FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Dolphins cornerback Xavien Howard filed a motion to dismiss a complaint levied against him last month, calling the complaint "the epitome of a shakedown."
An unnamed woman filed a complaint in Broward County against Howard on October 26 alleging he knowingly and negligently gave her a sexually transmitted disease.
Through his attorney, Alan Mensa-Wilmot of Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., Howard alleges that the plaintiff, listed as Jane Doe, threatened him, trespassed on his property, stalked him and spread false information about him.
Howard's motion, filed two days after the plaintiff's complaint, also states that he "has his own causes of action that he intends to bring against" Doe for her alleged "harassing tactics, defamatory statements, and intentional and/or negligent infliction of emotion distress.