A Yuba County judge on Monday tossed out a $4 million defamation lawsuit a former UC Davis student filed against a woman he was accused of sexually assaulting.
Lang Her’s lawsuit accused Yee Xiong and three of her siblings of colluding to alienate him from the close-knit ethnic Hmong community and called him a rapist on Facebook. The postings were later removed.
Xiong, a UCD graduate, was served with the lawsuit in the Yolo County Courthouse on the same day Her was sentenced to a year in county jail after admitting to a charge of assault likely to produce great bodily injury.
Her made the plea deal rather than face a third trial for the alleged rape, which Xiong said occurred in July 2012 in Her’s off-campus apartment. His first two trials in May 2015 and earlier this year ended with hung juries.