CARTER v. SWEENEY

Index No. 151067/19. Appeal No. 17087. Case No. 2022-01988.

212 A.D.3d 454 (2023)

182 N.Y.S.3d 75

2023 NY Slip Op 00150

Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., Professionally Known as Lil Wayne, Appellant, v. Ronald Sweeney et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided January 12, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan D. Davis, P.C., New York ( Jonathan D. Davis of counsel), for appellant.

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, P.C., New York ( John B. Harris of counsel), for respondents.

Concur—Kern, J.P., Oing, Scarpulla, Pitt-Burke, Higgitt, JJ.


Order, Supreme Court, New York County (James Edward D'Auguste, J.), entered April 16, 2021, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, granted defendants' motion to dismiss the first amended complaint in part, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff, a prominent rap artist and musician, alleges that defendant Sweeney, his former representative and lawyer of 13 years, fraudulently induced his retention by (1) representing that he was a lawyer...

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