Isley v. Motown Record Corp.

OPINION AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, three brothers, are “pop” singers and recording artists. A jury found facts in their favor establishing their right to the income from a “hit” song they recorded with instruments and voices called “It’s Your Thing”. This favorable verdict was based solely upon their own testimony in the course of which they repudiated their own earlier sworn testimony which clearly supported a contrary conclusion, characterizing such earlier conflicting testimony variously as a lie and false.1 Given this basis for the verdict, and there being persuasive…