Diddy wants to dismiss some of the claims in one of his sexual assault cases … claiming he can’t be sued under laws that didn’t even exist at the time of the alleged incident.According to new docs, obtained by TMZ … Diddy’s lawyers are firing back at claims made by Joi Dickerson-Neal — a woman who filed a suit against him in November claiming he drugged and sexually assaulted her back in 1991.
Joi filed six causes of action against Diddy … and, now his team’s claiming she can’t sue him for several of those claims because the laws didn’t exist when she says he assaulted her.
For example, Dickerson-Neal’s suing Diddy under the New York Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Law … which Diddy’s lawyers note wasn’t in effect until 2007 — about 16 years after the incident took place.Diddy’s also contesting her claims under the New York State Revenge Porn Law, codified in 2019, the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law — passed in 2000 — and the 2016 NYC Revenge Porn Law.Basically, Diddy’s lawyers are calling for claims under these laws to be dismissed with prejudice — though, of course, they’re also maintaining their client didn’t commit the alleged acts at all, including the sexual assault she claims to have endured at his hands.
TMZ.com
Worth noting … the lawyers aren’t making the same argument against the first two counts — common law claims for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress that don’t rely on specific statutes — because the arguments about the timing of certain statutes being passed don’t apply to those claims … which are at the heart of her case.One more issue Diddy’s lawyers are raising … they say Joi can’t sue Bad Boy Records or Bad Boy Entertainment like she’s trying — ’cause those, too, didn’t exist yet either.
