Cowboys owner Jerry Jones demands that paternity lawsuit be thrown out!
Will he get his wish?
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has found himself in the middle of a sticky situation, and it has nothing to do with his product on the field.
A 25 year old woman named Alexandra Davis has sued Jones, alleging that he is her biological father and that he paid her mother Cynthia Davisa considerable sum to keep the information confidential following their relationship in the mid-1990's, and that she's been bound to secrecy since the young age of 1 year old.
Jones and his lawyers have issued a plea document requesting the lawsuit be dismissed.
Lawyers Levi G. McCathern and Charles L. Babcock argued that Davis' claims are "submersed in hypothetical and contingent scenarios that are not justiciable because they have not occurred."
"This Court cannot assert jurisdiction over unripe claims and [Davis] cannot create it via her suit for declaratory relief," Jones' lawyers wrote in the filing. "Accordingly, this Court should dismiss [Davis'] claims with prejudice."
They also stated that Davis sent Jones a draft of her lawsuit prior to it being filed and "asked whether he would like to 'make a deal' to 'assure that he would not be publicly or privately identified and/or declared as [Davis'] father,'" the filing said.
Additionally, they said "potential source(s) of those attempted extortions" will be "the subject of other litigation which has been filed or will be instituted shortly."
An excerpt from the Davis lawsuit requested formal recognition as Jones' daughter:
"It is hard to imagine what could be less in the best interest of a child than to enforce agreements that leave a child without a father and which prevent or legally punish a child from even stating who her father is," the lawsuit said.
