Fetty Wap Assistant’s $1.1 Million Defamation Award Toppled

Rapper Fetty Wap’s record label, RGF Productions Inc., got a $1.1 million defamation award in favor of a former assistant for the musician overturned after a New Jersey appeals court found the plaintiff’s attorney improperly asked the jurors to put themselves in her shoes in determining damages.

It’s improper for an attorney to invoke “the golden rule"—do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you—because it encourages jurors “to depart from neutrality,” the court said.

Counsel for the plaintiff, Shawna Morgan, also asked the jury to award punitive damages, although the jury wasn’t authorized to do so ...