- Manhattan judge has ordered Johnny Depp to pay $38,000 to ACLU.
- Money was used to cover “substantial expense spent responding to onerous subpoenas served by Mr. Depp.
- Manhatten Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron reduced the payable sum to half of what had first been requested.
A Manhattan judge has ordered Johnny Depp to pay $38,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for the evidence used in the libel action against Amber Heard. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor was first requested to pay $86,000 in legal fees by the non-profit group.
According to a Law & Crime story, Stephanie Teplin, an attorney for the ACLU, said that the money was used to cover “substantial expense spent responding to onerous subpoenas served by Mr. Depp from an underlying lawsuit in which neither the ACLU nor any of its employees are parties.”
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However, after the actor’s attorney submitted a motion, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron reduced the payable sum to half of what had first been requested.
The initial demand made by the nonprofit that assisted Heard in writing and publishing the iconic op-ed in The Washington Post was deemed “exorbitant and unjustified” by Depp’s attorney Jessica Meyers.
Meyers said, “They [ACLU] were in charge of writing and publishing the op-ed that the Virginia jury just ruled to be defamatory to Mr. Depp.
An ACLU representative told Newsweek that the group is “pleased that the Court recognised that the ACLU complied with Mr. Depp’s requests and did so at substantial expense” following the court’s decision.
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