Johnny Depp’s defamation trial against Amber Heard, his former wife, starts today. Here’s why the case is being heard in Fairfax County.
Heard argued that Virginia should dismiss Depp’s case based on the outcome of thecase, but Azcarate was unpersuaded: Heard was not a party to the UK case, the judge wrote, and her statements were not the basis of Depp’s claims there. “Although the claims are similar in the sense they both relate to claims of abuse by Plaintiff,” Azcarate writes, “the statements being defended in the UK case are inherently different than the statements published by Defendant.
At the time Depp sued Heard in Virginia for $50 million, the Commonwealth had developed a reputation as a friendly venue for libel suits that had tenuous relationships to it, making it a “last year, referring to lawsuits that would likely fail elsewhere. Indeed, Depp’s suit as well as U.S.
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