{"id":246406,"date":"2005-01-08T15:48:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-08T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-by-record-company-for-aaliyah"},"modified":"2005-01-08T15:48:41","modified_gmt":"2005-01-08T20:48:41","slug":"appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-by-record-company-for-aaliyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2005\/01\/appeals-court-dismisses-lawsuit-by-record-company-for-aaliyah","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Dismisses Lawsuit By Record Company for Aaliyah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>The state Supreme Court&#8217;s Appellate Division dismissed the lawsuit brought by Blackground Records, which the singer partly owned, saying that in this case only the singer&#8217;s parents had a right to sue for her wrongful death. The court said the parents did so and were compensated. <\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>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 &#8220;asset&#8221;&#8221; of Blackground rather than an &#8220;&#8221;employee&#8221;&#8221; and therefore could sue. <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaliyah&#39;s record company cannot sue the video producer that arranged the airplane flight on which the singer and eight others crashed and died in the Bahamas in 2001, a Manhattan appeals court ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}