Dallas Judge Sends Jerry Jones Sexual Assault Lawsuit to July 2026 Trial

A Dallas County judge denied Jerry Jones’s motion for summary judgment, allowing a civil sexual-assault lawsuit stemming from an alleged 2018 incident at AT&T Stadium to proceed to jury trial. The suit was filed in 2020, dismissed in 2022, later reinstated on appeal, and is currently scheduled for trial on July 20, 2026. Jones’s lawyers argued the evidence is legally insufficient, pointing to contemporaneous photos and metadata showing the plaintiff and her grandson smiling minutes apart and to affidavits from security and former Cowboys figures who said they observed no inappropriate conduct. The plaintiff’s attorneys countered that credibility disputes and eyewitness accounts — including the plaintiff’s grandson and reports of a sudden commotion as Jones was hurried from the room — make summary judgment inappropriate and require a jury to weigh the conflicting testimony. Jones denies the allegations, and while the ruling moves the case forward after years of delays, further filings or settlement remain possible before the scheduled trial.