More from the pop courts, and the widow of Grateful Dead main man Jerry Garcia has launched legal action against her own company, which is all a bit confusing. The litigation is aiming to secure access to unpublished tapes of various Garcia musical performances, which his widow wants to restore and release.
Deborah Koons Garcia's lawsuit is against a company jointly owned by the late rocker's beneficiaries, which still manages the assets of his estate. Koons Garcia claims that the other shareholders of the company have been unfairly blocking her attempts to restore the recordings, and also argues that the company should have been dissolved in 2005 (ten years after Garcia's death) with individual beneficiaries getting sole control of different assets.
The lawsuit asks a judge to clarify the terms of agreement that led to the formation of the business entity and, presumably, to back Koons Garcia's arguments that the company should no longer exist which, in turn, would presumably give her access to those tapes.
It's not the first litigation relating to the company. Other beneficiaries, including the rocker's daughter Keelin Noel Garcia, have sued Koons Garcia in a bid to keep the company going, and also over allegations Garcia's widow has incompetently managed the estate's finances.
The lawsuit should go to court in April.