celeb news Normani & Sam Smith can't recover $700K legal bill after beating copyright lawsuit

[Nefertiti0]

6 months after Sam Smith and Normani beat a copyright lawsuit over their 2019 hit “Dancing With a Stranger,” a federal judge is refusing to force their accuser to reimburse their legal fees — a bill the stars say exceeded $700,000.
 

Normani and Sam have argued that they shouldn't be forced to foot the huge bill they incurred fending off the “frivolous and unreasonable" lawsuit, which claimed the duo had copied a little-known 2015 song.”
 

While U.S. District Judge Wesley L. Hsu dismissed the lawsuit last year, he ruled Monday that the case was not so completely baseless as to warrant punishing the accuser with paying the stars' massive legal bill.

Judge Hsu did rule that Smith and Normani could recover their legal “costs" from the plaintiffs, but such awards are typically far smaller than awards of attorney's fees. In earlier court filings, attorneys for Smith and Normani calculated such costs at $10,173.

 

Edited March 20 by Nefertiti0

[Burn]

I feel sorry for Normani and Normani only.

[Yog]

4 minutes ago, Burn said:

I feel sorry for Normani and Normani only.

700k is hardly effecting Sam's wallet.. but go off 

 

OT:  Sam & Normani won the lawsuit, Therefore..they should be able to get the plantiffs to pay the legal bills they incurred for having to defend themselves against this lying mess!

[remming]

41 minutes ago, Yog said:

700k is hardly effecting Sam's wallet.. but go off 

 

OT:  Sam & Normani won the lawsuit, Therefore..they should be able to get the plantiffs to pay the legal bills they incurred for having to defend themselves against this lying mess!

I think it would have been awarded to them if it was a more reasonable number. Having to pay 700,000k back for the ppl who sued them would have kept them in permanent debt. It was a nonsense lawsuit but those ppl are never going to make 700,000 in their entire lives 

[Kylie Jenner]

Can she even afford $7 let alone $700k?

[wildsidenormani]

 

so that's where the budget for the candy paint MV went and why she's been doing brand deals left right and centre. normani get behind me omg...

[l3disko]

Poor Normani, how is she going to be able to afford this?

[Bussea]

Oh no. Let me door dash some wings and tip nicely to help the good sis out

 

[Exzime.]

No wonder Normani sold her house. She's broke, I fear 

[Iceland]

Just show hole sis

[Qrcode]

On 3/20/2024 at 12:50 PM, Yog said:

700k is hardly effecting Sam's wallet.. but go off 

 

OT:  Sam & Normani won the lawsuit, Therefore..they should be able to get the plantiffs to pay the legal bills they incurred for having to defend themselves against this lying mess!

The label probably took care of the whole bill. And neither artist paid a single penny.

[naval23]

Hopefully Sam can give a bone to Normani and pay the bill 

[abrahamjmr]

You all acting as if Normani does not have a "reported" net worth of $6M.

[Kamil24]

Well Sam has been successful enough to cover this I assume? Poor Normani, would suck to pay even half of that for her.

[Red Velvet]

14 minutes ago, abrahamjmr said:

You all acting as if Normani does not have a "reported" net worth of $6M.

700k or half of that is still a large amount for a celebrity at Normani's level. She hasn't worked that much either in the past few years.

 

Maybe thats why she is now coming back?

Edited March 23 by Red Velvet

[abrahamjmr]

1 minute ago, Red Velvet said:

700k or half of that is still a large amount for a celebrity at Norman's level. She hasn't worked that much either in the past few years.

 

Maybe thats why she is now coming back?

Does she have to pay the $700k herself?

[Simple]

Slap her with more lawsuits and make her release the album tomorrow

She gotta work hard for the money like the rest of us 

 

[Iaintsorry]

So that's why she's finally putting out the album