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Ed Sheeran Protests Loquacious Lawsuit

October 17, 2016

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Lawyers defending singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran against a copyright suit complained to the judge, not that the suit lacked merit, but that it was too voluminous and rambling to make a clear case at all. The $20 million lawsuit was filed against Sheeran by songwriters who claim he ripped off their song for his hit, “Photograph.” But, Sheeran’s lawyers complained, “Defying the most fundamental pleading requirement of providing short, concise and plain statements, the First Amended Complaint consists of 44 sprawling pages of prolix, repetitive, argumentative and scandalous allegations, made mostly on ‘information and belief.’” The complaint “makes sweeping, generalized allegations – in 156 paragraphs, some of which go on for pages and contain upwards of 25 or 30 different sentences – against eleven distinct Defendants.” Responding to the complaint in any meaningful way, they say, “is impossible.”

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