Amber Heard has filed an official notice to appeal the outcome of her defamation trial against ex-husband Johnny Depp.The Aquaman star’s legal team submitted the documents on to the Virginia Court of Appeals on Thursday (July 21), stating that the actress intends to appeal the verdict.“We believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the first amendment. We are therefore appealing the verdict,” a spokesperson for Heard said in a statement.“While we realise today’s filing will ignite the Twitter bonfires, there are steps we need to take to ensure both fairness and justice.”A spokesperson for Depp said in a statement: “The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented during the six-week trial and came to a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr Depp in multiple instances.
Johnny Depp Ordered To Pay The ACLU $38K For Amber Heard Evidence!
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Johnny Depp must be happy right now…
As you know, the Finding Neverland star has been seen as the winner of the defamation case with Amber Heard after the jury found that she defamed him in the 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post that chronicled her experience as a domestic abuse survivor. Subsequently, she was ordered to pay $15 million in damages before it was reduced to $10.35 million due to Virginia law. Meanwhile, Johnny was told to pay $2 million when he was found liable for claims his attorney made about Amber. However, that is not all he will have to pay!
Those who’ve followed his legal battle with Amber Heard know that the court case also focused on proving the actress lied about giving her promised donation of a $7 million divorce settlement to the American Civil Liberties Union and the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. But in order to do that, Johnny had to subpoena the records from the nonprofit (who helped Amber with The Washington Post op-ed that was at the center of the defamation trial) to prove that she never handed over the cash.
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When the ACLU initially refused to turn over the documents, the two got into a heated exchange, leading the Pirates of the Caribbean alum to sue them. And they soon made sure that crucial evidence wasn’t going to come cheap!
Following his legal win against Amber, the organization demanded that Johnny pay a whopping $86,000 for the “considerable” amount of time they spent preparing and submitting docs for the case after being subpoenaed. They claimed execs had to comb through over 7,500 documents, eventually submitting 2,000 documents to his legal team. And according to court docs, the ACLU
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Amber Heard has officially filed to appeal her defamation case against her former husband Johnny Depp, almost two months after a court ordered her to pay over $10 million (£8.3m) in damages to the star. The Aquaman star’s legal team filed a notice to appeal on Thursday at the Virginia Court of Appeals in Fairfax County as she appeals the verdict rendered by the court last month in the high profile defamation trial.
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Amber Heard has taken the necessary step to officially appeal the verdict in Johnny Depp's defamation case against her.According to new legal documents, obtained by ET, the actress' legal team filed the paperwork Thursday in Fairfax County, Virginia, alerting the court they will be filing an appeal soon in the case where jurors awarded the star $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The punitive damages were later reduced to $350,000 in accordance with the state's statutory cap.Heard was awarded $2 million by the jury in compensatory damages for her counterclaim but nothing in punitive damages.
Amber Heard officially files to appeal Johnny Depp case
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Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterAmber Heard filed a notice of appeal on Thursday of the $10 million defamation verdict that a Virginia jury awarded to her ex-husband, Johnny Depp.Heard’s lawyers had announced they would appeal immediately after the jury found on June 1 that she had defamed Depp by publishing an op-ed in the Washington Post in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The jury held that the statement was false and was made with “actual malice.”“We believe the court made errors that prevented a just and fair verdict consistent with the First Amendment,” Heard’s spokesperson said on Thursday. “We are therefore appealing the verdict.
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