After Cardi B received a $4 million defamation lawsuit in opposition to YouTube persona Tasha Okay, the rapper now needs a gag order positioned on the blogger.
On Thursday, the Grammy-winning rapper requested a federal choose to completely ban Tasha Okay from posting “dangerous and disgusting lies” about her to the web, Billboard reported. Cardi needs to impose a everlasting injunction in opposition to Tasha the place a court docket ruling would drive the YouTuber to drag all defamatory claims in regards to the rapper from the web and ban her from reposting them.
“Plaintiff filed this motion as a result of defendants refused to cease focusing on her with dangerous and disgusting lies,” Cardi’s authorized workforce wrote.
“Damages alone are insufficient to handle the fixed ongoing menace of defendants repeating the defamatory statements [and] defendants have explicitly stated that they’ll proceed publishing the defamatory statements except an injunction is issued.”
The submitting comes after Cardi sued Tasha in 2019 for posting YouTube movies accusing the rapper of surprising allegations that she proved have been false. Since profitable the swimsuit, Cardi says Tasha hasn’t eliminated the entire movies with the defamatory claims, Rolling Stone studies.
“Not the entire movies and posts containing the defamatory statements have been faraway from defendants’ social media accounts,” Cardi’s submitting reads.
The brand new transient accuses Tasha, whose authorized identify is Latasha Kebe, of posing a “fixed ongoing menace” to Cardi even after she testified in January that she wouldn’t cease posting defamatory statements except compelled by the court docket.
“Except somebody really forces you to, you’re by no means going to cease repeating these statements about my consumer?” one among Cardi’s attorneys requested Tasha in court docket, the brand new submitting states.
“That’s right,” Kebe replied.
“So the one approach at this level these movies are ever going to return down is that if this court docket forces you to [remove them]. Is that proper?” the lawyer pressed.
“That’s right,” Kebe replied.
“Are you primarily saying that to cease you from calling my consumer ‘Chilly Sore B,’ my consumer must get a gag order?” the lawyer requested.
“Sure, ma’am,” Kebe replied.
The submitting additionally cites a tweet Tasha despatched out on January 26 saying “No LIES have been instructed on anybody.”
“Plaintiff is just looking for to require defendants to take away any movies and posts that include the defamatory Statements from their social media accounts and to enjoin defendants from republishing those self same statements,” the new submitting concludes.
