A lawsuit introduced ahead towards a number of former members of politically lively punk rock band Anti-Flag has been dismissed. The authorized hassle towards the group first started to emerge in the summertime of 2023, when an nameless allegation of sexual assault was made towards the group’s vocalist/guitarist Justin Geever (Justin Sane).
Kristina Sarhadi would later publicly come ahead along with her allegation towards Geever, claiming he sexually assaulted her in a lodge room again in 2010. With the usual statute of limitations on sexual assault claims quickly lifted in New York as a part of final 12 months’s Grownup Survivors Act, Sarhadi filed swimsuit towards Geever.
In gentle of Sarhadi‘s preliminary allegation, Anti-Flag promptly broke up, with the remainder of the band, sans Geever, claiming to have been ‘shaken to their core’ by the allegations. Geever for his half publicly denied the allegations.
In gentle of Sarhadi coming ahead, roughly a dozen different girls got here ahead with disturbing allegations of their very own towards Geever. With Geever usually publicly aligning himself with feminist causes and counter-culture messaging, his alleged conduct was considered publicly as being significantly sinister.
Sarhadi‘s swimsuit didn’t simply goal Geever nevertheless, as Anti-Flag‘s enterprise Hardwork Distribution Inc. was additionally named within the swimsuit. Sarhadi claimed that the corporate had been chargeable for negligence and negligent infliction of emotional misery, thus seeing the remainder of the group introduced into swimsuit.
Sarhadi claimed that Geever had served because the President and proprietor of that firm total, which is known to have represented the band’s numerous pursuits. In her grievance, Sarhadi alleged that the band and Hardwork Distribution Inc. had “insurance policies and procedures in place to restrict Geever‘s skill to work together with girls and women.”
She went on to assert that such insurance policies had been in place as a result of the corporate and band knew of Geever‘s “propensity to commit sexual assault of in any other case have interaction in inappropriate and harassing conduct with girls.”
Sarhadi additional alleged that the group and numerous members of the band’s enterprise pursuits/inside circle tried to hide or downplay Geever‘s alleged conduct. Citing communication with alleged victims of Geever and press studies, she estimated that Geever‘s victims totaled a minimum of sixty girls who had sexual relations with him whereas both or underage or with out giving him consent.
Sarhadi‘s grievance, which was later amended, additionally included allegations of different people who claimed to have confronted members band through the years relating to a few of the aforementioned incidents Geever was alleged to have been concerned in.
In the end the court docket have seen match to grant Hardwork Distribution Inc. their movement to dismiss this declare introduced towards them after discovering inadequate proof for it to fulfill the authorized bar essential to proceed.
A December 18th, 2024 ruling cited points with an absence of provable ties of Hardwork Distribution Inc. sources, and so on. being concerned in Sarhadi‘s alleged sexual assault by the hands of Geever, amongst different authorized issues.
Geever for his half has not responded to claims introduced ahead towards him within the lawsuit and is alleged to have left america final spring. As such, Sarhadi has been reminded by the court docket to file a movement for a default judgement towards Geever relating to her claims of assault, battery/sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional misery towards him.
A full copy of this preliminary ruling within the case will be discovered by way of courthousenews.com
[via Fake Your Death]
