It was a bad week for ...

Rick Kuhlman. The Atlanta doctor paid $2.94 million in restitution, spent hundreds of hours warning medical students about the perils of health care fraud and set up free chiropractic clinics at metro homeless shelters. But the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that won’t keep him out of prison.

Aaron’s Inc. Customers of the rent-to-own company filed classaction lawsuits against franchisees of the Atlanta-based company in Georgia and California last week as well as an individual complaint in Fulton County against the company and one of its franchisees in the state of Washington.

Park Atlanta. The city is investigating a so-called “secret shopper” program where nearly 100 parking tickets issued by Park Atlanta to officials at the agency and high-ranking members of the Atlanta Department of Public Works were summarily dismissed.