments over whether attorneys can revive racketeering claims against Cambre & Associates, accused of monitoring crash reports to solicit victims before rival lawyers can reach them. The Court of Appeals had dismissed the case, ruling the lawyers weren't the intended victims of any alleged privacy violations, only the crash victims were.
Justices pressed both sides on how directly the alleged data misuse must target the plaintiffs versus merely cause foreseeable financial harm. The Georgia Trial Lawyers Association filed a brief arguing predatory solicitation of injury victims is a serious and largely uninvestigated problem within the profession.
The justices gave no timeline for a ruling.
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Two sets of lawyers arguing over who has the right to chase an ambulance first is the kind of dispute that would be funny if it weren't about accident victims' personal data getting sold around like a mailing list. The bar's own rules already call this solicitation illegal, and the trial lawyers association admits enforcement mostly amounts to a shrug. Whichever way this ruling goes, the crash victim in the middle of it still gets the cold call.
