Bob Dylan: Musician's lawyers seek 'monetary damages' after collapse of sexual abuse allegation

Bob Dylan'southward lawyers are seeking a "monetary sanctions" confronting the legal team that sued the musician alleging sexual abuse.

The lawsuit, which claimed that Dylan sexually assaulted a 12-yr-old girl in 1965, was dropped in July, and Billboard reports that the singer'due south chaser is now complying with sanctions, citing "shameless misconduct". are.

Orrin Snyder, who led Dylan'south legal squad, wrote to a federal judge to say that the woman's attorneys, Daniel W. Isaacs and Peter J. Gleason, "should not have taken this action — alleging [Dylan] of a heinous law-breaking—if it was non their intention to prosecute responsibly".

The woman, identified as Jesse, declared that Dylan abused her in his room at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan when he was 23 or 24 years old. Dylan denied the claims, his representatives stating the "chronological impossibility" of the accusation given his well-documented whereabouts during this menses, and describing the case as a "lawyer-driven sham."

Before dropping the lawsuit, Dylan'southward legal squad accused the woman of destroying evidence because she failed to submit emails and text messages by the court-mandated deadlines. He appears to accept acquitted his legal team – a claim that Snyder disputed in his letter, pushing back against the claim that "plaintiff voluntarily 'discharged' his lawyer".

Snyder wrote to the judge: "Mr Isaacs and Mr Gleason failed to produce the documents they should take had and should have been reviewed before this trial was brought in the start place.

"Every bit we said in open court last week, we have seen a number of documents, including multiple emails between Plaintiffs and key third parties, whose attorneys apparently never bothered to interview, the plaintiffs' allegations. weakened and fragmented."

Snyder called it "a paradigm instance for sanctions to address a lawyer'due south brazen search misconduct", adding that "the attorney flouted his search obligations for months and his failure to nowadays documents to the court." warnings were ignored".

Isaacs responded in a letter that the lawsuit was "brought in expert faith and with the intention of prosecuting the affair responsibly". He blamed the bug on the "repetition" of his client, whom he said refused to hand over key materials despite repeated requests.

"At no point did either Mr. Gleason or I intentionally forestall the search or engage in search misconduct," he wrote. "Nosotros attempted to comply with the best of the circumstances, including the plaintiff suffering PTSD, which intensified when his identity was illegally made public afterward this action was initiated."

It's unclear how much compensation Dylan's lawyers are seeking; According to Billboard, a course of sanctions could force Isaac and Gleason to recoup Dylan's legal fees.

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