Overview
- Tory Lanez, who filed the case Tuesday in federal court, seeks $100 million from the California Department of Corrections, the Tehachapi warden and guards, alleging they failed to protect him.
- The suit says fellow inmate Santino Casio stabbed him 16 times on May 12, 2025, causing two collapsed lungs and permanent facial scars, and that he was airlifted to a hospital before being moved to California Men’s Colony.
- Lanez argues officials recklessly housed him with Casio despite Casio’s life sentence and past weapon offenses, saying violence was foreseeable given Lanez’s public profile.
- The filing claims officers were slow to stop the attack and did not use tools like flash grenades or smoke to halt it, framing the response as deliberate indifference to his safety.
- The lawsuit also alleges staff seized his unpublished songbooks and notes for his attorney during his hospitalization and refused to return them, saying the materials carry substantial commercial value.