COURT OVERTURNS $1.5 MILLION JUDGMENT<\/p>\n
Juno-Award winner and rap\/reggae singer Snow is off the hook after a court in New York overturned a jury’s order to pay $1.5 million (U.S.) to his former friend and associate.<\/p>\n
In 1994, DJ Marvin Prince sued Snow, who was born Darrin O’Brien, for breach of agreement and damages claiming he was never fully compensated for his role in turning O’Brien into a star.<\/p>\n
Snow’s 1993 debut, 12 Inches Of Snow, sold three million copies worldwide and his smash hit ”Informer” spent seven weeks at Number 1.<\/p>\n
His troubled life inspired much of the album, which was released as he finished serving a year in jail for assault. <\/p>\n
In 1997, an 11-member jury awarded Prince $2.1 million, an approximation of the value of his services. At the time, Snow’s managers and record label were based in New York.<\/p>\n
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That award was later reduced through a motion filed by Michael S. Elkin, a lawyer Snow retained the day after the decision.<\/p>\n
The court found the jury’s original figure ”excessive and against the weight of evidence.” Prince appealed the decision to overturn the jury verdict and Snow counter-appealed.<\/p>\n
The higher court recently dismissed Prince’s appeal and set aside all claims against Snow, said Elkin. The matter, he said, is now closed.<\/p>\n
”This was a dark cloud hanging over his head for many years,” his manager, Paula Danylevich, said yesterday. ”This allows him to get on with his life.”<\/p>\n
Snow, 29, is in a Toronto studio working on his fourth album for release in the Asian market, she added.<\/p>\n
He recently co-starred in a feature film shot in Vancouver and is sorting out his immigration problems in the United States.<\/p>\n
His criminal record has prevented him from entering the country.<\/p>\n
Prince and his lawyer could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COURT OVERTURNS $1.5 MILLION JUDGMENT Juno-Award winner and rap\/reggae singer Snow is off the hook after a court in New York overturned a jury’s order to pay $1.5 million (U.S.) to his former friend and associate. In 1994, DJ Marvin Prince sued Snow, who was born Darrin O’Brien, for breach of agreement and damages claiming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,36,16,11,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}