A federal judge has dismissed claims that a prominent Philadelphia lawyer brought against Amazon and Roc Nation over an allegedly surreptitiously recorded conversation where the attorney appeared to make critical comments about his client, who is the judge at the center of rapper Meek Mill’s probation violation case.

U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Wednesday dismissed attorney A. Charles Peruto Jr.’s actions alleging violations of the Pennsylvania and Federal Wiretap Acts and seeking to have the audio files returned. The rulings in Peruto v. Roc Nation dismissed the case at the summary judgment phase.

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