Ellen DeGeneres seems to be pushing again laborious in opposition to something that would disrupt her new life within the U.Okay.

The previous “Ellen DeGeneres Present” host, who relocated abroad in 2024 together with her spouse, Portia de Rossi, is as soon as once more coping with her negligence lawsuit. 

The case, initially filed in September 2025, just lately took a brand new flip after the plaintiff requested a jury trial. In response, DeGeneres is difficult the validity of how the authorized papers had been served.

In a court docket submitting dated January 21 on the Superior Court docket of California, County of Los Angeles, DeGeneres’ authorized crew requested the court docket to invalidate the service of summons within the case.

In accordance with the submitting, her attorneys moved to strike the service after a number of makes an attempt had been allegedly made to ship authorized paperwork to DeGeneres on January 5, 6, and seven.

The protection argued that the service was improper as a result of the paperwork had been delivered to her enterprise administration agency, NKSFB, LLC, quite than her private residence, PEOPLE Journal studies.

The movement additional acknowledged that on December 23, 2025, paperwork was left on the reception desk of a division of NKSFB, Neuman + Associates. Nevertheless, the agency’s companion and founder, Harley Neuman, clarified in a sworn declaration that the workplace is neither DeGeneres’ common residence nor her common workplace.

Neuman added that DeGeneres was not current on the day the paperwork had been dropped off and that nobody on the agency was knowledgeable of the contents. He additionally acknowledged there was no signed acknowledgment confirming receipt.

“There was no purpose to consider Ms. DeGeneres could be there in any respect, and particularly not on these two random days in January,” the declaration learn. 

DeGeneres’ newest transfer comes weeks after the plaintiff had requested a jury trial that may most definitely contain the comic’s presence in America, regardless of her residing overseas. 

Per The Blast, the plaintiff’s December 15 request additionally indicated that mediation came about on December 9. Nevertheless, DeGeneres had but to be formally served, as a consequence of her residing abroad.

Court docket officers famous that service will probably be carried out underneath the Hague Conference at her U.Okay. handle.

Whereas the case unfolds, the incident came about again in October 2023 on a busy Santa Barbara highway.

As The Blast beforehand reported, the driving force, who is claimed to have been driving a Tesla, accused the comic of failing to obey a cease signal and collided together with her.

In accordance with the driving force, she approached an intersection marked with a number of visitors indicators and got here to an entire cease, even taking further care to test for oncoming automobiles.

Nevertheless, as she started to proceed, DeGeneres’ car allegedly struck hers head-on, inflicting accidents. The plaintiff then sued the previous speak present host for negligence, claiming DeGeneres disregarded her personal cease signal.

Amid her ongoing authorized troubles, DeGeneres additionally weighed in on current occasions in Minneapolis.

Following the deadly taking pictures of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this month, the previous present host shared her response on Instagram.

“I am so unhappy, and so offended, and so frightened,” she wrote on her Instagram, earlier than reposting a press release from Good’s spouse, Becca Good, in response to The Blast.

Whereas her feedback sparked blended reactions on-line from critics who thought she was being hypocritical, given she didn’t react to Charlie Kirk’s demise, DeGeneres didn’t again down.