| Rapper 2 Chainz Is Sued in
SDNY For Guard Beating Photog Capak Now
Expands Discovery
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 11 – The rapper
Tauheed Epps, a/k/a 2 Chainz,
was heading into 30
Rockefeller Plaza to the Jimmy
Fallon show when photographer
Richard Capak approached, to
shoot video.
According
to Capak, until he was
"attacked, assaulted and
battered" by the rapper's body
guard, Rory Dorall Smith.
He sued,
and it was it removed to
Federal court.
On
September 8, 2020 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Katharine H.
Parker held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it.
Reference
was made to a party's mother
having Coronavirus, and a loss
of focus on the case.
Judge
Parker set a settlement
conference, which would
require the presence of "the
person with decision making
authority to settle the
matter."
It was not
settled.
Jump cut to July
11, 2022, when Judge Parker
held another conference, on
discovery. Inner City Press
again covered it. The
defendant is represented by
the Quinn Emanuel law firm.
Judge Parker ruled that
discovery is reopened so that
defendant can get the
plaintiff's medical records
and "any statement in
Plaintiff's custody or control
made by Mr. Harry Velez;" they
may depose Velez or Dr. Kaplan
by August 31.
This case is
Capak v. Epps et al,
18-cv-4325 (Abrams / Parker)
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