Chris Brown’s attorney, Mark Geragos, made an appeal to have some top secret LAPD documents released in relation to the Rihanna beating case. The documents were regarding the leak of the beating photo to TMZ.

The appeal has just been rejected today:

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by Chris Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos who is seeking access to confidential LAPD files involving the illegal leak of a photograph of a badly beaten Rihanna.

Geragos appealed to California’s highest court after a lower court judge, Judge Patricia Schnegg, denied his motion to access to LAPD personnel records. Gergaos was seeking the records hoping to find the source of the leak of the photo of Rihanna taken after she was assaulted, allegedly by Brown last February.

Chris Brown will be back in court for a preliminary hearing on Monday afternoon. At the conclusion of the preliminary hearing, the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to proceed to a jury trial. Rihanna was subpoened to testify at the hearing, and her attorney has said that she will comply with the subpoena and be a cooperative witness for the prosecution.

Brown,20, is charged with threatening and beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna in Los Angeles this past February.

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A neighbor of Rihanna’s is suing her over claims that she’s allowing guests to park on his lawn.

Christian Moeller has sued the songbird and the owner of the house she rents for invasion of privacy, nuisance, fraud and trespass, claiming Rihanna’s visitors are driving through his yard to get to her parking area or are leaving their cars on his lot.

Stephen Yacobian recently remodeled the hoppin’ home, “effectively eliminating” its parking accommodations, states the lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.

“Such parking area does not allow even one vehicle to be parked entirely on Defendant’s property,” Moeller charges. And yet Rihanna often has “chauffeured vehicles that park or idle on Plaintiff’s property for hours at a time,” use his driveway to turn around and drive through his yard en route to what is now Rihanna’s too-small parking lot.

Moeller is also bugged by the cameras on Rihanna’s property, a newly constructed privacy wall and some tall bamboo plants that he says block his city views, according to the complaint.

The plaintiff is seeking unspecified damages, legal expenses and the revocation of a former agreement he had with Yacobian to let cars pass through his yard—a deal he made back when such things were a rarer occurrence.

Yacobian has said that the lawsuit is “without merit.”

What do you think? Frivolous?

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R&B singer Rihanna signing autographs and taking photos with fans as she leaves her New York city hotel. The singer exited the hotel wearing a black dress with a gorilla’s face on the front.

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At Game 4 of the NBA Finals in Orlando on Thursday night, the real action took place in the stands: Rihanna and Chris Brown were both there.

“They requested to sit together” at the matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic, says a source. But when game time arrived, the one-time lovers opted for seats in separate sections. During half time, each retreated to separate private lounges, according to eyewitnesses.

The outing comes just two days after Rihanna, 21, was subpoenaed to appear in court to testify in the assault case against Brown, 20, and a day after she was out with Aubrey “Drake” Griffin, the Canadian rapper to whom she’s been linked.

Reps for the NBA and the singers had no comment.

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Los Angeles prosecutors have subpoenaed Rihanna to appear in court to testify in the assault case against Chris Brown, her lawyer tells PEOPLE.

The “Umbrella” singer, 21, was served in person Tuesday in Los Angeles with the subpoena for the June 22 hearing in Superior Court, her lawyer Donald Etra confirms.

Brown, 20, has pleaded not guilty to two felony counts following his alleged Feb. 8 assault on Rihanna.

“Rihanna was served at my office by L.A. DA investigators,” Etra says. “If the preliminary hearing indeed goes forward, she is now legally required to be there, she will be there, and will answer all questions truthfully.”

The purpose of the hearing is to determine if there’s enough evidence to bind Brown over to trial. Rihanna will also be subject to cross-examination by Brown’s attorney Mark Geragos. The case could end any time with a plea deal, making the hearing unnecessary.

“Rihanna’s testimony can make or break the case,” says L.A. criminal defense attorney Jeffery Rubenstein, who’s not involved with the case. “Her willingness to testify and be truthful about what happened is a step closer to convicting Brown. On the other hand, if prosecutors fail to present a case, Geragos can seek to dismiss or reduce the charges on the spot.”

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Rihanna, and her hair, arrive to a flurry of photogs and flashes on Sunday atLos Angeles’s LAX airport.

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