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Chyna Lawyers Call Kardashian/Jenner Dismissal Motion Untimely

Posted by Contributing Editor on August 16, 2018 in Crime | Leave a response
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A judge said Thursday he will decide in October if Kim and Khloe Kardashian and Kris and Kylie Jenner can seek dismissal of defamation allegations filed against them by Blac Chyna, who alleges the four women falsely claimed she physically abused former boyfriend Rob Kardashian.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Randolph Hammock said he would not rule Thursday on a motion brought by Chyna’s lawyers, who want the anti-SLAPP motion filed Aug. 9 stricken on grounds it should have been brought sooner by the Kardashian-Jenner lawyers. If the four women are allowed to proceed with the motion, it would limit the Chyna lawyers’ ability to obtain discovery in their client’s underlying case up until the dismissal motion is decided and possibly beyond if the ruling is appealed.

But Hammock said that even if the anti-SLAPP motion is allowed to move forward to a hearing, Chyna’s lawyers can still seek discovery on a limited basis.

“No one is going to die, no one is going to suffer irreparable harm,” said Hammock, who scheduled a hearing for Oct. 1 on whether the anti-SLAPP motion can proceed to a hearing.

An anti-SLAPP — a strategic lawsuit against public participation — is a complaint intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

Chyna, 30, and Rob Kardashian, 31, began dating in January 2016 and had a baby girl, Dream, that November. They split a month later and Chyna sued Rob Kardashian, his mother and three of his sisters in October 2017.

In July 2017, he used social media to post pictures of Chyna’s naked breasts, backside and genitals. He also accused her of sleeping with another man in “the same bed Chyna and I made our baby in.” He later took down some of the photos.

In her lawsuit, Chyna, whose real name is Angela White, alleged she suffered significant damages and that the scandal caused her reality show with her ex-boyfriend, “Rob & Chyna,” to be canceled by E! She alleges that E! would have granted her a second season of the show but for alleged false statements against her, including alleged comments by the four female defendants to E! Network representatives in late 2016 and early 2017 that Chyna physically abused Rob Kardashian.

According to the dismissal motion — which focuses on the four women, but not Rob Kardashian — Chyna’s lawsuit “fails to identify any specific statements allegedly made by defendants about plaintiff physically abusing Rob Kardashian except for a single statement allegedly made by Kylie Jenner to an E! executive.”

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However, the evidence “unequivocally establishes” that the remark was “not understood in a defamatory manner,” according to the Kardashian-Jenner court papers. “And in any event, statements about plaintiff physically abusing Rob Kardashian are not false because … plaintiff in fact physically attacked Mr. Kardashian.”

Other allegations in Chyna’s complaint are currently being mulled by Hammock, who took those issues under submission on Tuesday.

Chyna Lawyers Call Kardashian/Jenner Dismissal Motion Untimely was last modified: August 16th, 2018 by Contributing Editor

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