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Remy Ma victim’s Universal lawsuit dismissed for second time
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 12 May 2010
A New York court has dismissed that previously reported lawsuit being pursued by the woman shot by Remy Ma against the rapper’s record label, Universal Records.
As previously reported, in 2008 Ma was found guilty of shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph the previous year and was sentenced to eight years in jail. The victim then launched civil proceedings against the hip hopper and her label. The claim against Universal was based on the somewhat dubious idea that by allowing Ma to include “violence in her music”, and by allegedly continuing to financially support her after the shooting incident, they should somehow be liable for the shooting itself.
Universal had already had the lawsuit against them dismissed, but Barnes-Joseph’s lawyer had that dismissal overturned on appeal in February, resulting in a new lawsuit being filed. But that went to court this week and judges quickly ruled that, because Remy Ma had, in fact, been dropped by Universal nine months prior to the shooting, all other claims against the record company were irrelevant. The lawsuit was duly dismissed for a second time.
