A California sexual assault and battery lawsuit against country singer Garth Brooks has been paused as a Mississippi federal court weighs a complaint that Brooks filed first against his accuser.
Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in the US District Court for the Central District of California denied without prejudice Brooks’ motion to dismiss the California suit, where the country mogul is a defendant. A Mississippi judge will decide whether the case should also proceed in California, as it handles claims from Brooks that his former stylist is extorting him, the Wednesday order said.
The stylist, using a Jane Roe pseudonym, sued ...
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