No. 23-84

Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2023-07-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: breach-of-duty business-ventures civil-procedure copyright-infringement defamation legal-duty pseudonym-authorship songwriter-rights songwriting-compensation
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

The schedule of a phenomenal, superstar U.S. Rapper and Executive has to be a tiring, stressful one. Stress and loss of rest has to intensify with the addition of Executive duties such as business workshops and classes to properly run businesses such as Rocawear Clothing, 40/40 Club, Armand de Brignac Champagne and others. The transition must have been extensive including interviews, promotional events and concert tours for a gentleman who has less than a high school graduates education. Within the midst of becoming disciplined and prepared to take on the world, this Great M.C. would require assistance from others with business preparations, liaisons to assist with balancing schedules and songwriters to assist with lyrics and ideas to create Phenomenal Hits repeatedly in a short amount of time!

1. With other Copyright Owners listed on U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Registrations, is it possible that Shawn Jay-Z Carter received needed assistance with composing lyrics for songs, he made into hits? And if so, is it possible Shawn Jay-Z Carter with so many new business ventures may have forgotten to compensate a person who assisted him with composing lyrics for songs a songwriter which is listed under a Pseudonym on U.S. Copyright Registrations jointly owned by the songwriter, Shawn Jay-Z Carter and others?

2. Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty? Given the Petitioner's sufferance of an injury and proof that Defendant's breach caused the injury (typically defined through proximate cause) constitute elements evidencing this violation?

3. Did the Counsel of the Defendant make a statement of Defamation within their opening arguments of Defendant's 7 Motion for Dismissal? Was the Statement, "Howard has tried this trick before: he has brought lawsuits in other districts against other rappers similarly claiming to have written their music and to have loaned them millions of dollars. See e.g. Howard v. Pearl, No. 2:20-cv-05880-MWF-MRW (C.D. Cal.): Howard v. 3, 6 Mafia, No. l:20-cv-06116-LLS (S.D.N.Y.). Howard is a serial litigant whose unfounded claims should be dismissed with prejudice for at least three independent reasons." a deceitful technique used to get Plaintiff Jermaine Howard's Complaint dismissed because Counsel's Statement contrasts Defendant Shawn Jay-Z Carter's Statement, "JAY-Z denies Howard's allegations but accepts any well pleaded facts as true for the purpose of this motion only see e.g. Trustees of Upstate N.Y. Eng'rs Pension Fund v. Ivy Asset Mgmt., 843 F.3d 561, 566 (2d Cir. 2016)."; the statement was placed in a footnote on page #3 of Defendant Carter's Motion to Dismiss Complaint, l:20-cv-00417, Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter? And would this statement of Defamation be a depiction of how the Defendant regards the Plaintiff which has left the Plaintiff injured as far as not receiving the Plaintiff's division of profits for being an author (Co-author) of songs with Defendant along with slighting the Plaintiff to the degree that the Plaintiff's songwriting career was snuffed out?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty?

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-08-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-08-22
Waiver of right of respondent Shawn Jay-Z Carter to respond filed.
2023-03-15

Attorneys

Jermaine Jevon Howard
Jermaine Jevon Howard — Petitioner
Shawn Jay-Z Carter
Alexander Benjamin SpiroQuinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, Respondent