Kanye West’s former lawyers asked the court to allow the use of text messages with legal documents, because the rapper cannot be traced.
As per AllHipHop, Law firm Greenberg Traurig requested an extension to serve Kanye West after struggling to find you and cut ties with him as a client.
Earlier, lawyers presented him with legal documents to drop his case, but West stopped talking to them.
“You stopped responding to GT’s attempts to contact him,” attorney Justin McLean wrote to Judge Torres. “And despite diligent efforts and using a process server, GT has been unable to locate or serve you at addresses that GT previously believed you frequented. Additional attempts at personal service Extension to gain time.”
The firm asked the judge to extend the deadline to December 24. Meanwhile, lawyers are also eyeing the court’s permission to serve Kanye West via text message because they can’t trace him.
“GT respectfully requests relief from the court’s requirement to serve you in person, and by text message, in person or in connection with a ‘multipronged approach to service,'” McLean wrote. leaves it to you to issue an order.” The GT respectfully submits that no party will be prejudiced if the application for extension and production by text is granted. As the court noted in granting GT’s motion to withdraw, “[d]The case remains pending, and no trial date has been set.”
Greenberg was representing Kanye West in his legal battle against Traurig Ultra International Music Publishing. The latter sued you for unauthorized use of Marshall Jefferson’s song Move Your Body. They claimed that West sampled the track on his recent Donna 2 album without permission.
