SAN FRANCISCO — This Christmas will be a merry one for a team of Nixon Peabody lawyers who secured a long-awaited victory on behalf of deceased rapper Notorious B.I.G.
Los Angeles-based partners Staci Riordan and Julian Petty won a complete dismissal of copyright infringement claims filed against the rapper’s estate. The order issued Tuesday by a New York federal judge held R&B artist Lee Hutson, formerly of The Impressions, doesn’t own the rights to a song Notorious B.I.G. sampled on his 1994 “Ready to Die” album. U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan of the Southern District of New York did not grant Hutson leave to amend.
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