Johnny Depp APPEALS Trial Verdict: I am Not Paying Amber Heard a Dime!

Of us, we remorse to tell you that the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial is again within the information.

Sure, the case was determined manner again in June, however as it’s possible you’ll recall, the jury’s resolution wasn’t as conclusive as some observers had hoped.

By any measure Depp “gained” the trial, being awarded $10.35 million in damages based mostly on the jury’s conclusion that Heard had defamed him and carried out irreparable injury to his profession.

Why, then, is Johnny interesting the decision?

Properly, the jury additionally determined that Heard ought to be awarded $2 million, having been defamed by Depp’s lawyer, Adam Waldman.

Despite the fact that Depp got here out on high by greater than $8 million, in an act whose pettiness is matched solely by its hubris, he’s now dragging Heard again to court docket on the idea that he shouldn’t be pressured to pay her a dime.

The jury’s resolution was based mostly on feedback that Waldman made in an interview, wherein he described the battle that allegedly ended Depp and Heard’s marriage.

Heard legal professionals claimed Depp was “vicariously liable” for these statements.

“So Amber and her associates spilled a bit of wine and roughed the place up, bought their tales straight underneath the path of a lawyer and publicist, after which positioned a second name to 911,” Waldman mentioned on the time.

In accordance with court docket paperwork filed this week, Depp’s attorneys imagine that the court docket “ought to reverse the judgment on Ms. Heard’s counterclaim,” despite the fact that they’re in favor of each different side of the decision.

“The jury’s emphatic favorable verdict on all three defamatory statements alleged in his grievance absolutely vindicated Mr. Depp and restored his status,” reads the submitting.

“Nevertheless, the trial court docket was confronted with quite a few novel and sophisticated authorized and factual points, and though the trial court docket determined the overwhelming majority of these points sensibly and appropriately, a couple of rulings have been misguided.”

Depp’s attorneys additionally argue that Waldman was retained as an impartial contractor, and thus had no proper to talk on Depp’s behalf.

They additional allege that there’s no proof of “precise malice” in his assertion, which is likely one of the circumstances for libel.

“No proof of Mr. Waldman’s precise malice was introduced at trial, so the judgment towards Mr. Depp can’t be sustained,” Depp’s legal professionals write.

They go on to argue that Waldman’s phrases have been a “non-actionable assertion of opinion inadequate to help a declare of defamation.”

That’s loads of legalese to say “Depp needs to go nuclear, and he gained’t sleep so long as Heard has a dime to her identify.”

In fact, Heard can be interesting the decision, so even when Depp’s enchantment is rejected, there stays a really robust probability that these two will wind up again in court docket.

Already, Heard’s first request for a new trial was thrown out by the choose.

The actress alleged that one of many jurors within the unique trial had served on a fraudulent foundation, having answered a summons that was supposed for another person.

The choose wasn’t shopping for it, and Amber’s attorneys went again to the drafting board.

So yeah — you might need thought you’d heard sufficient about one of many messiest marriages in Hollywood historical past over the summer time.

But it surely appears virtually sure {that a} sequel to the epic battle between Depp and Heard is coming quickly to a courtroom close to you.