A Florida jury delivered a $US50 million ($77m) verdict to Jack Nicklaus in his defamation suit against Nicklaus Companies, the enterprise now controlled by billionaire banker Howard Milstein.
In a notice filed in Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal to drop the brief, Erica Herman said she “was never a victim of sexual harassment or sexual abuse at the hands of Tiger Woods or any of his agents, and it is her position that she never asserted a claim for such”.
A request has been filed by PGA Tour attorneys seeking a new trial date in its battle with LIV Golf, along with an extension to the document discovery process.
The request was filed in the Federal District Court in San Jose, California, where LIV Golf initially filed its antitrust lawsuit against the tour last August.
The patent-infringement lawsuits and countersuits filed by PXG and TaylorMade have ended in a cross-licensing agreement announced in overnight press releases.