Larry Klayman accused Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy of being “too important” to answer questions under oath, as the lawyer secured a significant legal victory in his antitrust case against the PGA Tour.
Klayman, who represented Patrick Reed in his defamation case against members of the golf media, is also involved in a lawsuit against the PGA Tour.
The Klayman v. PGA Tour et al’ was filed in the 15th Judicial Circuit of Palm Beach County last July.
The lawyer accused the Tour, the Europe-based DP World Tour and other entities of restricting competition for the rival. LIV Golf League.
“Using their superior market power, as set forth in the class action complaint, the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour, under the ‘direction’ of Jay Monahan and Keith Pelley respectively, have decided to destroy the LIV Golf Tour,” Klayman said previously.
As part of the case, Klayman wishes to request Woods47, and McIlroy, 34, questions during deposition.
In January, Hall of Famer Woods was accused of deliberately avoiding a subpoena in this case.
Katelyn Miller, a civil process server, previously said she attempted to serve legal documents on the golfer five times at his Florida mansion.
“In my experience as a process administrator, Mr. Woods appears to be intentionally evading service,” she said.
McIlroy received his subpoena on Christmas Eve while he was at home with his wife. Erica Stoll and her daughter Poppy.
The Northern Irishman later explained that this was the reason he ignored the aforementioned Reed on the driving range at the Dubai Desert Classic.
Reed responded by throwing a LIV branded t-shirt in the Ulsterman’s direction as the story was blown out of proportion.
McIlroy later said he didn’t know “what world” Reed lived in, explaining that he thought he did. good reason to ignore the American.
On November 3, the judge overseeing the antitrust case rejected a second attempt by the defendants to have the case dismissed.
PGA Tour veteran Davis Love III is also involved in the litigation.
Klayman described the three golfers as trying to “skate” from the discovery, adding: “Claiming they were too important and famous, among other frivolous arguments, to be impeached.” »
In a statement, Klayman said: “I am pleased that Judge Delgado has once again denied the PGA Tour and its commissioner Jay Monahan’s second frivolous motion to dismiss and that the claims for damages will remain in the case , so that any discovery can now move forward.”
He added:
The documents in this case had already been made public in error. They were returned under seal.
But the explosive documents appeared to show how the PGA Tour was seeking to strengthen its ties with the DP World Tour as it tried to combat LIV.
The documents appeared to indicate that the Tour viewed the European tourism group as an “underinvested and struggling asset.”
Despite this discovery, the Tour still wanted to improve its relations in order to strengthen its position against the rival league supported by Saudi Arabia.
Other notable talking points included scripted remarks said the aforementioned Woods during a town hall meeting with PGA Tour players.
Woods was reportedly told to tell the players to do as he did and to tell the Saudis to “go away and mean it.”
The 47-year-old then approached X to say he had “never seen” the documents.
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