JUDGE ORDERS MAYWEATHER TO PAY PACQUIAO'S LAWYERS $113,000
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Wed, 19 Sep 2012
Floyd Mayweather Jr has been ordered to pay over $113,000 for dodging a deposition several times on the charges of defamation filed against him by "Fighter of the Decade" Manny Pacquiao.
Tim Hull of Courthouse News said Pacquiao claimed Mayweather "defamed him by telling journalists and others that Pacquiao uses performance-enhancing drugs" and that when the undefeated Mayweather was "supposed to sit for deposition between June and October last year, he never showed."
Pacquiao's lawyers led by Atty. David Marroso had demanded sanctions against Mayweather and informed the court the fighter was "photographed at nightclubs across the country, dancing, drinking and burning money, all while claiming that he was too busy training."
Marroso told the court "Mayweather decided that he, not the court, would determine if and when his deposition would take place," according to the motion. "Busy living the 'luxurious lifestyle non-stop,' 'pour[ing] champagne for [his] friends,' and keeping the company of 'attractive women,' Mayweather refused to be deposed. He disobeyed properly served deposition notices, filed specious 'emergency' motions, openly defied this court's order directing him to appear, and serially misrepresented his whereabouts to Pacquiao and this court. Exposing Mayweather's untruths was a massive - and expensive - undertaking."
Hull reported that in October last year US District U.S. District Judge Larry Hicks in Las Vegas refused to grant Pacquiao default judgment on the basis of the discovery misdeeds, but he ordered Mayweather to pay deposition costs and attorneys' fees as a sanction.
Pacquiao had filed for attorneys' fees and the Judge Hicks entered an award of $113,518.50 on Monday.
In granting the award Judge Hicks said "The court notes that the award of attorney's fees in this matter is a sanction against Mayweather's obviously intentional decision not to appear for his court ordered deposition," Hicks wrote. "This was a direct discovery violation after the court had entered a very clear order that the deposition go forward."
Pacquiao's adviser Michael Koncz who is with Pacquiao in New York on the second leg of the promotional tour for the fourth showdown with Juan Manuel Marqauz at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas told the Manila Standard that the award was "an old issue and an old ruling that was just signed by the judge" apparently unwilling to capitalize on it.
Koncz said Pacquiao "is fine and will arrive in Manila on Sunday."
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