Megan Thee Stallion pushed for court docket sanctions after Tory Lanez ignored a choose’s order to clarify his disruptive deposition habits in a defamation case.

Megan Thee Stallion is urging a Florida federal choose to penalize Tory Lanez after he failed to clarify his erratic conduct throughout a court-ordered deposition in her ongoing defamation lawsuit.

Megan’s attorneys have requested the choose to impose sanctions on Lanez for ignoring an April 17 order that required him to justify why he shouldn’t be held in contempt. The order adopted a deposition on April 9 that rapidly unraveled into what Megan’s authorized group described as “bad faith” conduct.

Lanez is at the moment incarcerated in California, the place he’s serving a 10-year sentence for the 2020 capturing of Megan Thee Stallion. He was formally served with the order however by no means responded by the April 30 deadline.

Megan’s attorneys famous that no listening to has been scheduled but and have now filed a proper discover to maneuver the method ahead. They are asking the court docket to pressure Tory Lanez to cowl all authorized charges associated to the deposition and to nominate a particular grasp—at Lanez’s expense—to supervise any future testimony.

If that’s not granted, they’ve requested a listening to as quickly as potential.

The deposition, carried out by way of Zoom from jail, was a part of Megan’s $10 million defamation case towards YouTuber Milagro Gramz.

The lawsuit accuses Gramz of spreading false claims about Megan’s psychological well being, honesty underneath oath and alleged substance abuse, allegedly in coordination with Lanez and his father.

During the deposition, Tory Lanez repeatedly interrupted proceedings, mocked the process and insulted Megan’s attorney, Mari Henderson.

At one level, he mentioned, “Your hair is distracting me. There’s a reason for what I am asking. Your hair is distracting me.” He additionally added, “She should have waited to wait for that hair dye. It is the wrong blonde.”

He challenged Henderson’s authority to query him and made sarcastic remarks about primary authorized phrases. When requested to outline “meet,” Lanez launched right into a tangent: “Meat could be a hot dog; meat could be a steak.”

The deposition was lower quick after about an hour attributable to his refusal to cooperate.

Just weeks after the failed deposition, Tory Lanez was stabbed 14 times contained in the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi. The May 12 assault left him with collapsed lungs and a number of accidents to his again, torso, head and face. He has since recovered sufficient to breathe with out help.

The court docket has but to schedule a listening to on the contempt movement.

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