Attorneys who represented a worker alleging he was undercompensated for supervising a renovation project at the Malibu home of Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, are asking a judge to dismiss claims filed against their law firm.

Handyman Tony Saxon maintained in his initial Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit that the 49-year-old musician agreed to pay him $20,000 per week under a 2021 agreement. However, Ye provided only one $20,000 payment in addition to $100,000 intended for construction costs. Judge Brock T. Hammond previously upheld a March 11 jury decision that awarded Saxon $140,000.

Ye, alongside his company, Shore Drive Holdings LLC, launched a separate lawsuit targeting Saxon and West Coast Trial Lawyers APLC, the firm representing the handyman. Their amended complaint filed July 10 asserts that a $1.8 million lien placed on Ye's property in January 2024 was a "fabrication and the defendants who prepared it, verified it and stood behind it knew as much."

Ye's suit calls the lien a "pressure device recorded to cloud the property's title and to coerce payment of the unrelated employment claims (Saxon and West Coast) were pursuing in the underlying action."

Ye is asking that the lien be declared void, and he is also seeking $2.27 million in damages.

On Wednesday, attorneys for Saxon and West Coast filed court papers with Hammond asking that the portion of the complaint pertaining to the law firm be dismissed. The West Coast lawyers state that the Ye pleadings are "uncertain, ambiguous and unintelligible" and improperly combine multiple parties and theories without apportioning conduct, making it impossible to discern which allegations are directed at which defendants.

The West Coast attorneys also contend that all of Ye's claims are barred by the litigation privilege because they arise from "protected petitioning activity."

In his lawsuit filed in September 2023, Saxon maintained he was forced to sleep on the mansion floor while acting as a security guard and fired in November 2021 for not complying with Ye's "dangerous requests" that could cause the plaintiff to be injured.

Saxon said he often complained to Ye about various dangers during the remodeling.