{"id":7546,"date":"2025-08-28T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-dismisses-sexual-battery-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:27:38","slug":"judge-dismisses-sexual-battery-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-dismisses-sexual-battery-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Dismisses Sexual Battery Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tS<\/span>ean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs keeps on winning in court.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo months after he was mostly cleared at his blockbuster criminal trial, the hip-hop mogul won a ruling Tuesday dismissing a civil lawsuit accusing him of drugging and sexually battering a 23-year-old man at an afterparty in 2015.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Manhattan judge said the case, lodged in February, was filed well after the statute of limitations had expired in either state that might apply: \u201cBecause the action is untimely under both New York and California law, \u2026 it must be dismissed as to all defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTony Buzbee<\/strong>, the lawyer who represents the unnamed John Doe plaintiff, told Billboard<\/em> on Wednesday that the ruling would not end the case: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t call this a victory for Mr. Combs, at all,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cWe won\u2019t allow Mr. Combs to escape a trial on the merits due to a technicality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe ruling is the second big legal win for Diddy in the wake of his criminal case verdict. Earlier this month, a federal judge dismissed a $60 million lawsuit filed by Making the Band 2<\/em> contestant Sara Rivers \u2013 a ruling that similarly said that case was filed far too late.<\/p>\n

\n\tThose civil cases were just two of dozens filed against Combs over the past two years alongside his blockbuster federal criminal case. Even after beating two of them, many others remain pending before other judges.<\/p>\n

\n\tCombs was largely acquitted last month in the criminal case, which accused him of forcing girlfriends to partake in drug-fueled sex marathons with prostitutes called \u201cfreak-offs.\u201d Jurors found him not guilty on racketeering (RICO) and sex-trafficking charges, though they did convict him on two counts of interstate prostitution. He\u2019s currently in jail, awaiting sentencing in October that could see him sent to prison for several years.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe case dismissed on Tuesday accused Combs of drugging and assaulting John Doe \u2013 \u201ca music performer pursuing a career as a rapper and sing\u201d \u2013 at a 2015 afterparty at Los Angeles\u2019 QC\u2019s 20\/20 club. The victim said he drifted \u201cin and out of consciousness\u201d after drinking a spiked drink, then awoke to find Combs groping him and believed the star \u201chad been performing oral sex on him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut in the ruling dismissing the case, the judge said Doe had only five years to file his case. Though a law was passed in 2019 that extended the statute of limitations to 20 years, the judge said that law did not apply retroactively.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhile Plaintiff contends that [the newer law] applies and affords him a 20-year period to file this action, this argument fails,\u201d the judge wrote. \u201cPlaintiff\u2019s claim, filed in 2025, remains untimely under New York law.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe accuser cited California state law as an alternative, arguing the state\u2019s so-called lookback window for sexual assault claims allowed him to sue. But the judge rejected that argument too: \u201cThe court concludes that the claim is untimely under California law as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his statement to Billboard<\/em> on Wednesday, Buzbee said the ruling was \u201cjust another step in the process\u201d and vowed to bring continue to litigate the claims against Combs in a different venue.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe retroactive ability of the NY statute at issue was an open question. The court in New York has answered that question,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cAs with many cases like this one, we will refile it in California where the alleged assault occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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