Ed Sheeran Trial’s Second Day of Testimony Interrupted by Plaintiff Collapsing in Court

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The copyright case in which Ed Sheeran is being sued for allegedly lifting portions of Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” for his own “Thinking Out Loud” took on some unexpected drama Wednesday afternoon when the plaintiff, Kathryn Townsend Griffin, collapsed and had to be carried out of court, causing an interruption in otherwise routine testimony.

According to CNN, Townsend Griffin (pictured above left) — the daughter of “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Griffin — fainted about two minutes into the Sheeran team’s cross-examination of a musicologist who had been brought in to testify that there was a substantial similarity between the two songs.

The news channel reported that Townsend Griffin’s eyes closed and her legs buckled, leading members of both the Sheeran and Townsend Griffin legal teams to leap to her assistance and lift her by her arms and legs to a place where she could receive medical attention, amid shouts to call 911, before she was removed from court on a stretcher.

Altogether, court proceedings were halted for about 15 minutes before testimony continued. At the end of court proceedings, the judge inquired about Townsend Griffin and was told she had been taken to the hospital.