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Cuba Gooding Jr. Launches Constitutional Challenge Against NYC Law in Seeking to Dismiss Civil Rape Suit | New York Law Journal - Law.com

Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. listen as his attorney Mark Heller addresses press after his arraignment in New York State Supreme Court in the Manhattan. New York, NY - October 15, 2019. Credit: lev radin/Shutterstock.com
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. listens as his attorney Mark Heller addresses the press after his arraignment in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. New York, NY – October 15, 2019. Credit: lev radin/Shutterstock.com

An attorney for Cuba Gooding Jr. raised a constitutional challenge Friday to a New York City law that gives victims of gender-motivated violence up to seven years to sue their alleged abusers.

The argument came as Gooding’s lawyer, Edward Sapone, sought to dismiss a federal lawsuit from an unnamed accuser, who said the Academy Award-winning actor had raped her, twice and without a condom, at a Manhattan hotel in 2013.

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source: https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2021/12/03/cuba-gooding-jr-launches-constitutional-challenge-against-nyc-law-in-seeking-to-dismiss-civil-rape-suit/

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