D12 can breathe a sigh of relief now that a Michigan appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against them which claimed they cheated a bloke out of "millions of dollars".
D12's Eminem looking, um, happy that he's not being sued
Okay, so he wasn’t just any bloke, he was in fact, the bands manager, Kenyatta Hudson, 36, from Detroit, who claims he signed a contract to manage band member Ondre 'Swift' Moore from 1999 to 2003, and agreed a deal to manage D12 for approximately six months, but the rappers soon sacked him off when they signed with frontman Eminem's own record label in 1999.
Obviously this put the wind up Hudson who promptlypursued them over lost earnings. However, a hearing at Michigan's Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a previous court ruling stating that Hudson can't enforce his contract as Moore's manager because he was never licensed as a personnel agent as required under Michigan law.
The three-judge panel also dismissed Hudson's claims of unjust enrichment against the group. Hudson has spoken out about the ruling, insisting he will continue to pursue the case and write a book about his experiences.
He tells SOHH.com, "I think the courts are wrong in what they are saying. I haven't spoken with my lawyer yet, but this is going to have to go to higher ground because there's just no way for them to have found the way they did. I had a contract with D-12 and that is not being honoured. In America, we are supposed to honour contracts. I'm considering writing a book about my experience in all of this."
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