Do not try to sue Nelly | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: We talked about some music industry news, the latest chapter

0:03 Speaker 1: in the saga of Taylor Swift versus a podcaster who

0:06 Speaker 1: is suing her over the name life of a showgirl.

0:09 Speaker 1: And again I maintained my position that it is a

0:11 Speaker 1: terribly frivolous lawsuit and it's really silly. But unfortunately Maren

0:17 Speaker 1: Wade's legal team seems to have scored what could be

0:21 Speaker 1: a victory as they continue to push this forward. And

0:24 Speaker 1: I really thought it would get thrown out by now.

0:26 Speaker 1: So I'm pretty stunned. Yeah, I mean, like, why is

0:29 Speaker 1: it still here? I was listening to you on the

0:31 Speaker 1: way in and of course, but yeah, and here we

0:35 Speaker 1: are yet again appear well, I speaking of frivolous lawsuits.

0:39 Speaker 1: So this is something that popped up from a digitalmusicnews

0:43 Speaker 1: dot com filing frivolity against Nelly judge saddles attorney suing

0:49 Speaker 1: the rapper with a heavy fine. So there can be

0:52 Speaker 1: consequences for filing a frivolous lawsuit, it says here Ouch,

0:58 Speaker 1: the attorney who sued Nelly for allegedly excluding his former

1:02 Speaker 1: bandmates from credits for his wildly successful debut solo album

1:06 Speaker 1: Country Grammar, has been ordered to pay the rappers legal fees.

1:10 Speaker 1: Precious Felder Gates, that's the attorney's name, The attorney for

1:16 Speaker 1: former Funny parents, Precious Felder Gates, who would do that

1:24 Speaker 1: to their kid, The attorney for per former Saint Lunatic's member,

1:28 Speaker 1: Ali Jones. So if you don't know, if you don't know,

1:31 Speaker 1: Saint Lunatics, that's the sort of the supergroup that Nelly

1:36 Speaker 1: was a part of. The hip hop supergroup. They released

1:38 Speaker 1: I think multiple albums as Saint Lunatics, and I think

1:41 Speaker 1: they performed at the super Bowl as as or it

1:45 Speaker 1: was Nelly performing at the super Bowl but Saint Lunatics

1:48 Speaker 1: joined him or something I can't remember exactly. But so,

1:50 Speaker 1: the attorney for former Saint Lunatic's member Ali Jones, who

1:54 Speaker 1: launched litigation against Nelly, has been ordered to pay sixty seven,

2:00 Speaker 1: five hundred and eighty six dollars to reimburse the Country

2:03 Speaker 1: Grammar rapper for legal fees he incurred while battling the

2:07 Speaker 1: quote frivolous copyright lawsuit. So you know, think about that

2:11 Speaker 1: before you file a frivolous lawsuit against someone. You might

2:14 Speaker 1: end up paying the legal fees and it could really

2:16 Speaker 1: blow up in your face. Seriously, there should be more

2:19 Speaker 1: accountability to people that use the legal system as a

2:22 Speaker 1: vengeful weapon. Absolutely, Nelly's legal counsel Kennethy Freudblitch or Freundlich said, quote,

2:30 Speaker 1: courts have limited patients for litigation used as a weapon

2:34 Speaker 1: rather than a remedy. Frivolous litigation isn't free unquote. Filed

2:41 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, the lawsuit originally claimed that Nelly

2:44 Speaker 1: intentionally excluded his former Saint Lunatic's bandmates from credits and

2:49 Speaker 1: royalties for his debut solo album Country Grammar. However, three

2:53 Speaker 1: members Murphy Lee, Kaiwan and City Spud immediately withdrew, stating

3:01 Speaker 1: they never authorized the case and wanted no involvement. Ultimately,

3:05 Speaker 1: Ali Jones dropped the suit in April last year after

3:09 Speaker 1: Nelly's team argued that it violated the three year statute

3:12 Speaker 1: of limitations. It's a tight statute of limitations three years.

3:16 Speaker 1: But Nelly and Universal Music Group ugh that that name

3:19 Speaker 1: comes up all the time UMG, we talk about lawsuits.

3:23 Speaker 1: They're always involved in lawsuits. Nelly and UMG quickly went

3:27 Speaker 1: to work seeking sanctions, legal penalties for a frivolous case,

3:32 Speaker 1: and reimbursement for unnecessary fees. Now, a federal judge is

3:37 Speaker 1: ruled that Jones's attorney must pay sixty seven, five hundred

3:40 Speaker 1: and eighty six dollars for more than one hundred and

3:43 Speaker 1: fifty hours of legal work done by Nelly's three lawyers.

3:47 Speaker 1: That's an insane amount of money. Wow. Though attorney Precious

3:51 Speaker 1: felder Gates posited that Nelly's demands were excessive, a judge

3:56 Speaker 1: largely rejected those arguments, ruling in October over that it

4:00 Speaker 1: should have been patently obvious that the case was doomed. Initially,

4:07 Speaker 1: Nelly's lawyers asked for seventy eight thousand and seven dollars,

4:11 Speaker 1: which Feldergates argued was unreasonable and that the hours worked

4:15 Speaker 1: were excessive, But the judge ruled that the case required

4:18 Speaker 1: detailed work and that the rates were in fact, quote

4:21 Speaker 1: in line with both the prevailing market rates and the

4:24 Speaker 1: rates charged by attorneys of similar experience unquote. So there

4:30 Speaker 1: you go. So maybe something like that will happen to

4:34 Speaker 1: Marin Wade or whatever her name is. The podcast there

4:36 Speaker 1: Who's suing Taylor Swift Right,