Steve Earle has pulled out of a lawsuit against Universal Music Group that was filed by five artists last year over damage the artists’ musical recordings suffered in a 2008 fire that destroyed many assets in the company’s vaults.
With the withdrawal from the lawsuit earlier this month of the Tupac Estate and Soundgarden, and withdrawal last year of the group Hole, this leaves only the contested estate of Tom Petty.
Although a bitter legal dispute between Petty’s second wife, Dana York, and his two daughters from his earlier marriage was settled in December, they remain actively involved in the UMG lawsuit.
Plaintiff Steve Earle hereby dismissed without prejudice his individual claims and withdraws as a putative class representative” in the
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