T.I. & Tiny Harris O.M.G. Girlz Case Replace: Choose Amends Verdict

T.I. and Tiny Harris could also be headed to court docket once more on behalf of their daughter after a choose revised the decision handed down final 12 months.

In a major replace to the long-running authorized battle between MGA Leisure and Clifford “T.I.” Harris, Tameka “Tiny” Harris and the O.M.G. Girlz LLC, a choose has amended the ruling to award the OMG Girlz $17.8 million versus the $71.4 million they had been initially awarded.

In response to Law360, the jury decided seven of the corporate’s O.M.G. Dolls infringed the commerce costume and misappropriated the identify, likeness or id of the OMG Girlz pop group T.I. co-owns. To be particular, the court docket had npw granted the Harris household and the O.M.G. Girlz $17,872,252. In a court docket doucment obtained by AllHipHop, the revision was reportedly primarily based on earnings and customary regulation misappropriation.

“Upon consideration of the proof the Courtroom grants disgorgement of earnings of $17, 872,252 beneath widespread regulation misappropriations, however doesn not award punitive damages. Additional, the Courtroom declines to disgorge earnings or improve the award beneath the Laham act,” the doc learn.

T.I. and Tiny Harris, who filed the lawsuit towards MGA Leisure in 2020, claimed the dollmaker unlawfully profited from designs and ideas tied to their lady group, the O.M.G. Girlz. The group, based by Tiny Harris, had a singular and colourful aesthetic, which they alleged was straight mirrored in MGA’s line of dolls.

Earlier this 12 months after the unique verdict within the case was dominated, Tiny spoke about how the lawsuit represented far more than a authorized win for the group throughout an Instagram Livestream outdoors the courthouse.

“We did this for the town, we did this for the tradition,” a jubilant Tiny started. “It was a hell of a battle. This battle been began in 2020 and it’s now ‘24; we couldn’t be extra completely happy.”

She additionally expressed her gratitude to the jury for believing their story. “I truthfully wished to come back on right here to say we wished to thank the jurors for simply seeing us by means of this man and simply believing in what we stated,” she added. “They heard our story they usually knew we wasn’t mendacity.”