denied on Thursday<\/a> a motion for summary judgment filed by Jones. It keeps the case on track for a jury trial.<\/p>\nThe plaintiff claims that Jones sexually assaulted her in 2018, during a private event at AT&T Stadium after a Cowboys game. The case was filed in 2020, dismissed in 2022, and reinstated on appeal.<\/p>\n
The trial date has been delayed on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n
A motion for summary judgment arises from the basic argument that there is no need for a jury to sift through the facts of the case and make a decision as to what did, or didn\u2019t, happen. In a situation like this, where witness credibility will be critical, it\u2019s very difficult to persuade a judge to not allow a jury to hear and see all evidence before deliberating toward a verdict.<\/p>\n
The fact that the judge conducted a hearing on Thursday and issued a ruling the same day underscores the basic reality that, in this case, the conflicting positions (the plaintiff claims Jones did it, and he denies it) should be sorted out by a jury.<\/p>\n
The case could settle at any time. Often, the denial of a motion for summary judgment becomes the spark for moving the lawsuit toward a resolution.<\/p>\n
Trial is currently set for July 20, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-year old sexual assault lawsuit against Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is heading to trial. The trial, however,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-199110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}