CHRISTOPHER GIOVINAZZO

 

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Representative Cases:

Represented David McDavid in obtaining a $281 million jury verdict against Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) for breaching an agreement to sell McDavid the Atlanta Hawks, the Atlanta Thrashers and the operating rights to Philips Arena. The jury verdict is one of the largest compensatory damage awards in Georgia history.

Position:

Associate

Education & Background:

Yale University (B.A., Cum Laude, 1997)
Harvard Law School (J.D. Cum Laude, 2004)
Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Environmental Law Review

Law Clerk to Honorable Chief Judge Orinda Evans, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2004-2005.  

Law Clerk to Honorable Frank Mays Hull, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2005-2006.  

Publications:

Author, California’s Global Warming Bill: Will Fuel Economy Preemption Curb California’s Air Pollution Leadership? 30 Ecol. Law Quarterly 893 (2003)
Author, Defending Overstatement:The Symbolic Clean Air Act and Carbon Dioxide, 30 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 99 (2006).

Admitted:

State Bar of Georgia
U.S. Courts of Appeals, 11th Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals