“Due to her legal professional’s abuses and flagrant circumvention of the right litigation course of, Mayorga loses her alternative to pursue this case and try and unwind the settlement of claims that, themselves, implicate critical allegations of a extremely private nature,” Dorsey wrote.
The case was dismissed with prejudice, that means Mayorga can not refile the criticism.
Mayorga stated she was coerced into signing a nondisclosure settlement and $375,000 settlement following the alleged rape, which Ronaldo has maintained was a consensual sexual encounter. Mayorga had requested the choose to void that settlement.
The existence of the settlement was first reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel in 2017 utilizing leaked confidential communications from Ronaldo’s attorneys.
The courtroom discovered that considered one of Mayorga’s attorneys, Leslie Stovall, reached out to the supply of that leak to request these paperwork, together with “the reporting and communications of the attorneys and investigators representing and defending Ronaldo following the sexual assault via the negotiations and conclusion of the settlement and non-disclosure settlement.”
“Stovall’s repeated use of stolen, privileged paperwork to persecute this case has each indicia of bad-faith conduct,” Decide Dorsey wrote Friday.
The choose discovered that “the misappropriated paperwork and their confidential contents have been woven into the very material of Mayorga’s claims,” stating that merely hanging the leaked paperwork from the case and disqualifying Stovall wouldn’t adequately deal with the misconduct.
CNN has reached out to Stovall for touch upon the choice.
Ronaldo’s legal professional, Peter Christiansen, stated in an e mail to CNN Saturday, “Because the Plaintiff first filed go well with in 2018, we’ve got maintained the motion was introduced in unhealthy religion. The outright dismissal of Plaintiff’s case ought to give all who observe this matter renewed confidence within the judicial course of on this nation whereas dissuading those that search to undermine it.”