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A yearslong civil case against Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant will continue at least into fall this year as new attorneys for the teen punched by Morant during a pickup basketball game get up-to-speed on the case.
Monday was the first appearance for Stephen Leffler, the attorney that was just retained by the teen, Joshua Holloway, and he said he would need a few months to read up what had happened in the case up to being retained. He also said he was bringing on an additional attorney.
Leffler, who is also one of the attorneys currently representing former Memphis police officer Demetrius Haley in the Tyre Nichols’ federal criminal case, officially signed on to the civil suit against Morant Friday. He replaced Rebecca Adelman and Leslie Ballin. Adelman and Ballin asked to be removed from the case April 19, citing an “irreconcilable” conflict.
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Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Carol Chumney, who has presided over the case, set two dates in court Monday afternoon. The first of those dates was a status conference, where attorneys will brief her about the case’s latest update. That date was set for August this year.
Chumney also set a pretrial hearing, which will come before the second half of the immunity proceedings. Although wanting to have that pretrial hearing — where attorneys would argue any last-minute motions — in September, it was finally set for October after Leffler said he could not make it due to trial for the Tyre Nichols case.
After a hearing where Adelman and Ballin were allowed to withdraw from the case by Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Carol Chumney, Joshua Holloway’s mother said the case would not be settled and the family planned to bring it to trial
