John Laurinaitis supports Vince McMahon motion in Janel Grant lawsuit

John Laurinaitis' legal team has released a statement in support of Vince McMahon's motion to compel arbitration in Janel Grant's lawsuit. 

McMahon's legal team filed a motion on April 23 requesting that the court recognize an arbitration clause in an NDA Grant signed and send the matter to an independent arbitrator rather than it going to litigation. This would mean the proceedings would take place behind closed doors.

Laurinaitis' lawyer, Edward M. Brennan, released the following statement on behalf of his client on Thursday:

John Laurinaitis has filed a Motion today fully joining in and adopting Vince McMahon’s motion to compel arbitration. Mr. Laurinaitis corroborates Mr. McMahon in publicly declaring that Ms. Grant’s allegations of sexual abuse and coercion in her Complaint are completely unfounded. My client will fight these false allegations together with Mr. McMahon in the proper forum, arbitration.

McMahon's lawyer, Jessica Taub Rosenberg, Partner at Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, released the following statement on Thursday in reaction to the motion filed by Laurinaitis' legal team:

In January 2024, Ms. Grant, a 43-year-old with a law degree, who was in love with Mr. McMahon and devastated by their break-up, filed an outrageous and false lawsuit to ruin Mr. McMahon’s career and reputation. Now, her false allegations are slowly unraveling. Today, Mr. Laurinaitis’ attorney confirmed his client will corroborate Mr. McMahon’s account and expose the lies within the Complaint. Despite their intense efforts, Ms. Grant’s attorneys won’t be able to suppress the truth from coming out.

Representatives of Laurinaitis had previously stated that their client was a victim of McMahon in this case. 

"Like the Plaintiff, Mr. Laurinaitis is a victim in this case, not a predator. The truth will come out," Brennan said in a statement on February 1.  

However, Brennan's statement today suggests his client and McMahon's legal team will work together in their defense. 

"John Laurinaitis filed a motion basically flipping and joining with Vince McMahon in stating Janel Grant's stories weren't true," our own Dave Meltzer commented on the situation. 

A copy of today's motion to compel arbitration from Laurinaitis' legal team is below:

Defendant John Laurinaitis, by and through his undersigned attorneys, respectfully moves this Court for an order compelling arbitration of this matter pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. §§ 3, 4, for the reasons set forth more fully in Defendant Vincent K. McMahon’s Motion to Compel Arbitration (Doc. 30) and Defendant McMahon’s Memorandum of Law in Support of Motion to Compel Arbitration (Doc. 30-1) which legal arguments advanced therein are adopted in full and joined by Defendant Laurinaitis as though set forth herein. Defendant Laurinaitis further moves the Court for such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper and seeks leave to advance additional and or other responses, defenses, counter-claims and or affirmative defenses to Plaintiff’s Complaint in the event the Motion to Compel Arbitration is denied.