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Mariah Carey Seeks Legal Fee Reimbursement in Dismissed ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’ Case

Mariah Carey seeks legal fee payment reimbursement in recently dismissed 'All I Want for Christmas' lawsuit in the amount of more than $180,000.

“The court should consider that [Vance was] seeking, among other things, $20 million in damages, injunctive relief, and even the destruction of all copies of ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You,’” Carey’s attorneys stated, per Billboard. “Considering such drastic requested relief, and the results obtained, defendants were perfectly justified in incurring the aforementioned attorney’s fees to successfully oppose plaintiffs’ motion.” “Plaintiffs have not met their burden of showing that [the songs by] Carey and Vance are substantially similar under the extrinsic test,” the judge ultimately ruled.

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