T.I. and Tiny Harris could also be headed to courtroom once more on behalf of their daughter after a choose revised the decision handed down final 12 months.
In a big replace to the long-running authorized battle between MGA Leisure and Clifford “T.I.” Harris, Tameka “Tiny” Harris and the O.M.G. Girlz LLC, a choose has amended the ruling to award the OMG Girlz $17.8 million versus the $71.4 million they had been initially awarded.
In keeping with Law360, the jury decided seven of the corporate’s O.M.G. Dolls infringed the commerce costume and misappropriated the identify, likeness or id of the OMG Girlz pop group T.I. co-owns. To be particular, the courtroom had npw granted the Harris household and the O.M.G. Girlz $17,872,252. In a courtroom doucment obtained by AllHipHop, the revision was reportedly primarily based on income and customary regulation misappropriation.
“Upon consideration of the proof the Court docket grants disgorgement of income of $17, 872,252 below frequent regulation misappropriations, however doesn not award punitive damages. Additional, the Court docket declines to disgorge income or improve the award below the Laham act,” the doc learn.
T.I. and Tiny Harris, who filed the lawsuit towards MGA Leisure in 2020, claimed the dollmaker unlawfully profited from designs and ideas tied to their lady group, the O.M.G. Girlz. The group, based by Tiny Harris, had a singular and colourful aesthetic, which they alleged was instantly mirrored in MGA’s line of dolls.
Earlier this 12 months after the unique verdict within the case was dominated, Tiny spoke about how the lawsuit represented rather more than a authorized win for the group throughout an Instagram Livestream outdoors the courthouse.
“We did this for the town, we did this for the tradition,” a jubilant Tiny started. “It was a hell of a struggle. This struggle been began in 2020 and it’s now ‘24; we couldn’t be extra pleased.”
She additionally expressed her gratitude to the jury for believing their story. “I truthfully needed to come back on right here to say we needed to thank the jurors for simply seeing us by way of this man and simply believing in what we stated,” she added. “They heard our story and so they knew we wasn’t mendacity.”
