Rap News Network - Hip-Hop News: Daz Dillinger Wins $25.5 Million
Daz Dillinger, CEO of DPG Recordz and former Death Row recording artist, has won over $25million in a lawsuit filed against Suge Knight's "Tha Row Records" Below is some exerts from the article regarding this incredible victory that is featured on the news page of DPG Recordz :
Rapper Daz Dillinger has won a $25.5 million default judgment against perpetually embattled rap mogul Marion Suge Knight and Death Row Records in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Now the question is whether Knight can get the judgment, which his attorney says could wipe out the pioneering rap record label; no renamed Tha Row, reversed.
In part, Knight and Death Row blame the default judgment on a blanket of fear that enveloped the record label following the killings of two of its employees last year. The uneasy atmosphere hampered communications between Knight and his in-house counsel, who apparently decided to stop coming to the office for a time, according to the lawyers declaration. The communications breakdown led to confusion and inattention regarding the defense of Dillingers suit, according to the documents. However, according to the case records, Dillingers attorneys believe that the blanket of fear is really a smoke of factual distortions designed to allow Knight to wriggle out of the jaws of their victory. A hearing on reconsidering and vacating the big reward is scheduled for Jan. 28
Meanwhile, Baker told me Friday that he believes he has a fighting chance of winning a reversal of the default judgment. For one thing, the award greatly exceeds the amount claimed in Dillingers breach of contract suit. $1 million, Baker said. Moreover, Knight claims he was never served with notice of the default judgment, Baker said.
