Evander Kane assault accuser asks bankruptcy court to allow her case to proceed – The Athletic

Rachel Kuechle, who accuses San Jose Sharks left wing Evander Kane of assault, asked a federal bankruptcy court to partially lift the stay on her five-year-old lawsuit, raising the prospects of another messy legal proceeding against Kane.

Kane filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in January, which itself has spawned at least four derivative lawsuits within that process, including a creditor who says she is owed millions of dollars because he agreed to pay her for aborting their pregnancy. He is also engaged in a divorce proceeding with his soon-to-be ex-wife Anna, which has generated allegations of abuse from each side.

Kuechles request is to allow her case to re-commence in upstate New York state court, where it has automatically been stayed since Kane filed for bankruptcy. She accused Kane of physical assault in a 2016 lawsuit, though her relief from stay motion in the bankruptcy court describes it as a sexual assault, the first time that description has been used in the case.

Evander Frank Kane, Debtor herein, sexually assaulted Rachel Kuechle in the City of Buffalo, New York, after midnight on the morning of December 27, 2015, the motion read. Asked about the addition of the term sexual, her attorney, Reno F.R.

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Evander Kane assault accuser asks bankruptcy court to allow her case to proceed - The Athletic