NEW YORK — A federal judge has sided with Nelly in a now-dismissed lawsuit filed against him by a fellow St. Lunatics member, who claimed he had been denied writing credit and royalties for several songs on the rapper's solo debut album "Country Grammar."

The judge's report, filed last week in the Southern District of New York, agreed with a motion filed by Nelly's lawyers that band member Ali Jones' claims against Nelly were too old to be brought to court — in copyright cases that's three years from the date of the alleged violation — and were also "legally frivolous."

The report recommended a district judge financially sanction Jones' lawyers for filing the suit in the first place.

"Jones’s copyright ownership claim was groundless on its face from the time it was first asserted," Ma

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