LINCOLN — State Sen. Julie Slama’s lawyers made clear in a new filing Monday that her counter-lawsuit alleging sexual battery by Charles Herbster will continue after Herbster’s loss last week in the GOP primary race for governor.

Slama’s lawyers asked that Herbster’s defamation lawsuit against her be thrown out as being “frivolous” and in “bad faith.” They added details to Slama’s counter-suit, including a new claim alleging that Herbster’s political defense cast Slama in a false light.

The new filing said: “Herbster and his counsel know, or should know, that Senator Slama’s statements in question are true or substantially true.”

Slama, the filing said, is still coping with the mental and emotional toll of being groped and with how Herbster responded to her allegation in April. The filing said she is dealing with anxiety, depression, and feared loss of reputation.

Slama’s new filing provides the most detailed account yet of what she said Herbster did to her during the Elephant Remembers fundraising dinner in Omaha in 2019. It said Slama, then 22, was walking to her table at the dinner.

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