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Johnny Depp To Be Defended In A New Court Case By Camille Vasquez

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Ms Vasquez will represent Johnny Depp in a personal injury lawsuit against him by Gregg โ€œRockyโ€ Brooks, the filmโ€™s site manager.

For the second time, actor Johnny Depp will be represented in court by attorney Camille Vasquez. Ms Vasquez rose to fame during Mr Deppโ€™s high-profile defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard.

The 37-year-old attorney will now defend the Pirates of the Caribbean star in a personal injury lawsuit filed against him by Gregg โ€œRockyโ€ Brooks, location manager for the film City of Lies, alongside fellow Brown Rudnick partner Randall Smith.

Mr Brooks claims that Mr Depp โ€œmaliciously and forciblyโ€ punched him twice in the ribs before offering him $100,000 to strike him back in the face, according to the Independent. The incident occurred in April of 2017. Mr Brooks further alleged that the Hollywood actorโ€™s actions were โ€œintentional and malevolentโ€ and intended to humiliate him.

Furthermore, Mr Brooks claims that Mr Deppโ€™s โ€œintoxication and fury created a hostile, abusive, and unsafe work environment.โ€ According to the court docs, the location manager was sacked from the film because he refused to sign a release relinquishing his right to sue over the event.

According to the publication, Mr Deppโ€™s attorneys deny that the actor or his co-defendants hit Mr Brooks. They have maintained, however, that his injuries were caused by โ€œself-defense/defense of othersโ€ and that Mr Brooks โ€œprovokedโ€ the actions that resulted in his injuries.

The trial will begin on July 25 in Los Angeles County Superior Court in the United States. Camille Vasquez will be back in court with Johnny Depp for the case.

After the Amber Heard defamation trial in Fairfax County, Virginia, Ms Vasquez was promoted to partner at Brown Rudnick. During the seven weeks that the court was in session, the 37-year-old attorney became a celebrity among Mr Deppโ€™s many admirers inside and outside the courtroom.

She had bravely questioned Amber Heard. Among the highlights had been when she asked Ms Heard if she had donated the $7 million divorce settlement sum to charity as promised. Ms Vasquez pointed up the misdirection when Ms Heard tried to avoid answering directly by indicating that she had โ€œpledgedโ€ the money to several charities, saying, โ€œMs Heard, respectfully, that is not my question.โ€

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Protests, Arson Across Country As Youth Takes To Streets Over Centreโ€™s Agnipath Scheme

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According to sources, in Arrah, the police fired tear gas shells at protesters gathered at a railway station.

NEW DELHI: The governmentโ€™s new defence recruitment scheme Agnipath has sparked a major debate. While the government has termed it transformative, the lawmakers within the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and those in opposition have questioned the intentions of the government. Street Protests were held by youth at various places in the country.

Army aspirants disrupted rail and road traffic in several parts of Bihar on Wednesday in protest against the โ€œAgnipathโ€ scheme which proposes the recruitment of jawans on a contractual basis for four years followed by compulsory retirement for most without gratuity and pension benefits. A train was set on fire at a railway station in Bihar where students were protesting against the governmentโ€™s Agnipath defence recruitment scheme.

In the Buxar district, more than 100 young men stormed the railway station and squatted on the tracks, blocking the onward journey of the Patna-bound Janshatabdi Express for almost 30 minutes. Slogans against the scheme were raised .until security personnel led by RPF inspector Deepak Kumar and GRP SHO Ramashish Prasad, arrived at the spot and warned them against disruption of rail traffic. According to reports, in a section of the regional media that the protesters had pelted stones at Pataliputra Express, which passed through the station, though both Kumar and Prasad denied such an occurrence.

In Muzaffarpur town, a large number of Army aspirants vented their ire by placing burning tyres on the roads around the sprawling โ€œChakkar Maidanโ€ where they turn up in large numbers for physical tests which are mandatory for the recruitment of jawans.

They said they were exasperated to learn about the new job rules which have come after two years of โ€œno recruitmentโ€ by the armed forces despite their having passed the requisite physical tests.

Many Army aspirants also marched towards the Collectorate where they submitted a memorandum to the District Magistrate.

In Begusarai, Army aspirants, many of them NCC cadets, staged a demonstration at Mahadev Chowk where they marched a huge poster inscribed with the demand repeal of the Agnipath scheme.

Around 150 people blocked the Ajmer-Delhi National highway on Wednesday in protest.

According to sources, In Arrah, the police fired tear gas shells at protesters gathered at a railway station. Protests were also staged in Chhapra, Nawada Jehanabad, and Munger, Tyres were set ablaze at various places.

In UPโ€™s Bulandshahr, youth preparing for recruitment in the army took hit the streets with tricolours and posters against the governmentโ€™s new scheme. As the protesters blocked the roads, some clashes were reported between the youth and the police, as the latter forcefully cleared the jam.

Slogans were raised against Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Unnao and Shuklaganj, The police attempted to disperse the protesters.

BJP Lok Sabha member Varun Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the government on the newly announced Agnipath scheme for recruitment of soldiers into the armed forces, saying a government is elected for five years then why are youths being given four years to serve the nation.

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