Our Litigators of the Week are Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partners Scott Edelman and Deborah Stein and associate Nathaniel Bach. The trio extinguished a $100 million suit against Universal Music Group after a 2008 warehouse fire reportedly destroyed master recordings by music legends including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Buddy Holly, Sammy Davis Jr., Joni Mitchell, the Police and Nirvana.

On April 6, U.S. District Judge John Kronstadt in the Central District of California tossed the entire six-count amended complaint, which was originally brought by or on behalf of recording artists Tom Petty, Tupac Shakur, Soundgarden, Steve Earle, and Hole.

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