Diddy desires to dismiss a number of the claims in one in all his sexual assault instances … claiming he cannot be sued underneath legal guidelines that didn’t even exist on the time of the alleged incident.
In line with new docs, obtained by TMZ … Diddy’s attorneys are firing again at claims made by Joi Dickerson-Neal — a lady who filed a suit against him in November claiming he drugged and sexually assaulted her again in 1991.
Joi filed six causes of motion in opposition to Diddy … and, now his group’s claiming she will’t sue him for a number of of these claims as a result of the legal guidelines did not exist when she says he assaulted her.
For instance, Dickerson-Neal’s suing Diddy underneath the New York Providers for Victims of Human Trafficking Legislation … which Diddy’s attorneys be aware wasn’t in impact till 2007 — about 16 years after the incident came about.
Diddy’s additionally contesting her claims underneath the New York State Revenge Porn Legislation, codified in 2019, the New York Metropolis Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Legislation — handed in 2000 — and the 2016 NYC Revenge Porn Legislation.
Mainly, Diddy’s attorneys are calling for claims underneath these legal guidelines to be dismissed with prejudice — although, after all, they’re additionally sustaining their shopper didn’t commit the alleged acts in any respect, together with the sexual assault she claims to have endured at his fingers.
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Value noting … the attorneys aren’t making the identical argument in opposition to the primary two counts — widespread regulation claims for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery that don’t depend on particular statutes — as a result of the arguments in regards to the timing of sure statutes being handed don’t apply to these claims … that are on the coronary heart of her case.
Yet one more concern Diddy’s attorneys are elevating … they are saying Joi cannot sue Unhealthy Boy Information or Unhealthy Boy Leisure like she’s attempting — ‘trigger these, too, did not exist but both.
