Michael Bolton faces £3.69m plagiarism pay-out

The US Supreme Court has refused to get involved in pop singer Michael Bolton's long battle to avoid a £3.69m judgment for allegedly stealing a 1960s Isley Brothers tune.

The court, without comment, let stand a federal appeals court ruling that Bolton must pay. His lawyers had asked the justices to consider whether a California court erred in sending the case to a jury in 1994.