Amber Heard's attorneys have requested that the court throw out the verdict in her defamation case with Johnny Depp, and either dismiss the case completely or order a fresh trial.
According to court documents, Depp was awarded damages that were too high and not supported by evidence in court documents filed July 1, 2003, Fairfax County Circuit Court, Virginia.
Depp is also accused of using "time-barred" and judicially protected statements to support his innuendo claims.
Heard and Depp were each found guilty of defamation in the lawsuits they filed against each other last month.
However, Depp was awarded $15 million in damages and Heard only $2 million.
Heard's lawyers claim they were wrongly prevented from mentioning that Depp lost the highly publicized libel suit
against The Sun newspaper publisher in Britain in 2020. Depp claimed that he was an abusive husband.
This sparked a courtroom fight between the former couples. The Sun article contained 14 allegations of violence. The judge accepted 12 of them.
These abuses have been denied by Depp.
Heard's lawyers claim that Depp's team failed to prove any financial or reputational damage as a result
Heard's Washington Post opinion piece at the heart of the Virginia case. Depp failed to prove actual malice, according to Heard.
Heard's lawyers also claim that information sent to counsel by Heard prior to trial on the jury panel list appears to be inconsistent with demographics of one juror.
Her lawyers point out that Juror 15 was born in 1970, not 1945. They ask if the juror was properly vetted and qualified to serve.
In a court filing, Heard asks for an investigation into the discrepancy.
Hearst argues that Heard's due procedure was compromised if Heard was not the same person on the list or if the clerk failed to verify his identity.