Snoop Dogg at WrestleMania XL. Photo Credit: Diego Serrano
Counsel for Snoop Dogg and the relevant label just recently made the dismissal push official. Meanwhile, Universal Music, Jimmy Iovine, and several others are likewise defendants in the pro se complaint.
We broke down that complaint when it was filed – and then once more when the presiding judge scheduled a pretrial conference – last month. Long story short, Lydia Harris (the ex-wife of Death Row co-founder Michael Harris) says she’s owed big for her purported stake in the label, which Snoop Dogg bought in 2022.
She sued Suge Knight (who allegedly pushed her out of Death Row) for similar reasons in 2002, and a court in 2005 entered a $107 million default judgement in her favor (hence the damages sought in the current action).
But Suge Knight went on to declare bankruptcy, and Team Snoop maintains that a 2008 bankruptcy settlement both resolved Lydia’s claims and prevented her from seeking relief down the line. (Lydia has seemingly confirmed receiving a $1 million “good-faith payment” from Suge Knight at some point.)
Consequently, Snoop Dogg is painting the newest suit as the latest in a series of attempts to overturn the 2008 settlement. Lydia, who hasn’t hesitated to elaborate on her position in the media, is alleging that “strategic bankruptcy filings” concealed the assets in question and prevented the settlement’s full enforcement.
“Thus,” reads one part of the dismissal motion, “over 20 years have elapsed between the March 9, 2005 entry of judgment and the March 18, 2025 filing of Plaintiff’s Complaint, a time period which is considerably outside the one-year statute of limitations.”
Furthermore, the two mentioned defendants say the prior litigation and settlement definitively resolved the claims at hand, subsequent discovery of additional information or not.
“Here,” the text indicates, “the proof of service filed by Plaintiff clearly shows that Plaintiff [a party to the action, of course] herself served the Complaint via certified mail. This is clearly improper and constitutes an independent ground for insufficient service.”
For these and different reasons, the court should toss the action and deem Lydia a vexatious litigant to boot, per counsel for Snoop and Death Row. The plaintiff is allegedly “a bad faith litigant” who “continued a pattern of harassment in California for years and has now shifted her harassment to a new forum in Texas,” the motion reads.
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Snoop Dogg and Death Row Move to Toss ‘Undeniably Time-Barred’ $107 Million Lawsuit – Digital Music News
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