Tennessee’s Nashville.According to a court filing on Monday, Daryl Hall and John Oates have reached a private conclusion in their arbitration of their disagreement over a Hall & Oates commercial relationship. This came after information of their disagreement was made public in court documents filed in a 2023 lawsuit filed by Hall against Oates.
The lawsuit got a final arbitration verdict, according to Hall’s attorneys, who filed a proposed order asking Nashville Chancellor Russell Perkins, the judge, to dismiss the case in Monday’s status report. The latest public filing of the lawsuit was in December 2023, and Perkins asked Hall’s lawyers to provide an update in mid-July.
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When the arbitration procedure was completed is unknown. Additionally, information on the arbitration’s outcome was kept secret. The two have collaborated on songs for over 50 years, including successes from the 1970s and 1980s including Maneater, Rich Girl Kiss on My List, and I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do).
Hall’s lawyer Robb Harvey chose not to comment. A request for comment from The Associated Press was not immediately answered by Oates’s representatives.
In the case’s 2023 documents, Hall claimed Oates of deceiving and blindsiding him, claiming that their relationship and his faith in Oates had soured. Oates retorted that he was extremely offended by Hall’s divisive, absurd, and false remarks against him.
The sale of Oates’ interest in Whole Oats Enterprises LLP to Primary Wave IP Investment Management LLC was put on hold by the judge. According to a court ruling, Whole Oats owns important Hall & Oates assets like trademarks, the rights to one’s own name and likeness, record royalties, and website and social media assets.
When Hall filed the complaint in November 2023, requesting that the judge halt Oates’ sale so that private arbitration could start, the disagreement became public.
During arbitration in early November 2023, Hall provided a damning description of their connection, which was later made public in the lawsuit later that same month. It claims that by pressuring him to sell his share while claiming to Hall’s acquaintances that he wanted to keep his ownership, Oates and his team committed the ultimate partnership treachery.
Oates said in his own statement that he was disappointed by what his longtime partner had said and that Hall’s claims that Oates had broken their agreement and gone behind his back were untrue. Oates refused to elaborate, claiming that even if Hall didn’t, he still had a duty to keep information confidential.
Oates refused to comment on the court case and told The Associated Press last year that he hasn’t spoken to Hall. He didn’t think he would ever see Hall & Oates again.
Personally, I don’t think that will occur. I have no plans to do that. You can find out what Dale Hall thinks. But no, in my opinion, he says.
In February, the Times questioned Hall about whether the ship had set sail on repairing the two’s relationship.
Hall informed the news source that the ship had reached the ocean’s bottom. I’m somewhat accustomed to it because I’ve had a lot of surprises, letdowns, and betrayals throughout my life.
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This report was supplied by Maria Sherman in New York.
