The lawsuit alleges a violation of First Amendment and equal-protection rights and of a federal law known as Title IX, which bars discrimination based on sex in education programs.
hairs between what the jury found he did affirmatively, that he sexually assaulted her and penetrated her essentially with his fingers, not his genitals, and her continuing to assert after the verdict that he had raped her. that s the very fine needle that his lawyers are asserting is the basis for this counterclaim of defamation. i don t see it having any merit. i don t see the judge is going to have much patience for it at all. but this may be an attempt to muddy the issues, perhaps delay the trial, appeal to a political base, and perhaps just sort of confuse the issues whether and if these new allegations actually go to trial. i mean, is it also possible to have a negotiation attempt, basically countersue and then work out something between the attorneys to make both lawsuits go away? very often a counterclaim can provide leverage for settlement discussions. in this particular case, it s pretty hard to imagine that there s really going to be much room for a negotiated settlement
assaulted her in that bergdorf goodman dressing room, there is very little league way for him to argue that she said something false about that attack. so, what the counterclaim asserts is that it s really trying to split hairs between what the jury found he did, affirmatively, that he actually sexually assaulted her and penetrated her essentially with his fingers, but not his genitals, and her saying, continuing to assert on cnn after the verdict that he had raped her. that is the very fine needle that his lawyers are asserting as the basis for this counterclaim of defamation. i don t see it having any merit, i don t see the judge is going to have much patience for it at all, but this may be an attempt to sort of muddy the issues. perhaps delay the trial, appeal to a political base, and perhaps sort of confuse the issues when and if these new allegations actually go to trial. is it also possible and negotiation attempt? basically countersue and then work out something between the at
million dollars to settle th case, to stop the case the settlement discussions began when the judge recess fo lunch today, telling everyon to be back in the courtroom at 1:30 pm. when 1:30 pm arrived, no one came back to the courtroom because the lawyers had passed the word to the judge that the were working on a settlement and that can happen at any point in a civil trial, so the judge certainly wasn t surprised by that. and it is standard to simply suspend while lawyers ar working on a settlement. the settlement rupert murdoc pain for today could have been purchased at that price before dominion ever put rupert murdoch under oath in th deposition highly incriminated himself as a functioning coconspirator in the defamation - [interpreter if rupert murdoch had been smart about this case and if h