Five years after Rosa Parks died, Outkast reflected on her lawsuit against them. During a 2010 interview with Creative Loafing, Outkast and the crew who helped make "Aquemini" spoke more in-depth about what transpired between them and Rosa's council. LaFace Records, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003), was a lawsuit filed by attorney Gregory J Reed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo Outkast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of Outkast's 1998 Rosa Parks and rap duo OutKast have settled a lawsuit in which the civil rights pioneer accused the group of wrongly using her name in a song title, her guardian said yesterday (April 14). She brings suit against LaFace Records, a record producer, and OutKast, a "rap" (or "hip-hop") music duo, as well as several other named affiliates, for using her name as the title of their song, Rosa Parks. According to Billboard, Parks filed a lawsuit against Outkast in 1999 alleging defamation and trademark infringement because they used her name without permission in “Rosa Parks.” The song is On April 15, 2005, the case was settled with OutKast and their label admitting to no wrongdoing but paying an undisclosed cash settlement and agreeing to work with the Rosa and Raymond Parks US civil rights icon Rosa Parks has won the right in court to proceed with her case against rap duo OutKast for using her name as the title of a hit song. The US Supreme Court allowed a court Civil rights figurehead Rosa Parks filed suit against Outkast |and laFaceRecords on Wednesday, March 31, asking for 25,000 in damages and to have hername removed from all of their products. The 1999 lawsuit alleged defamation and trademark infringement because the Grammy-winning group OutKast used Parks' name without her permission in the song title "Rosa Parks." The chorus is: "Ah-ha, hush that fuss. Parks, who did not authorize the use of her name, brought suit against OutKast, record producers LaFace (defendant), and record companies Arista Records (Arista) (defendant) and BMG Entertainment (BMG) (defendant). After a federal appeals court ruled in May that Rosa Parks could appeal a lawsuit she filed against Outkast over their hit song that uses her name in the title, a judge has reinstated most of the Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 26, 1956. Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama. That small act of OutKast and Rosa Parks have finally settled a longstanding lawsuit stemming from Park’s objection to the rap duo using her name in a song title. filed a second suit in August 2004 against If the only thing Rosa Parks did was refused to give up her seat. She did that as part of a broader effort, of which she had been a part since childhood (her father was a civil rights activist, and in the early years of the movement she was involved with investigating sexual assault and rape of women of color, leading organizing efforts, among other things). A federal judge in Detroit had dismissed Parks' lawsuit in 1999 over the song "Rosa Parks," saying Outkast's use of her name was protected by free speech, and the group did not need to compensate her. Federal judge rejects lawsuit by civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks against Outkast, a rap group, and its producers; Parks contended that group had defamed her and had violated her 'right of Rosa Parks and the music group OutKast have settled a 1999 lawsuit over an OutKast song that used Parks’ name in a title. OutKast and their record labels will work with the Rosa and Raymond In December 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal by the hip-hop duo OutKast and their record label affiliates. By denying OutKast’s petition for review, the justices let stand an appellate court ruling that reinstated portions of Rosa Parks’ lawsuit against the musicians. In effect, the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the [] Court OKs Rosa Parks' lawsuit against OutKast. The Supreme Court allows the civil rights icon to reinstate her suit over the duo's hit song ''Rosa Parks'' Rosa Parks filed a lawsuit against OutKast for using her name on their album "Aquemini" on this day in rap history. BORN X RAISED + WWE | GET NOTIFIED. $20 OFF ORDERS $100+ WITH CODE 'COMPLEXSHOP25'
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