Judge rejects Depp bid to dismiss Heard counter-suit as Kate Moss set to testify

Heard has met threshold for case to continue, judge rules a day before Moss, Depp’s ex-girlfriend, is to be called as a witness

The judge in the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial has rejected an effort by Depp’s lawyers to dismiss Heard’s $100m counter-suit against the actor, a day before the British supermodel Kate Moss is expected to testify followed by a final return of Depp to the stand.

Depp’s attorneys, who are rebutting after Heard’s lawyers rested their case on Monday, had argued that Heard failed to prove any “actual malice” had occurred when Depp’s former PR person Adam Waldman told the Daily Mail she had created an “abuse hoax”.

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