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A Philadelphia-based litigation funding company is suing a California law firm and its client over the alleged failure to repay funds loaned to help support the client during his copyright suit against musical artist Usher and various record labels.
Lawyers Funding Group is seeking $102,500 from Los Angeles attorney Alan Harris, his firm, Harris & Ruble, and composer Ernest Straughter, according to the complaint in Lawyers Funding Group LLC v. Harris, 2014cv06369, filed in November in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The litigation funding company argues that Harris and his firm failed to ensure the company's right to a portion of any recoveries Straughter earned in his suit over whether Usher's “Burn” violated Straughter's copyright in the song “Reason.”
In September 2011, Lawyers Funding invested $15,000 in connection with Straughter's pending civil litigation against Sony Entertainment, Usher and others over copyright infringement. Straughter, according to his underlying copyright complaint filed in the Los Angeles-based Central District of California, is a Grammy-winning composer and recording artist.
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