Less than two weeks after an Oregon producer claimed he wrote the chorus to one of this year’s biggest hits, the lawsuit is dead for now

Earlier this month, in a lawsuit filed in federal court, a producer and rapper from Oregon named Aviel Hirschfield claimed he was driving to Seattle last year in a friend’s borrowed Maybach when “I Follow Rivers,” the 2011 indie-pop classic by Swedish singer Lykke Li , started playing. It’d been a minute since he’d heard the song; Hirschfield said he was struck by how catchy its hook was. Hirschfield alleged that he then began writing a Lykke Li-inspired chorus that, less than six months later, would be featured, verbatim, on Drake ’s global hit “Janice STFU.”

It would be a stunning story if proven to be true, but that lawsuit is dead for now, raising serious questions about the nature — and legitimacy — of Hirschfield’s claims.…