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In re Fyre Festival Litigation

  1. December 21, 2020

    Fyre Festival Ticket Holder Wants 2nd Shot At Class Cert.

    A 2017 Fyre Festival ticket buyer has urged a federal judge to reconsider an earlier refusal to certify a proposed class action against the infamous event's convicted co-founder and allow him to lead that class, arguing the previous ruling against him was based on key misunderstandings.

  2. December 03, 2020

    Fyre Festival Attendees, Ticket Holders Lose Cert. Bid

    A New York federal judge has refused to certify a class of ticket holders and attendees of the ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival, finding that the proposed class representative may not adequately represent a class asserting a variety of state law claims because he is a foreign national residing in the Netherlands.

  3. June 22, 2020

    Fyre Fest Attendees Seek $7.5M From Founder

    A proposed class of ticket holders of the ill-fated 2017 Fyre Festival, including some who were "stranded" in the Bahamas, have asked a New York federal judge to order imprisoned festival founder Billy McFarland to pay them $7.5 million.

  4. November 07, 2019

    Fyre Fest Attendees Can't Rekindle Claims Against Organizers

    Allowing ticket holders for the doomed Fyre Festival to continue to litigate their $100 million fraud claims against festival organizers Ja Rule and Grant Margolin would be a waste of time, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday.

  5. October 11, 2019

    Fyre Fest Ticket Holders Want Ja Rule Back In $100M Suit

    Just when rapper Ja Rule thought he was out, jilted Fyre Festival ticket holders suing for $100 million are trying to pull him back in, claiming new information shows he was promoting the doomed festival even as he knew it was destined for spectacular failure.

  6. August 22, 2019

    Exec Slams Fyre Fest Attendees' Bid To Pull Him Back In Suit

    The chief marketing officer of the bankrupt company behind the disastrous Fyre Festival has blasted Geragos & Geragos APC's attempt to rope him back into a $100 million proposed class action, claiming the firm made "knowingly false statements" when it accused him of lying about representing himself.

  7. August 08, 2019

    Fyre Festival Attendees Want Exec Back In $100M Suit

    Jilted ticket holders suing for $100 million over the disastrous Fyre Festival have asked a New York federal court to revive claims against the chief marketing officer of its bankrupt parent company, saying he got off easy because he claimed to represent himself but really had a lawyer all along.

  8. July 10, 2019

    Ja Rule Off The Hook, For Now, In $100M Fyre Fest Suit

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed all of the claims facing Ja Rule and the chief marketing officer of Fyre Festival over the Bahamas music fest's infamous failure, though he's letting attendees take another shot at some claims against the Queens-born rapper.

  9. September 10, 2018

    Ja Rule Says Boasts Don't Tie Him To $100M Fyre Fest Row

    Ja Rule urged a New York federal court to free him from a $100 million putative class action filed by attendees of the failed Fyre Festival, arguing that neither his boasts on social media nor video of a toast he gave to organizers are enough to hold him personally liable.

  10. March 13, 2018

    Geragos Firm To Lead Class In Consolidated Fyre Fest Suits

    A New York federal judge overseeing five suits against the backers of Fyre Festival, a proposed music festival in the Bahamas that was cancelled at the last minute, consolidated the cases Tuesday and appointed Geragos & Geragos APC to lead the class action.