L.A. Reid is asking a NYC decide to dismiss the assorted expenses in Drew Dixon’s sexual assault case in opposition to him.
Dixon initially filed expenses in opposition to L.A. Reid in November 2023, together with sexual battery (Rely I), false imprisonment (Rely II), intentional infliction of emotional misery (Rely III), and gender-motivated violence (Rely IV).
In accordance with AllHipHop, his attorneys, Bobbi C. Sternheim and Shawn Holley, are urging the courtroom to dismiss Counts II and III in Dixon’s criticism. In addition they request the elimination of sure statutory references in Rely I whereas looking for extra aid deemed “simply and correct.”
Dixon is alleging “ongoing sexual harassment and profession sabotage” in two separate incidents that occurred in January 2001 and once more later that very same yr.
By invoking the New York Grownup Survivors Act (ASA) and the New York Metropolis Gender Motivated Violence Act (GMVA), she resurrects beforehand time-barred allegations, thereby prolonging the statute of limitations for civil actions associated to particular sexual offenses.
At the moment, Dixon’s sexual abuse allegations align with relevant legal guidelines, however Reid’s authorized staff contends that she is leveraging these legal guidelines to “springboard claims of profession frustration and disappointment for which there aren’t any well timed or cognizable causes of motion.”
They consider she’s taking “inappropriate benefit of specifically enacted legal guidelines as ‘catch-all’ alternate options for causes of motion which can’t stand on their very own and are too late to say.”
In accordance with stories, the primary alleged misconduct transpired on a flight departing from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, whereas the second incident occurred in a chauffeur-driven automobile in New York Metropolis on the way in which to Dixon’s dwelling.
Reid’s attorneys argue Dixon was not pressured or deceived into boarding the airplane or accepting a trip. They emphasize that “she was not compelled to go alongside for both trip in opposition to her will.”
Attributable to unclear venue particulars concerning the alleged conduct within the Southern or Jap District of New York, they search dismissal of Rely II.
Moreover, Reid’s attorneys search to dismiss the declare of intentional infliction of emotional misery, contending, “The allegations within the criticism, although undoubtedly unprofessional, distasteful, and improper, don’t rise to the extent of maximum and outrageous habits required for an IIED declare in New York.”
In accordance with the lawsuit, Dixon additionally alleges two separate events of “fondling… beneath… garments” and “digital penetration of v*gina with out consent.”
Reid’s attorneys assert that Dixon hasn’t established a reason for motion for the ten PL sections in Rely I, noting they “include parts not alleged in or supported by the criticism and are usually not relevant to a reliable grownup plaintiff.”
Dixon asserts that in 2001, whereas at Arista, L.A. Reid assaulted her twice. She can also be accusing the manager of hindering her profession following the assaults.
