Garth Brooks has filed to dismiss the sexual assault and battery lawsuit against him.
Brooks, 62, filed a new motion late on Friday, November 8 obtained by Deadline, requesting a hearing to officially close the legal battle. He previously asked for the case to transfer from Mississippi to federal court. The hearing is requested for December 9.
“Indeed, a few days after Brooks’ counsel reached out to Roe’s counsel to meet and confer about this Motion to Dismiss, Roe filed a motion in the Southern District of Mississippi that asked the court there to transfer the Mississippi Action to this Court because, according to Roe, Brooks’ tort claims against Roe are compulsory counterclaims that arise from the same operative facts,” the court documents read.
Roe, an anonymous hairstylist who accused Brooks of assault, has not responded to his claims. One of her attorneys, Jeanne M. Christensen, however, told Deadline, “This is just more of the same bullying and intimidation Garth Brooks has used from the moment he learned our client intended to hold him accountable. We look forward to getting before a jury and reaching the merits of this case.”