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CHANDLER TELECOM, LLC v. BURDETTE

S16G0595.

797 S.E.2d 93 (2017)

CHANDLER TELECOM, LLC et al. v. BURDETTE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: February 27, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Garrett Daugherty , Hamilton, Westby, Antonowich & Anderson, 600 W. Peachtree Street, N.W., 17th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30308, for Appellant.

Robert D. Ingram , Leslie Susan Neubauer , Moore, Ingram, Johnson & Steele, LLP, 326 Roswell Street, Marietta, Georgia 30060, for Amicus Appellant.

Daniel Bruce Greenfield , Jack Freddie Witcher , Law Firm of Jack F. Witcher, P.O. Drawer 1330, Bremen, Georgia 30110, for Appellee.

Rebecca Ellen Liner , Law Office of Thomas M. Finn, P.O. Box 1483, Dalton, Georgia 30722, Pamela B. Waldorf , 2700 Braselton Highway, Suite 10-2, Dacula, Georgia 30019, Todd K. Maziar , Morgan & Morgan, P.A., 191 Peachtree Street N.E., Suite 4200, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, for Amicus Appellee.

Douglas Jeffrey Witten , State Board of Workers Compensation, 270 Peachtree Street, N.W., Suite 400, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3875, for Other Party.

This case presents the question of whether an employee may — in deliberate disobedience of his employer's explicit prohibition — act in a knowingly dangerous fashion with disregard for the probable consequences of that act, and still recover workers' compensation when injured...

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