{"id":8965,"date":"2025-12-06T05:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cardi-b-judge-denies-accuser-new-trial-in-assault-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:03:17","slug":"cardi-b-judge-denies-accuser-new-trial-in-assault-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/cardi-b-judge-denies-accuser-new-trial-in-assault-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Judge Denies Accuser New Trial in Assault\u00a0Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n

\n\tA Los Angeles judge on Friday (Dec. 5) sided with Cardi B and denied a new trial to Emani Ellis, the security guard who unsuccessfully sued the superstar for assault over a 2018 altercation at a doctor\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter jurors easily rejected the lawsuit in September, Ellis asked for a new trial, including by arguing that Cardi \u201cintimidated\u201d jurors by throwing a pen at a reporter in a media scrum. Cardi\u2019s lawyers called that request \u201cbaseless\u201d and \u201cabsurd\u201d and said it should be \u201crejected out of hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAt a court hearing on Friday, Judge Ian C. Fusselman largely agreed, rejecting the pen-toss argument and finalizing a tentative ruling that denied Ellis a new trial.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEven if plaintiff had provided sufficient evidence of these asserted facts, the court finds unpersuasive the speculation that defendant\u2019s purported action of throwing a pen could have \u2018intimidated\u2019 the jurors into finding against Plaintiff given the nature of Plaintiff\u2019s claims,\u201d the judge wrote in that ruling.<\/p>\n

\n\tAttorneys for Ellis also claimed the facts of the case simply did not align with the jury\u2019s verdict, but the judge was unmoved: \u201cThe Court finds that sufficient credible evidence supported the jury\u2019s verdict.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEllis sued Cardi in 2020, claiming the star had assaulted her when she worked as a security guard at a Beverly Hills gynecologist\u2019s office in 2018, when Cardi was four months pregnant with her first child. Ellis said the star cursed and spat at her and scratched her cheek with a sharp acrylic nail, requiring plastic surgery to repair the wound.<\/p>\n

\n

\n

\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n

\n
\n
\n
\n
\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Kanye<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tAt an August trial, Cardi said she never touched Ellis. During two days on the witness stand, the rapper testified that she and Ellis had a verbal-only altercation after she realized that the guard was recording her \u2014 a major concern, Cardi said, because she was still concealing her pregnancy from the public.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper said it was Ellis who got aggressive during the encounter, backing her into a corner and refusing to leave her alone. Cardi also said her nails weren\u2019t capable of cutting anyone, and the jury saw a photo of her at the NBA All-Star Game the week of this incident, sporting square nails that she described as less than an inch long.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter less than an hour of deliberations, the jury unanimously found that Ellis did not prove her legal claims of assault, battery, infliction of emotional distress and negligence. And on the courthouse steps a short while later, Cardi warned against future \u201cfrivolous\u201d lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI work hard for my money for my kids and for people I take care of, so don\u2019t you ever think that you gonna sue me, and I\u2019m just gonna settle and just give you my money,\u201d the star said at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s not gonna happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Friday\u2019s hearing, one big issue remains unresolved. Cardi\u2019s lawyers have asked the judge to punish Rosen Janfaza<\/strong>, Ellis\u2019 attorney, for alleged misconduct during the trial, including by asking Cardi on the witness stand if she had any gang affiliations. Judge Fusselman did not decide that issue on Friday, but could do so as soon as next week.<\/p>\n


\"Billboard
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Los Angeles judge on Friday (Dec. 5) sided with Cardi B and denied a new trial to Emani Ellis, the security guard who unsuccessfully sued the superstar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[956,7118,2367,1242,423,342],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-accuser","tag-assaultlawsuit","tag-cardi","tag-denies","tag-judge","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}