Macy's wants a judge to remove it from a sexual assault lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs.The suit says Macy's violated a gender-violence law by ignoring an attack at the Herald Square store.The plaintiff himself describes Diddy as "an equal opportunity sexual predator," Macy's argues.Macy's wants to be removed as a defendant in a sexual assault lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs and their arguments for dismissal include calling the rap entrepreneur "an equal opportunity sexual predator."The October lawsuit accuses Macy's of violating a New York City gender-violence law by covering up an alleged attack by Combs on a male employee at the Herald Square flagship store in 2008.The worldwide department chain argues the plaintiff, only identified as John Doe, cannot accuse Macy's of gender bias because, in the very same lawsuit, Doe himself describes Combs as willing to attack both men and women."Plaintiff's own allegations establish not only that this was a same-sex assault, but that Mr. Combs sexually assaulted both men and women, without regard to gender," the Macy's lawyers argued in court papers last week."Plaintiff does not address the fact that his own allegations establish that Mr. Combs was an equal opportunity sexual predator."A spokesperson for Combs declined to comment on Macy's argument, instead referring BI to his own motion to dismiss the case against himself and his companies, filed Tuesday.His motion also challenges the applicability of New York's gender-violence law. Combs has repeatedly denied any sexual assaults."Mr. Combs denies the entirely false and salacious claims against him in the Complaint and is confident that he and the Company Defendants (against whom no misconduct or participation is even alleged) would be fully vindicated if this case were to proceed to trial," his dismissal motion said.District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken's decision on whether to dismiss Macy's could come at any time. A decision on Combs' dismissal bid is not due until sometime after the plaintiff responds.Macy's is the deepest-pocket defendant by far in any of a blizzard of more than 30 sex-assault lawsuits filed against the rapper in the past year.The plaintiff says in his lawsuit that at the time of the alleged attack, he was working at Macy's flagship Manhattan store for Ecko, a rival hip-hop fashion brand to Combs' Sean John Clothing.His 19-page lawsuit alleges that he was working in a stockroom when Combs entered with three armed bodyguards who struck him and threatened to kill him.Combs then orally raped him in the stockroom, while calling him "Ecko" and taunting, "You like that, white boy?" the lawsuit alleges. After what was alleged to be a two-minute attack, Combs then grabbed armfuls of Sean Jean clothing, left the stockroom with his bodyguards, and proceeded to hand out clothes to shoppers "as if nothing had happened," the lawsuit claims.The plaintiff alleges that the chain did nothing to support him when he came forward with his allegations against Combs, and instead fired him to protect a multimillion-dollar deal with Sean Jean.In fighting to be dropped as a defendant, lawyers for Macy's argued that the lawsuit does not allege store employees were in any way involved in the attack.Macy's lawyers also pointed to the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law. The lawyers for the man had argued in their lawsuit that the gender violence law entitled their client to seek damages from Macy's.Macy's countered that the law does not permit claims against corporations for assaults prior to 2022, and that the lawsuit failed to offer any evidence that the alleged violence was motivated by gender bias.Combs' alleged "white boy" taunt does not refer to gender bias, Macy's lawyers argued in papers signed by attorney Daniel Kotler.The word "boy" in that scenario "functions primarily as a term of status and belittlement (boy versus man) rather than as a gendered comment (boy versus girl) it is in effect an inversion of the classically racist use of the term 'boy' to degrade or belittle African Americans," Macy's side argued.Kotler did not immediately respond to a request for comment for this story.Buzbee, the lead attorney for the plaintiff, counters in court papers that the New York gender-violence law does cover corporations involved in attacks prior to 2022. He also argues that "the fact that Combs violently assaulted people of both genders does not somehow exempt"A pretty novel argument that should fail," Buzbee told Business Insider on Tuesday of Macy's dismissal arguments.