Overview
- The state filed a motion on Wednesday, July 29, asking a federal judge in Los Angeles to throw out every claim Lanez brought against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
- Lanez sued in April after a May 12, 2025 attack at the California Correctional Institution in Tehachapi that he says left him with 16 stab wounds, two collapsed lungs, and permanent facial scarring.
- The complaint alleges prison officials knowingly housed Lanez near inmate Santino Casio despite Casio’s long record of violent convictions and in-prison assaults and that staff responded slowly and delayed medical care.
- Lanez seeks roughly $100 million, including about $1 million per stab wound and $10 million for scarring, and says officers seized handwritten songbooks of unreleased material after the attack.
- If the court grants the state’s Eleventh Amendment request with prejudice at the August 26 hearing, the federal suit would likely end before any factual findings, though narrow legal exceptions could still be argued on appeal.