Megan Thee Stallion requested a court docket to forestall 1501 Licensed Leisure from deposing Roc Nation CEO Desiree Perez.
In keeping with paperwork obtained by AllHipHop, Megan Thee Stallion sought a protecting order for Perez within the rapper’s ongoing authorized battle with 1501. Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys criticized 1501 for issuing a subpoena to Perez, calling it an “underhanded tactic.”
“1501 doesn’t search related, admissible proof as a result of Perez doesn’t have any,” the attorneys defined. “Relatively, 1501 is intent on harassing Perez and disrupting her tasks as CEO of Roc Nation. However Texas regulation doesn’t give 1501 a license to make use of discovery for these functions. The apex doctrine is relevant the place, as right here, a celebration seeks to distract a senior government from their duties to sit down for an improper deposition.”
Megan Thee Stallion, whose actual title is Megan Pete, sued 1501 in an effort to get out of her cope with the label. The multi-platinum promoting artist believed she accomplished her contractual obligations.
Carl Crawford and his 1501 imprint claimed Megan Thee Stallion hasn’t fulfilled the phrases of their deal. The label additionally argued it had no points together with her till Roc Nation turned concerned in her profession.
1501 wished to query Roc Nation’s CEO within the case. However Megan Thee Stallion’s authorized staff insisted a deposition of Perez can be “improper.”
“As set forth within the affidavit, Perez has no distinctive information related to this motion and her deposition isn’t moderately more likely to result in related proof,” the attorneys contended. “The claims and defenses at challenge on this case contain two major disputes: (1) the accounting between Pete and 1501; and (2) the contractual dispute relating to whether or not Pete’s two newest albums fulfill her recording commitments beneath the Artist Settlement. Perez doesn’t have distinctive or superior information relating to both.”
Attorneys acknowledged Perez has “some information” of Megan Thee Stallion’s basic affairs, however the Roc Nation CEO doesn’t deal with the rapper’s funds. Attorneys sought a protecting order for Perez, who wouldn’t present related testimony relating to 1501’s album settlement.
“1501 doesn’t search to depose Perez for any official cause and the posture of this dispute reveals that 1501’s hope is to keep away from having its movement selected the deserves,” the authorized staff wrote. “The Court docket mustn’t condone what’s, at greatest, gamesmanship or, at worst, an abuse of the judicial course of. Accordingly, the discover needs to be quashed and a protecting order ought to challenge.”