A federal judge yesterday (December 17) dismissed a secondary wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G against the city of Los Angeles and various LAPD officers.

B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, was shot and killed on March 9, 1997 after a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

The rapper’s family sued the city of Los Angeles and its officers in 2002 claiming that convicted cops, Raphael Perez and David Mack, conspired  to kill B.I.G. with Deathrow Records founder Suge Knight.

The case would end in a mistrial in 2005 after it was revealed that city lawyers withheld evidence.

Biggie’s family would file the  secondary lawsuit in April this year  which charged Perez’s ex-partner, Nino Durden,  of also being involved in Biggie’s slaying and accused the LAPD of covering it up .

According to My Fox Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, who declared the 2005 mistrial, granted  a request made by  the city of Los Angeles and Perez on Monday because Biggie’s family did not file their secondary lawsuit within the necessary time frame gi ven by the court.

Lawyers on both sides of Biggie’s family's still-active wrongful death lawsuit reportedly agreed to enter into mediation presided over by a magistrate judge last week.

The second trial in that case which  was set for Frburay , has been delayed indefinitely as a result.