Vin Diesel bought a courtroom to throw out 4 employment discrimination claims towards him on Tuesday, however nonetheless faces allegations of sexual battery and wrongful termination introduced by a former assistant.

The assistant, Asta Jonasson, sued Diesel in 2023, alleging that he had pinned her towards a wall in a resort suite and masturbated in entrance of her. The incident allegedly occurred in 2010, which might ordinarily put it past the statute of limitations.

However in 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Sexual Abuse and Cowl Up Accountability Act, which revived sure expired claims of sexual assault relationship again to 2009.

Nonetheless, as a way to deliver a lawsuit underneath the state Truthful Employment and Housing Act, a plaintiff should first file an administrative criticism with the state Civil Rights Division.

In a ruling on Tuesday, Choose Daniel M. Crowley held that the legislation extending the statute of limitations didn’t prolong the deadline to file an administrative criticism, which in 2010 was one yr. Due to this fact, he discovered that the 4 claims underneath FEHA had been barred by the statute of limitations.

“Plaintiff’s FEHA claims are time-barred as a result of she did not well timed exhaust her administrative treatments by submitting a CRD criticism inside one yr of the alleged hostile motion, a jurisdictional requirement for a FEHA lawsuit,” the choose wrote.

Jonasson additionally filed claims of retaliation, wrongful termination, sexual battery, negligent supervision and retention and infliction of emotional misery. None of these allegations carries a requirement to file an administrative criticism, and they also had been untouched by the choose’s order.

Diesel’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, adamantly denied the claims after they had been first filed.

“There may be clear proof which fully refutes these outlandish allegations,” he mentioned on the time.