In a recent development related to the music royalties of iconic artists Janis Joplin and Gordon Lightfoot, the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York issued key directives. The court handling, involving the estate of late music manager Albert Grossman and his wife Sally Grossman, has been remanded back to a surrogate’s court. The proceedings have been ordered to continue in Ulster County, New York – the residence of the famed music manager in Woodstock.
However, a parallel action was dismissed by the panel of circuit judges Jose Cabranes, Robert Sack and Myrna Perez, citing it as non-reviewable on appeal. This suggests that while some aspects of this legal issue remain up in the air, other facets have found resolute closure in this landmark legal tussle.