Megan Thee Stallion pushed for court docket sanctions after Tory Lanez ignored a choose’s order to clarify his disruptive deposition habits in a defamation case.
Megan Thee Stallion is urging a Florida federal choose to penalize Tory Lanez after he failed to clarify his erratic conduct throughout a court-ordered deposition in her ongoing defamation lawsuit.
Megan’s attorneys have requested the choose to impose sanctions on Lanez for ignoring an April 17 order that required him to justify why he shouldn’t be held in contempt. The order adopted a deposition on April 9 that rapidly unraveled into what Megan’s authorized group described as “unhealthy religion” conduct.
Lanez is presently incarcerated in California, the place he’s serving a 10-year sentence for the 2020 taking pictures of Megan Thee Stallion. He was formally served with the order however by no means responded by the April 30 deadline.
Megan’s legal professionals famous that no listening to has been scheduled but and have now filed a proper discover to maneuver the method ahead. They’re asking the court docket to power Tory Lanez to cowl all authorized charges associated to the deposition and to nominate a particular grasp—at Lanez’s expense—to supervise any future testimony.
If that’s not granted, they’ve requested a listening to as quickly as attainable.
The deposition, carried out by way of Zoom from jail, was a part of Megan’s $10 million defamation case in opposition to YouTuber Milagro Gramz.
The lawsuit accuses Gramz of spreading false claims about Megan’s psychological well being, honesty beneath oath and alleged substance abuse, allegedly in coordination with Lanez and his father.
At one level, he stated, “Your hair is distracting me. There’s a purpose for what I’m asking. Your hair is distracting me.” He additionally added, “She ought to have waited to attend for that hair dye. It’s the unsuitable blonde.”
He challenged Henderson’s authority to query him and made sarcastic remarks about primary authorized phrases. When requested to outline “meet,” Lanez launched right into a tangent: “Meat may very well be a scorching canine; meat may very well be a steak.”
The deposition was lower brief after about an hour attributable to his refusal to cooperate.
Simply weeks after the failed deposition, Tory Lanez was stabbed 14 instances contained in the California Correctional Establishment in Tehachapi. The Might 12 assault left him with collapsed lungs and a number of accidents to his again, torso, head and face. He has since recovered sufficient to breathe with out help.
The court docket has but to schedule a listening to on the contempt movement.
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