Columbia Residential, which manages the Columbia Tower at MLK Village on behalf of Ebenezer Baptist Church, voluntarily dismissed its eviction lawsuit against Phillip White. It is the first time the management company has reversed course on an eviction suit since the Free Beacon exposed Warnock’s connection to the evictions in early October. Warnock maintains that there have been no evictions from his church’s apartment building.

White told the Free Beacon on Nov. 17 that he feared the threat of being cast out onto the streets of Atlanta during the peak of winter. Six other residents of the church’s apartment building still face the threat of eviction as of Monday morning, according to Fulton County Magistrate Court records.

Columbia Residential dismissed its case against White on Wednesday without prejudice, indicating the property manager reserves the right to try the case again in the future. White, an African-American Marine veteran who served two tours in Vietnam, was served the dispossessory notice in September for $192 in unpaid rent. Columbia dismissed the case just two days after the Free Beacon reported that the Marine veteran had made a $542 rent payment on Nov. 2.

[Wanna bet that they try again after the runoff? — Ed]