A federal judge has approved Cardi B’s victory at a recent civil trial in Santa Ana, California where she was found not guilty of using the portion of the plaintiff’s back tattoo on the cover of her mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1

A federal judge has approved Cardi B’s victory at a recent civil trial in Santa Ana, California where she was found not guilty of using the portion of the plaintiff’s back tattoo on the cover of her mixtape Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1.

According to Rolling Stone, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney ruled on Wednesday that Kevin Brophy’s request to overturn the Oct. 21 jury verdict was filed too late and lacked legitimacy. Previously, Brophy filed a $5 million lawsuit against Cardi B, claiming his back tattoo had been misappropriated and later asked the jury to overturn their verdict because they allegedly misapplied the law, claiming it was up to the court to correct their error.

In his ruling, Carney stated that Brophy’s lawyers failed to preserve their right to file the Rule 50 motion before the case was submitted to the jury for deliberation. “The untimeliness of Brophy’s Rule 50 is reason enough to deny it. But the motion also wants for substantive merit,” he wrote in a statement.