Louis Mydlach, seated center, fields questions Wednesday at a news conference he called to request a personal meeting with entertainer Roy Horn. Also seated are his father, James Mydlach, left, and Denver-based attorney Alan Simon, right, a legal adviser to the Mydlachs. Standing behind Mydlach are Gary Bridges, left, who is a business associate of Jim Mydlach, and an unidentified security guard. Photo by K.M. Cannon.

A former personal attendant to Roy Horn requested on Wednesday a face-to-face meeting with the injured entertainer on the same day attorneys moved to dismiss the man's wrongful-discharge lawsuit against Siegfried Fischbacher.

Louis Mydlach, 34, filed the lawsuit Oct. 11 seeking damages for infliction of emotional distress, alleging Fischbacher behaved "like a tyrant" around his stage partner and impeded Horn's recovery from a tiger bite and subsequent stroke in 2003.

Mydlach went to work for Horn through the Mydlach family's security agency but says he took on the role of Horn's personal attendant. He has been denied access to the entertainer since he left his job last winter.

On Wednesday, Mydlach held a news conference to repeat his concern for "Mr. Roy's health and well-being" and requested that Fischbacher "permit me to meet with Mr. Roy, so I can talk to him and be sure that his treatment is progressing properly."

Horn "told me that he wanted to run with his tigers again and I promised that I would help him get better so he could do so," Mydlach read in a statement to reporters. "If he doesn't want me to keep my word, I will respect that. But I would like him to tell me personally."

Mydlach added, "I believe that he needs help and does not have time for the wheels of justice to turn."

Horn's publicist, Dave Kirvin, said the entertainer is refraining from comment because of the litigation. However, a recent report by The Associated Press stated that Horn dismissed Mydlach's claims as baseless, calling the lawsuit "disgusting."

Earlier Wednesday, Fischbacher's attorney, John Moran Jr., filed a motion to dismiss Mydlach's lawsuit. The motion stated that during the time Mydlach was part of Horn's security force, he was "argumentative, frequently late" and more than once suspended for "poor performance."

In January, Siegfried & Roy Productions fired Mydlach's security firm because of "unsatisfactory performance ... in particular the continuing unprofessional and increasingly disturbing behavior" of Mydlach.

The motion contends the lawsuit should be dismissed because Mydlach doesn't provide facts to substantiate emotional distress and that there is no direct employer-employee relationship to Fischbacher because Mydlach worked for the security service owned by his father, James Mydlach, and that firm was hired as an independent contractor.

"I was not a disgruntled employee," Louis Mydlach said Wednesday, adding he wasn't fired. He said he has not been swayed by Horn's reported reaction to the lawsuit. The partially paralyzed entertainer's mental faculties are sound, but he is "very, very controlled" and "very scared," Mydlach said.

The motion is set to be heard in District Court on Dec. 15.