Megan Thee Stallion pushed for courtroom sanctions after Tory Lanez ignored a decide’s order to elucidate his disruptive deposition habits in a defamation case.
Megan Thee Stallion is urging a Florida federal decide to penalize Tory Lanez after he failed to elucidate his erratic conduct throughout a court-ordered deposition in her ongoing defamation lawsuit.
Megan’s attorneys have requested the decide 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 workforce described as “unhealthy religion” conduct.
Lanez is presently incarcerated in California, the place he’s serving a 10-year sentence for the 2020 capturing of Megan Thee Stallion. He was formally served with the order however by no means responded by the April 30 deadline.
Megan’s attorneys 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 courtroom 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 mentioned, “Your hair is distracting me. There’s a motive 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 mistaken 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 sizzling canine; meat may very well be a steak.”
The deposition was lower quick after about an hour as a result of his refusal to cooperate.
Simply weeks after the failed deposition, Tory Lanez was stabbed 14 occasions 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 courtroom has but to schedule a listening to on the contempt movement.
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