The The legal battle between Johnny Depp & Amber Heard is technically overAs the Appeal filed by HeardWe wait for the court action. It seems there will be interest in this matter all the while we wait for the court to act. Depp’s side has now also appealed the, much smaller judgmentFor the Pirates of the Caribbean actor. However, for now, the focus is on a college that is not directly associated with this case.
The City University of New York (CUNY), posted a profile of one of its graduates on its blog. Yarelyn Mena graduated from CUNY’s Hunter College in 2015 before going on to earn her law degree from Fordham University. She’s currently an associate at Brown Rudnick LLP, the firm that represented Johnny Depp in his defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard, which included Depp’s much talked about lawyer Camille Vasquez. Mena, who was 29 years old, was the youngest member in the legal team.
Although the post was intended to highlight the work and accomplishments of the young lawyer on the CUNYverse blog, there were many who disagreed with it. Tensions still run high in the aftermath. The verdict was overwhelmingly in Johnny Depp’s favorMany felt that Depp’s profile, which featured a lawyer who worked for him, essentially glorified a man that many still believe was guilty of domestic abuse. It was eventually removed due to the backlash against it. Taken down and replaced with the following…
We appreciate everyone who shared their concerns about an article in our newsletter featuring a recent CUNY graduate who worked on Johnny Depp’s legal team. We are sorry for the article’s publication. We have removed the article from our CUNYverse Blog. The article was not meant as an implicit or explicit endorsement of Mr. Depp or to challenge any Amber Heard allegations. We regret any inconvenience this article might have caused. Domestic violence is a serious problem in our society.
However, while the removal of the lawyer’s profile may have removed controversy from one corner of the internet, it has now sparked it in another. CUNY is again under fire, this time from critics of the profile’s removal. A number of people are critical of this decision, including a Professor on another CUNY campus.
To put it mildly, this is not a good look at CUNY.(The article, which was a memory hole, celebrated the legal acumen and hard work of Hunter grad 2015, the daughter two Dominican Republic immigrants who had been involved in the Depp case.)https://t.co/52f06E7Zem pic.twitter.com/zyvV9IzdenAugust 5, 2022
There’s clearly a clash here between those that don’t see a problem celebrating a woman, the daughter of two immigrants from the Dominican Republic, who reportedly did her job well, even if the client still has a cloud over him, and those who feel that because the client has such a cloud, those associated with him should not be celebrated. This clearly isn’t a question with an easy answer, as CUNY has recently discovered.