Kanye West received’t be seeing his title in newspaper adverts anytime quickly—not less than not any associated to the Greenberg Traurig Regulation Agency. In keeping with courtroom docs obtained by AllHipHop, United States District Choose Analisa Torres discovered Greenberg Traurig didn’t make “diligent efforts” to find Kanye West. Consequently, Torres denied Greenberg Traurig’s request to make use of Los Angeles newspapers to search out him. As a substitute, Torres prompt they employed a personal investigator to find out Kanye West’s whereabouts.
The legislation agency did rating a small victory, nonetheless, and was granted an extension. Torres is now giving them till February 15 to correctly serve Ye with the required paperwork. The doc was dated Tuesday (January 24), that means they’ve roughly three weeks to tug it off.
Greenberg Traurig filed the request final week, arguing: “Publication of the Withdrawal Order’s contents in two Los Angeles-area newspapers, the place Kanye West seems to reside, may also apprise him of the Withdrawal Order. Given Ye’s public standing, publication of the Withdrawal Order will seemingly garner vital media consideration, leading to broader publication and supply a good higher probability of apprising Ye of the Order.”
Greenberg Traurig was representing Kanye West in his authorized battle towards Extremely Worldwide Music Publishing. In December 2022, they requested for an extension to serve West after dropping him as a consumer. The attorneys wanted to serve Ye earlier than shifting on from a copyright infringement lawsuit towards him. Torres granted Greenberg Traurig’s movement to withdraw as West’s counsel on November 30, 2022. Torres additionally instructed the legislation agency to personally serve their ex-client with a courtroom order by December 13, which they evidently might’t do.
