Last Tuesday in Los Angeles, attorneys for the woman who sued Vin Diesel quietly set the stage for a legal sequel, filing a notice of appeal that asks a higher court to revisit two 2025 rulings that ended the case in the defendants’ favor. The lawsuit alleges the actor sexually assaulted a former assistant in an Atlanta hotel room in 2010 and that she was fired hours later. The original complaint was filed in December 2023, and the appeal now shifts the fight from the trial court to an appellate panel that will be asked to decide whether the earlier rulings were grounded in procedure rather than substance.
Judge’s Rulings And The Procedural Grounds
In 2025, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Daniel M. Crowley threw out multiple causes of action,…..