A Texas choose on Wednesday upheld a ruling ordering Dallas Cowboys group proprietor Jerry Jones to take a paternity check to find out whether or not he’s the organic father of a 27-year-old lady.
Dallas County Decide Sandra Jackson made the preliminary ruling on Feb. 19. Attorneys for Jones and Alexandra Davis, the lady suing the NFL govt, made their circumstances, in accordance with the Dallas Morning Information.
Lawyer Kris Hayes touted the ruling in an interview with the paper.
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Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones walks the sphere earlier than the sport in opposition to the New York Giants at AT&T Stadium on Nov. 12, 2023, in Arlington, Texas. (Sam Hodde/Getty Photos)
“Alex is able the place she actually not has to cover her fact or stay beneath the thumb of concern and possibly she’s going to lastly get some peace and we hope different households could have that very same profit from the choose following the legislation,” Hayes mentioned.
Jones’ attorneys argued within the listening to that the person who was married to Cynthia Davis on the time was the presumed father of the lady, in accordance with the Dallas Morning Information.
Jones has denied being the daddy of Davis.
Davis filed her preliminary lawsuit in opposition to Jones on March 3, 2022. She alleged that her mom, Cynthia Davis, had a relationship with Jones within the late ’90s wherein they conceived her. Davis sought a DNA check to show that Jones was her father after initially suing, and later dropping it, to have a choose declare she wasn’t certain by a monetary settlement between him and her mom, in accordance with the paper.
Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones walks the sphere earlier than the Dolphins recreation at Arduous Rock Stadium on Dec. 24, 2023, in Miami Gardens, Florida. (Megan Briggs/Getty Photos)
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A choose ordered Jones take a paternity check in December 2022 however his attorneys appealed.
Davis additionally refiled a defamation lawsuit in opposition to Jones this previous November, accusing him and two of his associates of concocting a plan to label her “an extortionist.”
She was in a position to refile the grievance based mostly on statements made in a March 2022 ESPN story, ABC Information reported final 12 months. The grievance mentioned Jones’ legal professional, Donald P. Jack, and Jim Wilkinson, a communications marketing consultant for the Jones household, falsely accused Davis of “being an extortionist and portrayed Plaintiff as making an attempt to ‘shakedown’ Defendant Jones.”
Jerry Jones speaks throughout a FIFA World Cup 2026 Match schedule announcement at AT&T Stadium on Feb. 4, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. (Omar Vega/Getty Photos)
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The case was initially dismissed as a result of the choose mentioned alleged defamatory statements about Davis in ESPN articles have been both true or “not defamatory.”
Fox Information’ Ryan Morik and The Related Press contributed to this report.
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