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SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA Case No. S10Y1025

Atlanta, July 27, 2010

The Honorable Supreme Court met pursuant to adjournment.
The following order was passed:

IN THE MATTER OF MORRIS P. FAIR, JR. On July 8, 2010, Morris P. Fair, Jr., filed a motion for reconsideration in

this case, claiming that he has meritorious defenses to the disciplinary charges against him and that his failure to timely respond to the State Bar's Notice of Discipline was due to debilitating physical, mental, and emotional problems
from which he suffered. Having considered the motion, the Court hereby grants the motion for reconsideration; temporarily vacates its June 28, 2010 opinion disbarring Fair; remands this matter to the Investigative Panel; and orders that a Special Master be appointed to hear evidence and make findings on whether

Fair's physical, mental, and emotional problems prevented him from filing a
timely response to the Notice of Discipline, and to hear evidence and make findings on the merits of Fair's defenses to the disciplinary charges against him. See In the Matter of Larry E. Blount. 264 Ga. 539 (449 SE2d 300) (1994). Fair

shall be temporarily suspended from the practice of law until further order of
this Court. Id.
All the Justices concur.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA

Clerk's Office, Atlanta I certify that the above is a true extract from the
Minutes of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Witness my signature and the seal of said court hereto affixed the day and year last above written.

.Chief Deputy Clerk



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