{"id":1261663,"date":"2022-12-05T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/amber-heard-files-appeal-against-10m-defamation-verdict\/"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:34:00","slug":"amber-heard-files-appeal-against-10m-defamation-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/05\/amber-heard-files-appeal-against-10m-defamation-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard files appeal against $10m defamation verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amber Heard\u2019s team has filed an appeal for the reversal of jury\u2019s $10 million verdict against her, or an entirely new trial. She was asked to pay the amount to ex-husband Johnny Depp following a defamation trial held earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Less than a month after\u00a0Johnny Depp\u00a0appealed against Amber Heard being awarded $2 million in their high-profile defamation case, Amber\u2019s lawyers have now reportedly filed a new 68-page appeal against him, claiming that the verdict will have \u2018chilling effect\u2019 on women who are trying to speak up against abuse by powerful men.<\/p>\n

Amber had filed her appeal last month in a Virginia court in the US, and argued that the exclusion of some of her therapy notes, in which she reported being abused by Johnny, resulted in an unfair trial, as per a new report.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trial court erroneously refused to dismiss this action on the ground of forum non conveniens, based on its mistaken conclusion that Depp\u2019s claims arose in Virginia because the Washington Post\u2019s servers are located here,\u201d responded Amber\u2019s new lawyers Jay Ward Brown and David L Axelrod in the November 23 filed document, reported Deadline.<\/p>\n

Amber Heard\u2019s team made objections revolving around Judge Penney Azcarate\u2019s decision to not consider certain parts of \u2018highly probative\u2019 evidence, which included detailed notes from therapists that document the allegations of abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis case also should never have gone to trial because another court had already concluded that Depp abused Heard on multiple occasions,\u201d the 68-page document stated. \u201cThe trial court also erred in overruling Amber Heard\u2019s demurrer, in which she argued that the challenged statements are non-actionable expressions of opinion and are not reasonably capable of conveying the alleged defamatory implication,\u201d appealed the court document that now seeks to have more than $10 million verdict against her reversed or tossed out for demanding a new trial.<\/p>\n

Johnny had sued his ex-wife Amber in March 2019 for $50 million on account of her op-ed in The Washington Post in 2018, where the she had written about being a \u2018public figure representing domestic abuse\u2019. In his follow-up to the filings, Johnny had said that it was him, who was abused in the couple\u2019s relationship. The seven-week defamation trial that followed, concluded in favour of Johnny, who was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The punitive damages were further reduced to $350,000, still the highest in the State. Amber, on the other hand, was also awarded $2 million in damages.<\/p>\n

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Amber Heard\u2019s team has filed an appeal for the reversal of jury\u2019s $10 million verdict against her, or an entirely new trial. She was asked to pay the amount to ex-husband Johnny Depp following a defamation trial held earlier this year. Less than a month after\u00a0Johnny Depp\u00a0appealed against Amber Heard being awarded $2 million in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1164748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7395,13116,1101,1003,7384,8248,1589],"class_list":["post-1261663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-10m","tag-amber","tag-appeal","tag-defamation","tag-files","tag-heard","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}