Exorcist star Linda Blair’s nonprofit could be hit with sanctions after she failed to appear for a court hearing months after being dropped by her lawyer, In Touch can exclusively report.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, on January 9, a hearing was held in Los Angeles Superior Court in the lawsuit brought by Stephanie Najar and Edgar Najar against Linda’s nonprofit Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation.

Linda’s foundation works to rehabilitate abused animal. The court set a hearing for January 21 to determine whether sanctions against Linda’s nonprofit are appropriate due to Linda nor any other rep making an appearance at the hearing or obtaining a new lawyer.

As In Touch first reported, back in July 2024, Linda nonprofit’s lawyers, Lindsay Weiss and Robert L. Davis from the firm Manning Gross & Massenburg [MG + M], asked to be relived as the nonprofit’s counsel. In their motion to withdraw from the case, Robert claimed there has been a “breakdown of the working relationship.”

He explained, “My communications with the Linda Blair/WorldHeart Foundation (“Foundation”) have been almost exclusively with Linda Blair, who is listed on the California Secretary of State’s website as the Foundation’s Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officer, and in some instances with her personal assistant.”

The lawyer continued, “The breakdown in the relationship between myself and MG+M, on the one hand, and [Linda] on the other has resulted in MG+M NOT receiving information, documentation, and authority to take certain actions necessary to defend the case against the Foundation, such that that MG+M cannot carry out its representation of the Foundation effectively.”

He added, “The breakdown is such that Ms. Blair has ceased communicating with me. The last communication I received from her, via email, was on February 26, 2024. Since then, she has not responded to my communications to her, the dates of which are summarized below.” Linda’s nonprofit has not informed the court of a new lawyer since the old firm withdrew.

As In Touch first reported, in their lawsuit, Stephanie and Edgar, who live near Linda’s dog recuse in Acton, California, accused two pit bulls from the rescue of coming onto their property and injuring their miniature horse.

The mini horse suffered severe injuries, according to the lawsuit. Stephanie and Edgar blamed Linda’s nonprofit for the dogs making their way onto the property and mauling the face of their miniature horse. “Prior to November 11, 2022, the defendants were aware that they had dangerous animals on their property, given that there were at least two previous occasions where defendant’s dogs came on to plaintiff’s property and attacked plaintiff’s livestock.”

On November 11, Mr. Najar was forced to shoot one of the defendant’s dogs in order to stop the attack.”

The duo sued seeking unspecified damages.

Linda’s nonprofit denied all allegations of wrongdoing. A lawyer for the nonprofit argued, “this answering Defendant contends that if Plaintiffs suffered any damage or damages as alleged in the complaint, such damage or damages were proximately caused and contributed to by Plaintiffs.”

Further, the lawyer said, “if Plaintiffs were damaged in any manner whatsoever, that said damage, if any, was a direct and proximate result of the intervening and superseding actions on the part of other parties, and not this answering Defendant.”

The case is ongoing.