Garth Brooks Wants California Rape Case Dismissed and Handled in Mississippi; Singer Takes West Coast Case from State to Federal Court

Garth Brooks wasted no time in making his next move after the “We Will Be Free” singer took his rape case from a former makeup artist and stylist and Trisha Yearwood moved from California state court to federal court.

In a 17-page motion to dismiss filed late today in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Brooks and O’Melveny & Myers attorneys seek immediate closure of Jane Roe’s West Coast case. They requested a hearing before Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in downtown Los Angeles on the morning of December 9th.

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Read Garth Brooks’ petition to dismiss the California rape case against him and move it to Mississippi here

Identified by name by Brooks In a document filed Oct. 8 in federal court in Mississippi.the former employee claimed:chart and his $75,000 application for unspecified damages on October 3. The “Friends in Low Places” singer was the victim of an overwhelmingly “painful and traumatic” attack, the Los Angeles Superior Court heard.

Jane Roe’s lawyer, Doug Wigdor, stated that Brooks took advantage of her with constant groping, obscene words and more starting from 2019, because he knew how much Jane Roe needed to work, and said, “Brooks believes that she has the right to sexual satisfaction whenever she wants. and it is fair game for a female employee to take advantage of this situation.”

Brooks, who has denied the accusations and the claim that his previous appeal in Mississippi was “a blatant attempt to further control and bully the sexual assault victim by using his multimillionaire resources to game the legal system,” said the matter was a shake-up to destroy him. “Write a check for millions of dollars.”

Going back to the original anonymous lawsuit that Brooks himself preemptively filed in mid-September, the county singer today also wants all cases moved to Mississippi and refiled Jane Roe’s lawsuit as a countersuit. As the thunder rolls, the one-two punch of Brooks attorneys Daniel Petrocelli (who seems to be focusing on big-name and big-studio cases for the past few years), Megan K. Smith and Eric Amdursky are putting their well-manicured thumbs on the precedent. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Long law short: Brooks’ team insists his client files in the Magnolia State on September 13, and Jane Roe files in the Golden State on October 3 like that “duplicate case.”

Today’s motion states that the Federal Rule “requires that all ‘permanent counterclaims’ (claims based on the same essential facts as Roe’s) be litigated in the first action filed and not in a parallel action in another court.” “Thus, if a plaintiff moves these claims outside of the original lawsuit, the court presiding over the subsequent lawsuit must either dismiss the claims or stay them while the original lawsuit is pending,” he continues.

“Roe itself acknowledges that the cases overlap,” Brooks’ attorneys say.

“In fact, a few days after Brooks’ attorney met with Roe’s attorney to discuss this Motion to Dismiss, Roe filed a motion asking the court in the Southern District of Mississippi to transfer the Mississippi Case to this Court because: Brooks per Roe ‘s tort claims against Roe are necessary counterclaims arising from the same factual facts,” they say.

Roe’s lawyers did not respond to Brooks’ tactics in federal court. But Wigdor partner Jeanne M. Christensen said of Brooks’ ultimately successful attempt to have Jane Roe’s case transferred from the Los Angeles Superior Court to federal jurisdiction: “This is just more of the same bullying and intimidation that Garth Brooks used . from the moment he learned that our client intended to hold him responsible. “We look forward to appearing in front of the jury and getting to the bottom of this case.”

Brooks will resume his residency at Caesars Palace on Dec. 5 and will almost certainly be unable to attend a hearing in downtown Los Angeles a few days later. But a few days ago it seemed pretty clear that the singer was thinking about more than just Sin City.

“The truth… we didn’t say it with one voice, it was actually people who were there who were there,” Brooks said during an Inside Studio G broadcast live on Facebook earlier this week.

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