New court docket submitting: Depp rejects Amber Heard’s ‘frivolous’ try and toss verdict

Johnny Depp’s lawyers are urging a Virginia choose to maintain intact the decision of his defamation case towards ex-wife Amber Heard.

In a doc filed in court docket on Monday, Depp’s authorized workforce argued that Heard has not recognized respectable grounds for setting apart the jury’s determination that discovered Heard defamed him in a 2018 op-ed.

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“Mr. Depp respectfully submits that the Courtroom ought to deny Ms. Heard’s Submit-Trial Motions, which verge into the frivolous,” the court docket submitting mentioned.

In June, a Fairfax County jury awarded Depp $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. As a result of the trial befell in Virginia, nevertheless, the punitive damages Heard should pay have been dropped to a most of $350,000, decreasing Depp's whole to $10,350,000.

Heard’s legal professionals filed motions earlier this month accusing one juror of "potential improper jury service.”

The jury summons was meant for a 77-year-old man, however his 52-year-old son, who goes by the identical title and lives on the similar handle, responded, in response to Depp’s legal professionals.

“Whereas Ms. Heard slings an distinctive quantity of mud on the wall within the hope that one thing may stick, the jury’s verdict on damages was completely affordable,” Depp’s authorized workforce argued.

It's not clear if Choose Penney Azcarate plans to carry a listening to for arguments on the motions to put aside the decision.

The court docket submitting from Depp’s legal professionals could be learn right here.