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Legal
More Death Row wrangling
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 12 April 2010
The latest legal battle over seminal hip hop label Death Row Records continues, with a date set for the next hearing in the New York strand of the dispute.
As previously reported, the lawyer who bought Death Row out of bankruptcy at the start of 2009, Lara Lavi, fell out with her financial backers, New Solutions Group, late last year. She tried to use a court injunction to stop them from interfering with decisions regarding the running of the label, meanwhile they fired her.
Lavi tried to pursue her litigation against New Solutions in the New York courts, while they have been suing her through the Canadian legal system, because both they and her company are actually registered in Canada. The Canadian case is ongoing, but the New York courts said last week they had set a hearing for the dispute for 12 May. So that’s something to look forward to.
In related news, Lavi has told Billboard that the whole matter may as yet be settled out of court. She seems to think that New Solutions are ready to be bought out of the Death Row venture, and she is trying to raise the funds to do just that.
She told the US trade mag: “My focus remains fixed on preparing my settlement offer. [New Solutions’ executive] Robert Thompson-So asked to be bought out and I am the only person likely to make a proper offer when I am ready”.
