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Common Music Group is seeking to have Drake’s pre-action petition in Texas dismissed. On Thursday (Jan. 23), the document firm submitted a 144-page movement to throw out the case, which they declare was filed within the incorrect state within the first place.
Within the court docket submitting, UMG alleged that Drake “resorted to strategic authorized retaliation” in an try to “strain them to restrict the distribution” of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.” It additional acknowledged, “The [Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991] protects events from this precise sort of authorized retaliation by offering an expedited course of to summarily dismiss authorized actions, together with petitions for pre-suit depositions introduced underneath Texas Rule of Civil Process 202, which are designed and supposed to intimidate and punish individuals for exercising their First Modification rights.”
Elsewhere, UMG contends that the petition must be dismissed as a result of Drake “didn’t file his peition in a ‘correct court docket’” since no representatives for the corporate reside in Bexar County, as required by state legislation. Additionally they argued that he “already filed go well with on his potential claims, obviating any want for pre-suit discovery.” That, after all, refers back to the defamation case the “Greatest I Ever Had” artist lodged in New York earlier within the month.
UMG’s movement to dismiss provides a glimpse into the protection methods they’ll probably use within the upcoming lawsuit. On Wednesday (Jan. 22), Decide Jeannette Vargas granted the corporate a 34-day extension because of the Los Angeles wildfires. She dominated that their response to the rapper’s claims would now be due by March 17 as an alternative of the unique Feb. 11 deadline.
As for the pre-action petition in Texas, Drake and UMG’s listening to is scheduled for Jan. 28 — except a decide decides to dismiss it. If that occurs, the world’s largest music firm is requesting that the Canadian hitmaker cowl all their authorized charges.