According to Variety, a Los Angeles court rejected four of the job discrimination charges against Vin Diesel on Tuesday, removing him from the case.
Still pending in court, though, are grave accusations of violence and unlawful termination made by Asta Jonasson, his former assistant.
She alleges that at a hotel suite, the actor trapped her against a wall and did something indecent in front of her. Such claims would often be regarded as being over the legal time limit and hence too old to pursue.
However, the Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, a new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2023, permitted the revival of some claims that had previously lapsed if they were from 2009.
Judge Daniel M. Crowley decided that four of Jonasson’s allegations could not proceed notwithstanding that modification.
The rationale is that plaintiffs are required to file a complaint with the state’s Civil Rights Department prior to bringing a case under California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). The deadline for doing so was one year prior to the claimed occurrence.
Because the plaintiff did not timely exhaust her administrative remedies by submitting a CRD complaint within a year of the claimed adverse action—a jurisdictional prerequisite for a FEHA lawsuit—her FEHA claims are time-barred, the judge declared.
Jonasson’s other charges, such as retaliation, wrongful termination, sexual battery, negligent supervision and retention, and infliction of emotional distress, are still pending despite the rejection of the discrimination allegations.
Diesel’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, firmly pushed back on the lawsuit when it was first filed. “There is clear evidence which completely refutes these outlandish allegations,” he said.
