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Team Rocket Elite posted...

What are the legal obligations for the ACLU in this case in regards to fact checking Amber's claims before publication? Are they potentially on the hook for anything if it is decided that Amber lied or did they do enough? (assuming they had to do anything at all)

Was there no objection to this question?

Well, the ACLU is not legally obligated to anything because it's proven they didn't write any of the slanderous stuff in there that referred to Johnny Depp, Amber solely wrote it and wanted it in. Their team and Amber's team of lawyers are just dummies for thinking it absolutely skirted her NDA, and defamation. Their defense would just be that they trusted Amber's account of events. They won't be sued.

Also, there was an objection to that question while he was answering, and he rephrased it to "Is it correct that Ms. Heard was out having fun with her friends?" "Oh yeah, they were partying it up! They were partying."

Isquen posted...

I've been vaguely following the trial but I binged Dr. Curry's testimony. She is a saint for explaining out terms as she goes, and also for acknowledging "yes, there's inherent bias in a courtroom setting." I wish half of the experts I had dealt with back when I worked as a criminal defense paralegal were as enlightening - although my boss may have picked them simply *because* of how obfuscating their terminology was.

Yeah, it's extremely hard and runs such a risk of alienating the jurors, but I think she did as good of a job as she could have explaining all of this to them. Because it's so hard for experts to be able to speak laymen to people sometimes. It crashes and burns so much.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

The ACLU making one of the worst domestic abusers in Hollywood history an "Ambassador" annihilates their credibility as a charity. They really need to recover their image FAST if they want to survive. I think a first step - after bussing Amber like this - would be making Depp an Ambassador, given the obscene amount of abuse he took from this harpy.

It doesn't matter what Heard's side presents - her career is over. Even if the jury decides there's not enough evidence to convict her of defamation, nobody's gonna want to work with her after this. There are so many people corroborating the same things, and that's proof enough that Amber Heard is vile.

It's the ACLU. I think they'll just put out a bullshit statement about how they didn't know and they'll be forgiven. I think Amber Heard's career is finished here too. The moment she gets on the stand, she is just not going to escape being impeached to hell and back, because she's told so many stories that already contradict so many stories with evidence of her lying constantly. They haven't even presented any of the letters from Children's Hospital of them having asked Amber where the money she promised to send them was, because if I recall right, they actually got $0 to help sick children from her. Just stuff like that is going to kill her dead.

red sox 777 posted...

There's an actual malice (actual knowledge of falsity or reckless indifference) standard so it's very hard for them to get in trouble. Unless there's evidence that they didn't believe Amber but published her anyway, which I doubt exists.

Biscuit, division of community property in California is usually not a taxable event. The idea is you are dividing property you already own (not income) so why would there be a tax to receive what is yours by right?

Sorry, I probably didn't clarify this enough. It was the taxable amount of the settlement money, so it was the $7 million he gave her that she demanded that he accept the tax from. I kind of conflated all of it together.

TheRock1525 posted...

The irony being that if Heard can't find work, she couldn't possibly pay the $50 million she'd owe if found guilty. Her net worth isn't even a 20% of that.

As red sox said, she can declare bankruptcy.

Let me note a couple things though:

First, this amount comes from the lost amount of money he's losing from the next Pirates installment that could have been made in which he would get approximately $50 million for.

Second, it's highly unlikely he'll get that much. If I remember right, the Virginia jury decides the amount (yeah, it's weird). Getting $50 million is unprecedented and as far as I know would be higher than any defamation amount ever awarded. I think the Judge can overrule the amount too. They could decide to award him $1. Flex move would be to give him his divorce settlement back.

Third, Amber Heard actually requested $100 million in her counter claim. How she got $100 million she'd supposedly lose as a result of Johnny Depp suing her is anyone's guess, but she basically just sued Johnny for twice as much because who the fuck knows why. Needless to say, her counter claim has little chance of success.