A judge has dismissed the majority of a child sexual assault lawsuit filed against Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler by a woman who alleged he sexually assaulted her as a minor. In a ruling given on Tuesday (April 28), the lawsuit had been filed too far past the statute of limitations, which lawyers for the musician said was “a massive win”

“This is a massive win for Steven Tyler,” his lawyer, David Long-Daniels, said in a statement to Billboard. “Today, the Court has dismissed with prejudice 99.9 per cent of the claims against Mr. Tyler in this case. The court has decided that only one night, 50-plus years ago, out of a three year relationship is allowed to remain. We look forward to trying this case on August 31.”

Julia Misley sued Tyler back in 2022, claiming she was the unnamed teenager he referred to in his memoir, claiming he had abused his fame to win control over her and sexually assaulted her for three years starting in 1973, when she was just 16-years-old. Alleged that Tyler had “groomed” and “manipulated” her as a teenager decades ago, and claimed that he had admitted as much by referring to her as his “teen bride” in his memoir.

Tyler’s lawyers described the time in question as a consensual “romantic relationship” between a man in his mid-twenties and a woman aged 16 to 19. They argue that this relationship was legal based on the age of consent. In a recent ruling, Judge Young said that even if Misley’s claims were valid, the case was filed too late according to the state’s laws on how long you have to file a lawsuit.

Judge Young wrote, “The plaintiff’s suit was filed more than 35 years after the alleged acts and more than 35 years after she turned 18. To be timely, this suit must have been filed within seven years.”

However, Misley (formerly Holcomb) can sue over an alleged sexual encounter during a brief trip to California – where time limits do not apply because of a special sexual abuse law, but dismissed accusations concerning the rest of their relationship.

“The parties travelled to California on one occasion and engaged in sexual relations here during that trip,” the judge wrote. “The age of consent in California is, and was at all relevant times, 18. Thus, it was against the law for plaintiff and defendant to engage in sexual relations with each other in California because plaintiff was legally incapable of consenting.”

In California, these time limits do not apply because of the Child Victims Act. This 2020 law allows alleged victims to bring lawsuits that would usually be too late to file. The age of consent in California was also 18 during Tyler and Misley’s relationship.

In a 2011 essay, Holcomb said of the alleged experience: “I became lost in a rock and roll culture. In Steven’s world it was sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but it seemed no less chaotic than the world I left behind. I didn’t know it yet, but I would barely make it out alive.