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Mariah Carey Says ‘All I Want For Christmas’ Lawsuit Accuser Must Repay Six-Figure Legal Bill
Mariah Carey says the man who sued her over “All I Want for Christmas is You" must repay a six-figure legal bill incurred by her and other defendants.
On Wednesday, that bill came due: Carey and the other defendants in the case told the judge they spent a combined $185,602.30 paying a team of high-priced lawyers to work a total of 295 hours to defeat the “frivolous” motions advanced by Vance’s attorneys. “Plaintiffs have not met their burden of showing that [the songs by] Carey and Vance are substantially similar under the extrinsic test,” Ramírez Almadani wrote at the time, using the legal term for how courts assess such allegations. In Wednesday’s filing, the defendants told the judge how much Vance should pay under that order – saying they had been charged reasonable or even below-market rates from elite music litigators at top law firms.
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