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Garth Brooks Wants California Rape Case Dismissed & Handled In Mississippi; Singer Gets West Coast Case Moved From State To Federal Court

Garth Brooks Rape Case Latest: Singer Wants Venue Moved To Mississippi

Rejecting the accusations and the claim that his previous filing in Mississippi was “a blatant attempt to further control and bully his sexual assault victim by utilizing his multi-millionaire resources to game the legal system,” Brooks quickly said the matter was shakedown to make him “write a check for many millions of dollars.” Harking back to the originally anonymous action that Brooks himself preemptively filed in mid-September, the county singer today is also seeking to see all proceedings moved to Mississippi and for Jane Roe to refile her case as counterclaims. The Federal Rule “mandates that all ‘compulsory counterclaims’—claims, like Roe’s, that turn on the same basic set of facts—be litigated in the first-filed action, not in a parallel suit in another court,” today’s motion states.

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