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LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant’s widow won’t person to acquisition psychiatric testing for her suit implicit graphic photos of the 2020 chopper clang that killed the hoops star, her 13-year-old girl and others, a national justice ruled Monday.
Los Angeles County sought to compel psychiatric evaluations for Vanessa Bryant and others to find if they genuinely suffered affectional distress implicit photos of the clang country and bodies that her suit said were taken and shared by region sheriff’s deputies and firefighters.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles F. Eick said that the county’s question to compel an valuation was untimely. Bryant’s invasion-of-privacy suit is scheduled to statesman successful February.
Kobe Bryant, girl Gianna and 7 others were killed Jan. 26, 2020, erstwhile the chopper they were aboard, connected their mode to a girls hoops tournament, crashed successful the hills westbound of Los Angeles amid foggy weather. Federal information officials blamed aviator mistake for the wreck.
Bryant’s suit contends archetypal responders, including firefighters and sheriff’s deputies, shared photographs of Kobe Bryant’s assemblage with a bartender and passed astir “gratuitous photos of the dormant children, parents and coaches.”
Bryant, successful a deposition, had said that “for the remainder of my beingness I’m going to person to fearfulness that these photographs of my hubby and kid volition beryllium leaked.”
The justice past week said the region sheriff and occurrence main indispensable springiness depositions successful the case.
Attorneys for the region had argued that Bryant had ne'er seen the photographs and they weren’t shared publically and wanted to find whether she genuinely had suffered affectional distress.
They had sought to necessitate Bryant and different household members of the radical who were killed successful the crash, including children, to acquisition psychiatric evaluations arsenic autarkic aesculapian examinations.
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