Amber Heard files 16-point grounds for appeal in Johnny Depp court battle
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Amber Heard filed an appellate brief listing 16 grounds for appeal on Monday, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital. Johnny Depp won the defamation lawsuit in June.
The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star argued that Heard defamed him in a 2018 op-ed she wrote detailing domestic abuse. Janelle Ash is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital.
Heard lost the defamation case, but was awarded $2 million in her countersuit as jurors found that Depp defamed her through his attorney.
According to documents filed Monday and obtained by Fox News Digital, the grounds of the appeal include "clear and convincing evidence" for actual malice and the court’s "failure" to invalidate the damages the court awarded after the jury found that both Depp and Heard defamed each other.
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