The long-running lawsuit accusing Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler of sexually abusing a minor in the 1970s is headed for a new May 3 trial before its fifth judge, who vowed Monday to see the case through to the end.

At a hearing in downtown Los Angeles, the new judge also said he was prepared to reconsider any rulings made by his predecessor, Judge Patricia Young, who stepped aside in September with just two weeks to go before a prior trial date in the case. Young voluntarily recused herself after disclosing that she had discussed the case with another judge who had previously been disqualified from the case.

On Monday, the new judge, Lawrence Riff, said he would toss out and reconsider any of Young’s rulings “from the beginning of her assignment” if either side requested it. Lawyers for the plaintiff, Julia Misley, said they would challenge a key ruling from earlier this year that gutted her case. The ruling, known as a summary adjudication, dismissed Misley’s claims involving alleged misconduct in Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington, leaving only those involving California.

“Both parties here are entitled to have the peace of mind at the end of the case that everything was on the up and up and proper, and that there’s no lingering shadow of doubt of possible impropriety,” Riff said, explaining that he would review the earlier rulings based on arguments already submitted to the court, without allowing either side to file new ones.

Riff acknowledged that the additional hearings would increase legal costs for both sides, but he expected to keep the trial date in the first half of next year, regardless. “There will be more hearings, to say the least, but I don’t think it’s going to unduly prolong the pretrial proceedings,” he said.

In her lawsuit filed in December 2022 and first reported by Rolling Stone, Misley claimed that Tyler sexually abused her for years beginning in 1973, when she was a high school sophomore, and he was 25. Tyler denied the claims spanning three years and four states as he asked the court to dismiss the entire lawsuit. Tyler and his lawyers argued that he lived with Misley in Boston for most of their relationship, where the age of consent was 16. He argued that Massachusetts law governed them even when he traveled with Misley, formerly Julia Holcomb, in other states.