Amber Heard and Johnny Depp Now Awaiting Answers on Their Respective Appeals

On November 23, Amber Heard, by way of her latest legal team at Ballard Spahr, filed her brief to appeal the verdict in her ex-husband Johnny Depp’s defamation case against her. After the trial, a six-week public spectacle streamed from a Fairfax County, Virginia, courtroom from April to June, a jury found Heard responsible for three counts of defamation and awarded more than $10 million in damages to Depp. Heard hired a new firm post-trial, and the team is now led by First Amendment stars Jay Ward Brown and David L. Axelrod. The opening brief lays out several grounds for… Read Full Article