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Legal
D12 lawsuit dismissed at appeal
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 25 March 2009
A lawsuit brought against D12 by the former manager of one of the group’s members has been dismissed at appeal by a court in Michigan.
Kenyatta Hudson claims to have signed a management contract with Ondre ‘Swift’ Moore to run from 1999 to 2003, as well as agreeing to manage D12 as a whole for a minimum of six months. However, when the group signed to Eminem’s Shady Records label later in 1999 they ditched him like a pair of old socks. He promptly sued them for “millions of dollars” of lost earnings. But on Friday Michigan’s Court Of Appeals upheld a previous ruling that Moore cannot enforce the contract as he never registered to become a licensed personnel agent – something required under Michigan law.
Hudson ain’t happy about it. Not one little bit. And he’s threatening to write a book about the whole thing, presumably in an attempt to get his money by other means. It doesn’t really sound like it would be a very interesting book, though. Maybe I’m missing something. Anyway, he told SOHH.com: “I think the courts are wrong in what they are saying. I haven’t spoken with my lawyer yet, but this is going to have to go to higher ground because there’s just no way for them to have found the way they did. I had a contract with D12 and that is not being honoured. In America, we are supposed to honour contracts. I’m considering writing a book about my experience in all of this”.
