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by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton
April 13, 2024
The Harris County District Court docket of the eleventh civil district in Texas granted the rapper’s request.
In a latest court docket ruling, Canadian famous person Aubrey “Drake” Graham was dismissed from an Astroworld lawsuit that named him as a defendant within the competition that took the lives of 10 concertgoers and injured a whole lot of others on Nov. 5, 2021.
In accordance with USA In the present day, Drake filed a movement in March to be dismissed from the lawsuit, which included extra defendants, Travis Scott and his firm, Cactus Jack Enterprises, and Apple. The Harris County District Court docket of the eleventh civil district in Texas granted Drake’s request. The ruling returned April 10 after Drake’s attorneys filed the paperwork on March 8.
The court docket agreed to the “Thank Me Later” recording artist’s request for a abstract judgment and dismissed “all claims asserted in opposition to defendant (Drake) by all plaintiffs and intervenors on this multidistrict litigation.”
Apple and Cactus Jack filed related paperwork, however their requests for dismissals had been denied on April 8.
KCRA reported that state District Choose Kristen Hawkins dismissed seven corporations and people within the lawsuit. Ten different corporations and people had been denied motions to dismiss. The choose is slated to listen to extra motions to dismiss, together with Scott, headlined of the occasion on April 15.
On that fateful evening on Nov. 5, 2021, 10 individuals, ranging in age from 9 to 27 years, died on the Astroworld competition. Roughly 300 attendees had been injured and handled on the venue, whereas 25 individuals had been taken to native hospitals.
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