Judge gives new Deshaun Watson plaintiff 24 hours to give name

Judge Rabeea Sultan Collier ruled that the plaintiff who filed a civil lawsuit against Deshaun Watson last week has 24 hours to amend her petition to include her name if she wants to go forward with the civil lawsuit.

The ruling was made in an emergency hearing held in the 113th District Court in Harris County (Texas). During the hearing, Watson's lawyer, Rusty Hardin, asked the court to order counsel to provide the name of the plaintiff and «sanctions for making us go through this.»

The lawsuit, filed under the pseudonym Jane Doe is the 26th known lawsuit filed against Watson accusing him of inappropriate sexual misconduct or sexual assault during massages. The previous lawsuits had been filed by attorney Tony Buzbee.

Hardin said during the hearing that his legal team red lined one of Buzbee's cases saying, «you see in that red line that they simply copied Mr. Buzbee's pleading almost in toto.

»And the relevance to that is that Mr. Buzbee's case is [one of the cases] in which the court ordered him to replead and give us the name," Hardin said.

«There is no question they would not know they had to tell us the name. And we spent 72 hours trying to get us to give them the name. And therefore, we would like to ask for the name and we would like sanctions for making us go through this.»

In April 2021, 22 women who had filed lawsuits against Watson amended their petitions to include their names after two judges ruled they must do so to continue their lawsuits. One of the lawsuits that had been filed against Watson at the time was dropped.

The lawyer representing the plaintiff, Michelle Kornblith, said she would provide the defendant with her client's name but didn't want to go public with her name.

«We actually have no