{"id":2357,"date":"2025-08-28T14:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:12:34","slug":"damon-dash-scores-a-courtroom-victory-as-judge-refuses-to-reopen-photographers-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/?p=2357","title":{"rendered":"Damon Dash Scores a Courtroom Victory as Judge Refuses to Reopen Photographer\u2019s Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Judge Closes the Door on Another Photo Lawsuit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his latest legal triumph, Damon Dash has successfully defended himself in court once again. A federal judge in California has refused to revive a lawsuit from photographer Monique Bunn, who was seeking to reopen a case over alleged misuse of her photo archive. The judge ruled that Bunn\u2019s arguments were a repeat of previously dismissed claims and lacked new evidence to justify reconsideration. This effectively ends her legal pursuit for damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monique Bunn had initially sued Dash, claiming he kept and used over 100,000 of her photographs without permission after collaborating on a shoot for his fashion brand\u2014seeking an estimated $50 million in damages. Dash countered that the images in question were not even on the CDs at issue. A prior jury found in Dash\u2019s favor, and this latest ruling reaffirms that outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Closes the Door on Another Photo Lawsuit In his latest legal triumph, Damon Dash has successfully defended himself in court once again. A federal judge in California has refused to revive a lawsuit from photographer Monique Bunn, who was seeking to reopen a case over alleged misuse of her photo archive. The judge ruled&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,52],"tags":[1135,1136,1133,1134],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","category-trending-now","tag-damon-dash-legal-win","tag-dash-court-victory-2025","tag-monique-bunn-lawsuit-dismissed","tag-photo-archive-lawsuit-dash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verifiedviral.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}