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Jermaine Jevon Howard v. Shawn Jay-Z Carter

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, No. 22-1557 · judgment November 17, 2022


Certiorari denied · October 2, 2023
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

The schedule of a phenomenal, superstar U.S. Rapper and Executive has to be a tiring, stressful one. Stress and loss of rest has to intensify with the addition of Executive duties such as business workshops and classes to properly run businesses such as Rocawear Clothing, 40/40 Club, Armand de Brignac Champagne and others. The transition must have been extensive including interviews, promotional events and concert tours for a gentleman who has less than a high school graduates education. Within the midst of becoming disciplined and prepared to take on the world, this Great M.C. would require assistance from others with business preparations, liaisons to assist with balancing schedules and songwriters to assist with lyrics and ideas to create Phenomenal Hits repeatedly in a short amount of time!

  1. With other Copyright Owners listed on U.S. Copyright Office, Copyright Registrations, is it possible that Shawn Jay-Z Carter received needed assistance with composing lyrics for songs, he made into hits? And if so, is it possible Shawn Jay-Z Carter with so many new business ventures may have forgotten to compensate a person who assisted him with composing lyrics for songs a songwriter which is listed under a Pseudonym on U.S. Copyright Registrations jointly owned by the songwriter, Shawn Jay-Z Carter and others?

  2. Did Shawn Jay-Z Carter have a legal duty owed to the Petitioner, and did he breach of that duty? Given the Petitioner’s sufferance of an injury and proof that Defendant’s breach caused the injury (typically

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Jermaine Jevon Howard

For respondent
Alexander Benjamin Spiro
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 02 2023
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Aug 30 2023
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
  3. Aug 22 2023
    Waiver of right of respondent Shawn Jay-Z Carter to respond filed.
  4. Mar 15 2023
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 28, 2023)