February 24, 2025
He’s not allowed to attempt any case inside the 5 boroughs of New York in addition to Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan counties
Legal professional Tony Buzbee, who has filed a number of lawsuits in opposition to music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, has been denied the power to observe legislation within the Southern District of New York.
In line with Advanced, the lawyer, who needed to dismiss a lawsuit filed in opposition to Diddy and recording artist Jay-Z lately, shouldn’t be allowed to attempt any case inside the 5 boroughs of New York in addition to Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Orange, Dutchess, and Sullivan counties. This isn’t excellent news for the lawyer, who has filed a number of lawsuits in opposition to Diddy prior to now yr.
Court docket reporter Meghann Cuniff posted the ruling on her social media account stating that the ruling got here from the Committee on Grievances for the Southern District of New York. That committee is liable for investigating complaints of lawyer misconduct.
His lawsuit in opposition to Jay-Z is dismissed and never coming again, and now Tony Buzbee is attempting to make sure he can hold litigating his different lawsuits in opposition to Diddy as a result of his admission utility within the Southern District of New York was denied. pic.twitter.com/NuKOU7R38W
— Meghann Cuniff (@meghanncuniff) February 22, 2025
The committee stated that Buzbee didn’t ask permission to observe within the district earlier than he submitted for admission on Jan. 29, 2025. He only recently carried out that activity as a result of his negligence was identified within the lawsuit he filed that accused the 2 businessmen of sexually assaulting a then-13-year-old lady in New York Metropolis in 2000.
With the current ruling, he must embody the denial letter every time he desires to pursue a case inside the Southern District of New York.
Brooklyn rapper Jay-Z is now within the clear after Buzbee dismissed the lawsuit in opposition to the “Exhausting Knock Life” lyricist, however the lawyer has about 12 different fits in opposition to Diddy that could be in jeopardy because of this current ruling in opposition to Buzbee.
CNN reported that attorneys for Diddy say that Doe dropping her lawsuit signifies that the opposite quite a few allegations in opposition to Combs have been additionally false.
“That is one other affirmation that these lawsuits are constructed on falsehoods, not details…[in] case after case filed by people hiding behind anonymity.”
Diddy has been in custody since September 2024 on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York, as he awaits an upcoming federal trial on prices together with racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.
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