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Amber Heard dumps lawyer and hires legal team who successfully defended the New York Times against Sarah Palin's defamation suit
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Posted on 08/15/2022 3:04:24 PM PDT by algore

Amber Heard has dumped the attorney who defended her in her unsuccessful defamation trial with Johnny Depp as she now tries to appeal the verdict.

Elaine Charlson Bredehoft, who represented the Aquaman actress in the six-week defamation trial, has parted ways with Heard. Attorney's David L. Axelrod and Jay Ward Brown, who represented The New York Times earlier this year in a defamation lawsuit against 2008 vice president nominee Sarah Palin, will take over as the appeal proceeds.

The pair work for Ballard Spahr and have covered various cases, including companies and individuals in high-stakes civil litigation, speakers in First Amendment cases, journalists, and news organizations.

Announcing the news, Heard's spokesperson said in a statement: 'When it comes protecting the fundamental right of Freedom of Speech, we look at the jury's decision - to paraphrase a famous quote - not "as the beginning of the end, but merely the end of the beginning."'

'A different court warrants different representation, particularly as so much new evidence is now coming to light.'

Heard, 36, was ordered to pay her ex-husband more than $10 million in damages at the end of the explosive trial in June, when a jury ruled she had defamed Depp in a newspaper opinion piece published in 2018.

Following the verdict, Bredhoft said in an interview with the Today Show that the actress was unable to pay the millions in damages she owes Depp. More than a month later, Heard's legal team filed a notice to appeal the verdict at the Virginia Court of Appeals in Fairfax County

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: amber; depp
In other news.

The CDC and NIH have just warned about a new and so far incureable disease they have named Amber Alert Herpes.

1 posted on 08/15/2022 3:04:24 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

Maybe Elon Musk can pay the $10 million...


2 posted on 08/15/2022 3:06:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: algore

I thought she was supposed to be broke 😏


3 posted on 08/15/2022 3:09:58 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: algore
Poor Johnny. Life was easier when he was a kabob.
4 posted on 08/15/2022 3:13:25 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: algore

I’m guessing that no lawyer has ever been happier to be fired.


5 posted on 08/15/2022 3:15:57 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: NWFree

Let’s see. She’s 36 and a real knockout. He’s 50 and aware she never wanted to be around when he’s really old and needs someone to wipe his privates. She’s gettin’ out now when it’s her turn to bring in the young guys. Being younger she’ll want a whole lotta money. Unfortunately she went for broke.


6 posted on 08/15/2022 3:16:50 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Let’s see. She’s 36 and a real knockout. He’s 50 and aware she never wanted to be around when he’s really old and needs someone to wipe his privates. She’s gettin’ out now when it’s her turn to bring in the young guys.

She's a lesbo.

7 posted on 08/15/2022 3:20:55 PM PDT by KevinB (''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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To: algore
Showbiz depravity....very rare indeed!
8 posted on 08/15/2022 4:09:15 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

She’s legit crazy, is broke, about out of eggs, and took a dump on their bed.
She’s all you buddy.


9 posted on 08/15/2022 4:20:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

She’s what happens when crazy comes out on the porch with a cocktail.


10 posted on 08/15/2022 4:34:07 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

LOL.
When I was in my 20’s, I liked crazy because they’re “fun”.
I do not like crazy anymore...


11 posted on 08/15/2022 4:39:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: algore

This story, like Amber, is nonsense. Trial lawyers rarely represent their client during the appeal. Appeals require a different set of skills and most trial lawyers don’t have those skills. Maybe Elaine wanted to be paid before she continued to lie for Amber.


12 posted on 08/15/2022 4:49:05 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: algore

Continuing to duck responsibility for lying.

Shes the poster gal for men to not get involved with modern women today.

I doubt if the roles were switched, andJohnny Depp claimed he couldn’t pay her, she wouldn’t just drop it. She’d be on tv demanding he sell everything he has to pay her, amd telling him to start making movies.

Well honey, start selling stuff. Get a job and start pzying what you owe. Exactly what you’d do to him.

Women don’t care if men are broke. Thats why family court is debtors prison for so many men. No one cares if men can’t pay. When its a woman though, oh, thats different.


13 posted on 08/15/2022 5:38:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: algore

LOL


14 posted on 08/15/2022 7:40:33 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: algore

Do these people ever go away?


15 posted on 08/15/2022 7:43:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Amen!


16 posted on 08/16/2022 4:37:04 PM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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