The state Supreme Court’s Appellate Division dismissed the lawsuit brought by Blackground Records, which the singer partly owned, saying that in this case only the singer’s parents had a right to sue for her wrongful death. The court said the parents did so and were compensated.
In a 4-0 ruling, the appeals judges reversed a lower court decision Justice Carol Edmead issued in May. Edmead ruled that Aaliyah, whose full name was Aaliyah Dana Haughton, was an “asset”” of Blackground rather than an “”employee”” and therefore could sue.
