| As Sean Combs in MDC Is
Sued for Sexual Assault of Joseph
Rose Jurisdiction Questioned
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
June 23– With Sean Combs in
jail in MDC-Brooklyn, on
October 20 at least five more
civil cases against him were
filed in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York. Inner
City Press is covering the
cases.
One of them
is by a John Doe who states
that at a 2022 award show
after party in LA, he was
sexually assaulted by Combs
"and several others, including
as of yet unnamed Celebrity
A." Complaint on Patreon here.
The case was
assigned to Judge Jesse M.
Furman - who like some but not
all SDNY Judge getting these
cases has said that a
justification for pseudonymous
status must be filed.
Docketed on
January 7, Judge Furman
ordered proof of service, and
that "If unaware of the
identity of counsel for
Defendant, counsel receiving
this order must forthwith send
a copy of this Order to that
party personally." MDC...
Order on Patreon here
But on June 23,
Combs' continued residence in
MDC Brooklyn as deemed not
necessarily enough as Judge
Furman ordered responses,
noting that "Plaintiff merely
alleges his and Defendant Sean
Combs’s states of residence,
not their states of
citizenship. Id. ¶¶ 32, 23
(alleging that Plaintiff
resides in California); id. ¶
24 (alleging that Combs
“resides in New York City” and
“is otherwise currently
incarcerated in the
Metropolitan Detention Center
in Brooklyn”). But for the
purpose of diversity
jurisdiction, “a statement of
the parties’ residence is
insufficient to establish
their citizenship." Full order
and deadlines on Patreon here
This case
is now Rose v. Combs, et al.,
1:24-cv-7974 (Furman)
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