Amber Heard is asking Fairfax County Circuit Court judge to waive the recent verdict of the defamation case brought against her by Johnny Depp.Lawyers for Aquaman actress recently filed a 43-page document, arguing that the outcome of the trial, more than $10 million (£8.2 million) was not supported by evidence.They argued against Johnny's claims that the 59-year-old reportedly lost his job on Pirates of the Caribbean, due to claims made by Heard in a 2018 opinion piece for the Washington Post.READ MORE: Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow pictures reinstated at Disneyland after court caseAmber, 36, documented her experience with domestic abuse – Johnny's name was not mentioned in the article but his lawyers argued it "falsely implied" she was a victim of abuse during their marriage.Her legal team asked the court to put the verdict which was in favour of Johnny aside, dismiss the complaint or call for a new trial.Amber's legal team also claim that just one of three statements was found to be defamatory and the article wasn't written by Heard, she simply retweeted it on Twitter the day after it was published.In a court document signed by Elaine Bredehoft, a lawyer for Amber, Johnny allegedly "proceeded solely on a defamation by implication theory, abandoning any claims that Ms Heard's statements were actually false."While Depp's later Ben Chew argued "what we expected, just longer, no more substantive."Heard's lawyers also asked whether one member of the jury served properly on the trial, arguing that Juror 15 had a 25-year difference in their age on the court documents and documents that are publicly available.They argued that Juror 15 was listed as being born in 1945 but "was clearly born later than 1945.
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