A Manhattan federal court judge ruled Monday that a sex trafficking lawsuit against disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein can proceed.
Aspiring British actress Kadian Noble sued Weinstein in 2017, claiming he sexually assaulted her.
The late judge Robert Sweet previously dismissed part of the lawsuit, and Weinstein asked judge Alison Nathan to freeze a related civil case while he appealed the decision to a higher court in an attempt to get the rest of the suit dismissed.
Yet Nathan said on Monday that she doesn’t see any reason to grant Weinstein’s request.
“Weinstein has failed to show that this case falls into the category of truly exceptional cases for which interlocutory appeal was designed,” she wrote.
Noble claims in her lawsuit that Weinstein lured her to a Cannes, France hotel room, in 2014, where he sexually assaulted her.