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Miley Cyrus ‘Flowers’ Lawsuit: Judge Skeptical of Her Bid to Escape Copyright Case

Miley Cyrus seems unlikely to immediately escape a copyright lawsuit claiming her hit “Flowers” infringed the Bruno Mars song “When I Was Your Man.”

A Los Angeles federal judge “repeatedly indicated” at a live court hearing Monday that he would likely deny a motion to dismiss the case filed last year by attorneys for Cyrus, according to a report by Rolling Stone. In that motion, the singer had argued that the plaintiff in the case – not Mars himself, but an financial entity called Tempo Music Investments that bought out the rights of one of his co-writers – lacked the necessary legal “standing” to pursue its claims. In her first response in November, attorneys for Miley said that the total lack of involvement from Mars and the song’s two other co-writers was not some procedural quirk in the case, but rather a “fatal flaw” that required the outright dismissal of the lawsuit.

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