Isaac Hayes' son plans to modify lawsuit over classic song played at Trump rallies, RNC reveals
Source: Law & Crime
Sep 7th, 2024, 11:53 am
The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday asked the federal judge who recently blocked the Trump campaign from playing the 1966 Sam and Dave classic Hold on Im Coming at rallies to allow more time for a response to the lawsuit since the plaintiff, the son of song co-writer Isaac Hayes, plans on amending the lawsuit in the coming days.
As Law&Crime has reported, Hayes estate and son Isaac Hayes III publicly threatened to sue for copyright infringement in August.
Today, on the anniversary of my father @isaachayes death we have repeatedly asked Donald Trump, the RNC and his representatives not to use Hold on Im Coming written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter during campaign rallies but yet again, in Montana they used it, Hayes III wrote on X. Donald Trump represents the worst in integrity and class with his disrespect and sexual abuse of Women and racist rhetoric.
We will now deal with this very swiftly, he added. Hayes III, Isaac Hayes Enterprises LLC, and attorney James Walker then followed through on the lawsuit threat days later, with Walker alluding to the Ten Commandments in comment about the case against Trump, the Trump campaign, Turning Point USA, the NRA, and the American Conservative Union.
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Full headline: Would serve little purpose: Isaac Hayes son plans to modify lawsuit over classic song played at Trump rallies, RNC reveals while asking judge for emergency relief
Link to RNC FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25103662-hayes
Link to RNC FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25103662/hayes.pdf
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(15,442 posts)...the rnc about what their opponent plans to do?
onenote
(43,883 posts)and it would not do them any good, and incredible harm, to misrepresent the plaintiff's agreement to the motion.
Forcing Hayes to file a separate pleading expressing his lack of opposition would only create an additional legal expense for Hayes.
LauraInLA
(901 posts)onenote
(43,883 posts)My best guess -- and only a guess -- is that it is to add new allegations to bolster its claim for relief against some of the other defendants.
sl8
(16,137 posts)TPUSA did not host or sponsor Defendant Trumps speech or appearance at any of the noted events, the filing said. Plaintiffs should have instead named Turning Point Action, Inc.a separate 501(c)(4) nonprofit entity that was responsible for hosting Mr. Trump at and sponsoring the noted events.