# Jada Pinkett Smith and Bilal Salaam legal dispute > Live situation record from CLSTR: https://clstr.news/situations/jada-pinkett-smith-and-bilal-salaam-legal-dispute > Updated: 2026-10-04T14:04:54.000Z. Sources: 4. Developments: 2. A legal dispute is unfolding between Jada Pinkett Smith and Bilal Salaam, who filed a $3 million lawsuit in December 2025. Salaam alleges that Pinkett Smith threatened and intimidated him after he declined to assist with crisis management following the 2022 Oscars incident, causing him severe emotional trauma and forcing him to live abroad. In September 2026, Salaam filed new papers in the Van Nuys Superior Court requesting judicial intervention to compel Pinkett Smith to sit for a deposition, claiming his attempts to schedule the session have been ignored for two months. Pinkett Smith’s legal team has contested this, arguing the dispute involves the terms of a protective order and that the judge has already rejected Salaam’s proposed modifications regarding confidential materials. By October 2026, Pinkett Smith’s legal team requested a court order for a five to six-hour psychological examination of Salaam to verify the validity of his emotional distress claims. This follows a previous ruling in which a Los Angeles judge ordered Salaam to pay Pinkett Smith $32,836 in legal fees after certain claims were dismissed under California’s anti-SLAPP law. ## Timeline ### 2026-10-04: Jada Pinkett Smith seeks psychological exam for Bilal Salaam Jada Pinkett Smith has requested a court-ordered psychological exam for Bilal Salaam to challenge his $3 million emotional distress lawsuit against her. 3 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/jada-pinkett-smith-seeks-psychological-exam-for-bilal-salaam ### 2026-09-12: Jada Pinkett Smith faces renewed push for deposition in lawsuit Bilaal Salaam has asked a California judge to intervene in a lawsuit against Jada Pinkett Smith, seeking to compel her deposition amid disputes over protective orders and confidential information. 2 sources. https://clstr.news/cluster/jada-pinkett-smith-faces-renewed-push-for-deposition-in-lawsuit --- Cite as: Jada Pinkett Smith and Bilal Salaam legal dispute. CLSTR, https://clstr.news/situations/jada-pinkett-smith-and-bilal-salaam-legal-dispute