Garth Brooks is requesting that the sexual assault case be brought to federal court

Garth Brooks wants to take his complaint against “Jane Roe,” the woman who accused him of sexual assault and battery, to a higher court.

The 62-year-old country singer filed new documents, now obtained by PEOPLE, on Friday, November 1, to have her Roe lawsuit heard in federal court as to the damages she sought in her lawsuit against him , exceeds $75,000, which is a decrease under the federal court rules.

Legal expert Tre Lovell said Entertainment tonight that the “advantages” of taking his case to federal court include a “shorter trial date,” a “larger pool of jurors,” and the idea that judges in federal court are “more willing to dismiss a case.”

This comes a month after Brooks refiled his original complaint, naming Roe, who previously worked as a hairdresser and makeup artist for him and his wife, Trisha Yearwood. In court documents, he claimed his decision was due to her lawyers “exposing” his identity to the press.

In response to Brooks’ decision to name her, Roe’s attorneys Douglas H. Wigdor, Jeanne M. Christensen and Hayley Baker told PEOPLE in a statement, “Garth Brooks has just revealed his true self.”

“Without legal justification, Brooks outed her because he believes the laws don’t apply to him. “On behalf of our client, we will immediately seek maximum sentences against him,” they added.

In his complaint, the “Friends in Low Places” crooner claimed that he was the “victim of a raid” and that Roe had “hatched a malicious plan” to blackmail him into paying her “millions of dollars” after he “hidden her had rejected the application”. paid employment and medical benefits.”

Brooks also claimed that Roe “threatened” to “publicly disclose false allegations about him” that would “jeopardize” his business and reputation, referring to allegations they made in an Oct. 3 complaint had. In that complaint, she alleged that the country singer exposed his genitals to her, spoke openly with her about his sexual fantasies and sent her sexually explicit text messages in 2019.

He denied Roe’s allegations, claiming in a statement to PEOPLE that he was “harassed non-stop with threats, lies and tragic stories about what my future would look like if I didn’t write a multi-million dollar check.”

“I want to make music… I want to continue our good deeds in the future. It breaks my heart.” [that] These wonderful things are now in question. I trust the system, I am not afraid of the truth and I am not the man they made me out to be,” Brooks said in his statement.