Ex-JPMorgan banker Chirayu Rana can not stay nameless in his explosive intercourse slave lawsuit in opposition to a feminine government on the financial institution, a decide dominated Tuesday — the most recent main blow to his authorized case.
“The case regulation makes it actually clear,” mentioned Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Choose Dakota D. Ramseur. “You’ll be able to’t put the genie again within the bottle.”
Rana’s identification was revealed by The Put up after he filed the go well with in opposition to Lorna Hajdini and America’s largest financial institution earlier this month. However formally, he was “John Doe” and was looking for to stay nameless as a result of he claimed to be a sufferer of intercourse harassment and assault.
The ruling got here after Rana’s high-powered lawyer, Daniel Kaiser dropped his shopper, saying that they had mutually agreed to “finish their partnership.
Legal professionals for Hadjini and JPMorgan argued that Rana has participated in press protection — and claimed he employed a disaster PR agency.
Maintaining Rana’s identification secret would even be “prejudicial” to their purchasers — permitting to Hajdini and JPMorgan’s names “to be continued to be dragged by the mud,” Hajdini’s lawyer, Melissa Rodriguez argued.
It could even be more durable to argue Hajdini’s defamation counterclaims, which she filed final week.
“The cat’s out of the bag,” mentioned Rodriguez. “My shopper…can not proceed to clear her title,” she mentioned in reference to a last-minute 60-day adjournment requested by Kaiser at 9:01 a.m. on the day of the listening to.
“The general public ought to be permitted to know what’s going on.”
Rana’s lawyer, Kaiser, had sought to delay the ruling, however the decide denied the request on the grounds that Kaiser’s submitting didn’t embody the title of a brand new lawyer.
Ramseur pressed Kaiser in regards to the request for his shopper to proceed to be named “John Doe” in his case in opposition to Lorna Hajdini, as he had been in earlier filings.
Showing resigned and unprepared, Kaiser declined to quote any particular circumstances the place an individual was permitted to stay nameless regardless of the world already realizing his title, arguing that the character of the allegations ought to be ample to allow his confidentiality in courtroom filings.
“I’m not conscious of 1,” Kaiser conceded, citing no case regulation or precedent supporting his request, however argued future confidentiality should still be protected as soon as “curiosity will fade” within the case.
Rodriguez argued that his lawsuit was so detailed, with names of tasks and supervisors, that “any reporter might work out who they have been speaking about.”
Attorneys for JPM and Hajdini argued that it might be unfair to have their names printed alongside the salacious allegations whereas he’s afforded particular privileges.
“However it doesn’t finish there, your honor. The plaintiff himself has spoken with the media publicly,” citing an interview final week in The Juggernaut about his life story.
“Previous to that, plaintiff had engaged a disaster administration agency that additionally spoke publicly and disclosed his title to varied media retailers,” Rodriguez mentioned.
“Ms. Hajdini could be severely prejudiced if the plaintiff is allowed to proceed to proceed on a Doe foundation,” she argued.
Choose Ramseur additionally pushed for Rana, the financial institution and Hajdini to settled the case out of courtroom.
Sources beforehand instructed The Put up that JPMorgan had provided Rana $1 million to drop his claims — which the financial institution referred to as “fabricated.”
“I do need to encourage on the file that everybody speak to their respective purchasers to the extent that they’ll and discover out what, if something, could make this case resolve itself,” she mentioned.
Rana has claimed he was subjected to a sustained marketing campaign of sexual coercion and racial degradation whereas administration ignored his complaints, and that Hajdini threatened to slash his bonus until he agreed to change into her “intercourse slave.”
Neither Rana nor Hajdini attended the hourlong listening to.
The following courtroom date within the case is ready for June 23
