City of Atlanta v. Spearman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “We are unaware of any cases in which the employer’s defense prevailed and the employee was awarded attorney fees for an unreasonable defense”
• “Where the parking lot is neither owned, controlled, nor maintained by the employer, the lot is not part of the employer’s premises and the rationale which allows recovery of workers’ compensation benefits does not apply.”
• “As a matter of law, we find that the City’s defense that the injury did not arise out of Spearman’s employment was not unreasonable and that the award of attorney fees regarding this defense was improper.”
• lot “managed, operated, and controlled” by nonemployer; employer allocated spaces

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).