LOS ANGELES, July 3 -- Zonnique Pullins was in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles when the jury confirmed what she had believed for years: that toy manufacturer MGA Entertainment had built a doll empire, in part, on the image of a girl group she co-founded as a teenager. The foreperson read the September 2024 verdict and Pullins began to cry. She later described the moment a juror raised her hand to affirm that the OMG Girlz possessed a protectable trade dress. "When the judge asked if we had a memorable trade dress and everyone raised their hands, I got so emotional," she said.

That jury awarded T.I. and Tiny $71.5 million.

What followed stripped the number down twice. U.S. District Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of Calif...