A Nevada lady has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in the United States. She lost her quest to make Cristiano Ronaldo pay millions more than the $375,000 compensation she got after claiming he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.
The case was thrown out of court on Friday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey in Las Vegas to penalize the woman's lawyer, Leslie Mark Stovall, for "bad faith behavior" and the use of "pilfered" confidential documents, which the judge said stained the case beyond redemption.
In her 42-page judgement, Dorsey acknowledged that dropping a case without possibly re-filing it is a harsh punishment, but she claimed that Stovall's actions had injured Ronaldo.
According to the ruling, the embezzled records and their confidential contents have been woven through the cloth of [plaintiff Kathryn] Mayorga's claims.
Simply rejecting Stovall will not remedy the prejudice against Ronaldo because embezzled documents and their confidential components have indeed been knitted into the cloth of [plaintiff Kathryn] Mayorga's assertions, the ruling said. Sanctions are warranted. Neither Stovall nor an associate, Larissa Drohobyczer, responded to phone calls or emails left for them this coming Saturday. They can appeal the ruling to the 9th United States Appeals Court in San Francisco.
Mayorga was solely referred to as the plaintiff in a statement "Cristiano Ronaldo's lawyer in Las Vegas, Peter Christiansen, just said that his client's legal team welcomed the decision.
The statement stated, "We have believed the action was filed in ill faith." "The unambiguous dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint should restore faith in the legal system. Inside the judicial system in this country while discouraging all Those who aim to undermine it," the court stated.
The Associated Press rarely names people who claim to have been sexual assault victims. Despite this, Mayorga gave Stovall and Drohobyczer permission to make her name public. In his lawsuit for more than $25 million in damages, he claims that Ronaldo or his companions were involved in a car accident. Friends violated a 2010 confidentiality agreement by allowing reports about it to appear in European publications; Characteristics missed a procedural deadline over time. Characteristics failed to reach a due process time limit over his bid for further than $25 million in damages based on accusations that Ronaldo or his affiliates violated a 2010 nondisclosure by permitting reports about it to appear in European newspapers; the parties have reached an understanding. Newspapers.
According to Mayorga's civil lawsuit, Ronaldo or his allies broke the law, which was first filed in state court in 2018 and then brought to federal court in 2019. The gag order was first before German news outlet Der Spiegel posted an article titled "Cristiano Ronaldo's Secret," based on data received from "whistleblower portal Football Leaks."
According to Ronaldo's legal team, the allegations were based on digital privacy breaches of documents obtained from legal firms and other businesses in Europe and placed up for sale. Christiansen further stated that data had been manipulated or made up.
The lawsuit claims she met Ronaldo at a nightclub and took him and others to his hotel suite, where she claims he raped her in a bedroom. At the time, she was 25 years old. At the moment, he was 24 years old.
Ronaldo's legal team admits that he met Mayorga in June 2009 and had sex with him; however, it was voluntary rather than rape.
Mayorga reported the assault to Las Vegas police at the time. According to police and prosecutors, the investigation has been abandoned because Mayorga did not name her claimed attacker or say the crime occurred, according to police and prosecutors.
Ronaldo, at 37, is among the world's most well-known and well-paid athletes. He is a member of Manchester United of the English Premier League. Ronaldo has also captained the national squad of his native Portugal. He played for Juventus, a Turin-based team, over the past couple of years.
Las Vegas police reopened their rape investigation after Mayorga's lawsuit, but Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson declined to press charges in 2019.
Wolfson, Las Vegas's elected public prosecutor, stated that too much time had gone and that evidence had failed to indicate Mayorga's accusations were valid beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.
Mayorga did not break the deal to silence Stovall, according to Stovall. Ronaldo and prestige "fixers" were accused of conspiracy, libel, breach of contract, coercion, and fraud in her complaint. Stovall calculated damages at $25 million when she filed last year's complaint.
According to the attorney, Mayorga had learning impairments as a youngster and was under such duress from Ronaldo's attorneys and advisers that she could not consent to dismissing her court filing and accepting the $375,000 payment in August 2010.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts, who oversaw preliminary and procedural findings, recommended that the lawsuit be dismissed for poor faith, "inappropriate conduct" by Stovall, and reliance on stolen and leaked information.
Albregts wrote to Dorsey in an October 2021 report that "there is no feasible way to proceed with this case if the court cannot discern what claims and evidence are based on these confidential materials. "Albregts complained that Stovall misused the football leak materials to pursue Mayorga's case. He criticized Stovall for using legal tactics and the court record to publicize the secrecy agreement. He advised Dorsey not to accept Stovall's assertion that Mayorga had the mental capacity to sign the 2010 agreement.
The 9th Circuit said earlier this year that Dorsey would have to decide that issue.
According to Dorsey's ruling, the public might still be able to see the Las Vegas police report generated regarding Ronaldo after Mayorga filed her complaint in 2018. In March, Albregts stated that refusing the New York Times access to the information gathered by the police "would almost likely raise the spectre of government censorship.'" He suggested that Dorsey transfer the newspaper's organization and may decide for materials to a state court.
According to Albregts, a protective order issued by Dorsey to restrict the dissemination of the 2010 agreement does not extend to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Force and "does not prevent LVMPD from sharing its criminal investigative file."
Attorney Margaret McLetchie, representing the publication, did not respond to a message regarding the lawsuit on Saturday. Data for plant height showed that highly significant differences were present among maize genotypes. The differences among genotypes for a plant height range from 185.82 to 256.67cm, with a grand mean of 226.80cm. The graph for plant height showed that variety 2 performed best with a 253.71cm mean value, whereas variety 15 showed the lowest mean value of 190.23cm. Genotypes had 4008.87 phenotypic variances, resulting from genotypic plus environmental variance for plant height character.
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