Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts recommended Wednesday that Kathryn Mayorga's lawsuit against Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo should be dismissed, per Ken Ritter of the Associated Press, saying her attorney Leslie Mark Stovall relied on documents that were leaked or stolen.
Mayorga said Ronaldo raped her in 2009 in Las Vegas.
"Dismissing Mayorga's case for the inappropriate conduct of her attorney is a harsh result," Albregts wrote in a recommendation to U.S. District Judge Jennifer Dorsey. "But it is, unfortunately, the only appropriate sanction to ensure the integrity of the judicial process."
In her lawsuit, Mayorga alleged that Ronaldo and his legal team pressured her to sign a nondisclosure agreement and take a $375,000 hush settlement.