Kanye West files motion to overturn jury in Malibu mansion trial
Kanye West lost his Malibu mansion trial earlier this month, but has filed a motion to overturn the decision.
Ye was found liable in a trial against construction project manager and security guard Tony Saxon, who worked on his property.
He was forced to pay $100,000 for past and future medical expenses, and $40,000 for past pain and suffering.
However, according to People, Kanye asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to grant a new trial or reverse the decision on March 12th.
The motion read, “This case went to the jury without a single admissible medical bill, without any medical records establishing injury, and without expert testimony grounded in any reliable causation or valuation methodology. Yet the jury nevertheless awarded Plaintiff $100,000 in economic damages – $50,000 for past economic loss and $50,000 for future economic loss. That award cannot stand.”
Saxon was initially seeking $1.7 million in compensatory damages, but jurors found he hadn’t been wrongfully terminated and that Ye didn’t engage in “malice, oppression or fraud.”
Ye’s filing continued, “If the award represents medical damages, it lacks the substantial evidentiary support required under California law. If it represents compensation for the construction work [Saxon] performed, it is barred by the contractor licensing statutes. At a minimum, the Court should order a new trial limited to damages.”
In his lawsuit, Saxon claimed that he faced dangerous working conditions and wasn’t fully paid for his work.
In response to Kanye’s filing, Saxon’s lawyer, Ronald Zambrano, claimed the motion was an “attempt to relitigate an issue that was already denied by the Court prior to trial. We have a strong confidence the judge will make the same decisions and leave the jury’s verdict as is.”