Amber Heard files 16-point grounds for appeal in Johnny Depp court battle

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Amber Heard and her new legal team have filed an appellate brief listing 16 grounds for appeal, Fox News Digital can confirm.

A jury awarded her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, $10.3 million in damages after he won their defamation trial that dominated the headlines over the summer.

The "Pirates of the Caribbean" star argued that Heard defamed him in a 2018 op-ed she wrote detailing domestic abuse. Amber Heard filed a notice of appeal a month after a jury awarded Johnny Depp $10.3 million in damages. (Getty Images) Heard lost the defamation case, but was awarded $2 million in her countersuit as jurors found that Depp defamed her through his attorney.

According to documents filed Monday and obtained by Fox News Digital, the grounds of the appeal include "clear and convincing evidence" for actual malice and the court’s "failure" to invalidate the damages the court awarded after the jury found that both Depp and Heard defamed each other. "Inherently and irreconcilably inconsistent," the appeal stated of the damages.