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UMG was denied its request to delay discovery in the lawsuit after the company said Drake's document requests put an "undue burden" on the company. By Ethan Millman A federal judge denied ...
The eye-popping comments from Universal Music Group (UMG) came in a filing submitted Monday in which the company asked a judge to dismiss the defamation lawsuit, which Drake filed in January.
A day after moving to dismiss the lawsuit, UMG followed up Tuesday by asking the judge to pause discovery until he rules on that motion. That ruling is likely to end the entire case, UMG argued ...
Things between Drake and UMG are heating up. Today (March 17), UMG clapped back at the “Gimme A Hug” rapper’s defamation lawsuit with a filing of its own–a dismissal motion. In court ...
UMG, which represents both artists, broadly argues that the court should dismiss Drake’s lawsuit because he’s just the sore loser of an ugly rap battle and can’t back up any of his claims.
Drake's legal team has provided the following statement to XXL in response to UMG asking that the rapper's defamation lawsuit be dismissed. "UMG wants to pretend that this is about a rap battle in ...
In its first court response to the lawsuit, the world's biggest music company didn't hold back. By Bill Donahue Universal Music Group has filed a scathing first court response to Drake’s ...
In documents filed earlier today, according to Variety, UMG said Drake only filed his lawsuit because he “lost a rap battle that he provoked and in which he willingly participated.” ...
Universal Music Group (UMG) has launched a broadside against Drake, one of the label's biggest artists, in its motion to dismiss the Canadian rapper's defamation lawsuit over the release of ...
Update: Drake’s attorney, Michael J. Gottlieb, shared a statement: “UMG wants to pretend that this is about a rap battle in order to distract its shareholders, artists and the public from a ...
Part-time Texas resident Drake's ongoing legal battle against Universal Music Group (UMG) keeps heating up as his Bexar County hearing approaches. The hearing on UMG's move to dismiss Drake's ...
of November 2024, where Drake filed several legal actions against Kendrick’s label, Universal Music Group (UMG) and iHeart Media, alleging that they both used backdoor methods to inflate the ...