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NY Court Strips Major Claims from Lil Wayne's Suit Against Lawyer
A New York State appellate court knocked out major claims from prominent rapper Lil Wayne's $20 million lawsuit against Ronald Sweeney, his former attorney and representative of 13 years, including causes of action for fraudulent inducement, legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and unjust enrichment. Carter v. Sweeney, 2023 NY Slip Op 00150 (N.Y. App. Div., 1st Dept.).
The New York Appellate Division, First Department, which addressed the four different claims succinctly, found that each was devoid of any merit, a decision that appears to be a blow through the heart of the rapper's 10-claim suit against Sweeney.
The appellate court affirmed a 2021 decision from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward D'Auguste, who had dismissed Lil Wayne's four central claims. In that same 2021 decision, Justice D'Auguste tossed out four more causes of action leveled by the rapper against the Manhattan-based Sweeney, as well as subsections of Lil Wayne's claim for declaratory judgment. Carter v. Sweeney, 151067/19 (N.Y. Sup. Ct., N.Y. Cty. 2021). That left only a sliver of Lil Wayne's legal action alive and it appeared to make Lil Wayne's appeal of the dismissal of the four central claims all the more important.
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