"Jackie" ordered to testify for first time in Thursday deposition

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Jackie ordered to testify for first time in Thursday deposition

Motion for additional time for questioning granted in part

by Kathleen Smith | Apr 06 2016 | 10 hours ago

A Virginia judge ruled Wednesday that “Jackie” — whose story of an alleged gang rape was reported in a now-retracted article by Rolling Stone in 2014 — will be required to testify in former Assoc. Dean Nicole Eramo’s lawsuit against the magazine.

Jackie will be deposed by attorneys representing both Rolling Stone and Eramo, who is also suing the author of the retracted article, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, and Wenner Media.

This is the first time Jackie will testify under oath about the alleged attack.

Attorneys for Jackie, who is a third party to the lawsuit, have previously called to quash the subpoena for the deposition and for protections against any “burdensome discovery,” claiming the deposition would cause Jackie “severe harm,” according to court documents.

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1. UVa dean’s request to toss 'personal attacks' in 'Jackie' deposition is called 'ironic'

UVa dean’s request to toss 'personal attacks' in 'Jackie' deposition is called 'ironic'

Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:40 pm

By DEAN SEAL The Daily Progress

CHARLOTTESVILLE — The University of Virginia associate dean embroiled in a defamation lawsuit with Rolling Stone is asking the court to throw out “personal attacks” made by a former student during a recent deposition.

An attorney for “Jackie” — the young woman whose allegations of a brutal gang rape at an off-campus fraternity party served as the centerpiece of the magazine’s now-retracted article “A Rape on Campus” — filed documents in court Tuesday opposing motions from Nicole Eramo, the U.Va. administrator who believes she was cast as a villain in the article.

Eramo filed the $7.85 million lawsuit against Rolling Stone in May, weeks after Charlottesville police said they could not find evidence of Jackie’s claims and the magazine retracted the article. ... In the months after the lawsuit was filed, Eramo made multiple attempts to have Jackie cooperate with attorneys by turning over documents and sitting for a deposition. Following a heated war of words between Jackie and her former counselor, a judge ultimately sided with Eramo and ordered Jackie to comply and sit for a deposition, which took place at an undisclosed location April 7.

According to recent filings from Jackie, Eramo is now asking that “personal attacks” Jackie made during the deposition be thrown out of court, a move that Jackie’s counsel calls “ironic.” ... “Dean Eramo chose to bring this lawsuit against (Rolling Stone) and decided to attempt to prevail by subjecting (Jackie), a third-party sexual assault victim, to unduly burdensome, overly broad and irrelevant discovery requests,” the motion reads. “Dean Eramo has sought to use the court and the press as vehicles to attack and re-victimize (Jackie) and now seeks to censor (Jackie) in connection with (Jackie’s) effort to invoke her rights and enforce the rule of law.”