Crockerinho

Wrestling Moderator

According to a document filed on May 31 in the United States District Court of Connecticut, the legal teams representing both World Wrestling Entertainment and Brock Lesnar met to plan out the "next phase" of Lesnar's current lawsuit against WWE. Lesnar is currently petitioning for a judgment by the court with WWE fighting it, allowing for the door to become open for an expected discovery period.

The meeting between both paries allowed the parameters of Lesnar vs. WWE to be presented. Lesnar's attorneys have asked that the court make a summary judgment on the case based on their filing in May and do not want any pleadings amended or any discovery periods to take place on their end, allowing them to wait for the court to render a decision. So, at this point, Lesnar's people are hoping that the court will make the decision to side with them and if any issues are not met to their satisfaction then they will move forward with the remaining key points of their case against WWE. It would be wise of them at this point to get the issue handled quietly and as swiftly as possible.

When this took place, WWE moved to block a summary judgment, noting strongly that there has been no discovery period performed by either party and petitioned that "because there are numerous material factual issues raised in the pleadings, this case is not ripe for summary judgment." The goal of WWE at this point is to push the case to a trial where they will have a legitimate shot at shooting down Lesnar's claims while defending what they stood by in their response. Both parties have made it clear that a settlement is unlikely between the two.

WWE's discovery period started on June 1 and is scheduled to end in September. WWE informed the court that they will be handling an International discovery in regards to Lesnar's "alleged" negotiations with New Japan Pro Wrestling and his appearance for the promotion earlier this year in January. WWE has also requested that they have until July 15 to add additional parties or amend their pleadings in the case that they uncover new facts that may prove to be beneficial to their defense of the lawsuit. The scheduled ending in September could be extended as well if that becomes the case. The gist of the focus in WWE's discovery period will focus on the circumstands regarding the two sides coming to a settlement agreement back in March of 2004 that Lesnar signed and what all of the specifics truly are. It should also be noted that both sides do not expect to file more than 25 interrogatories, which are a set of written questions proposed by one side that are required to be answered by the other in order to clarify matters of evidence and help to determine in advance what facts will be presented during the trial.

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Crockerinho

Wrestling Moderator

Credit: PWInsider.com

It appears as there is some new developments in the Brock Lesnar vs. WWE lawsuit. The WWE claims that Lesnar has not made himself available for deposition after "numerous attempts" to get this complete. The WWE claims that Lesnar's lawyers, "will not make Lesnar available for his deposition."

The WWE maintains that it needs appropriate time for discovery and to depose Lesnar, especially regarding his demands to rejoin the company. They claim that Lesnar and his lawyers "conveniently forgot" to inform the court that they were "limiting the number of days he would have to travel and/or appear as well as the days of the week he would have to travel and/or appear, the size or location of the venues in which he would have to appear, payment of his travel expenses (including a personal aircraft and pilot), and increased compensation and royalties."

The WWE has presented a lot of paper work to the court, including:

All documents regarding Lesnar's trip to Japan for the January 2005 New Japan Tokyo Dome event

Documents and releases Lesnar signed in conjunction with his appearance at the event.

Documents showing how Lesnar's hotel/travel/meals were paid for and/or reimbursed

Documents showing all income Lesnar has made since departing WWE.

Documents reflecting the communication between Lesnar's representatives and WWE in regard to a possible return.

Documents regarding Lesnar's transmission of his WWE Settlement Agreement with outside parties

As well as documents pertaining to any discussions Lesnar had with outside parties regarding that Agreement including his attorneys.

The WWE also claims that a summary judgment in Lesnar's favor would be premature.

AudioSavior

I guess he sold his plane he bought? I can't help in reading all this that we will see lesnar in WWE sooner or later.

Crockerinho

Wrestling Moderator

I say he will be back by the end of the year

Bouchie

I say awesome!

Chewy

I predict he will be the next big thing

Mikk

WC's Sexy Beast

I predict he will be a draft pic or something like a free agent that has to decide between raw & smackdown and he chooses ovw or tna :-)