Parks v. 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 album Aquemini. In March 1999, Rosa's lawyer, Gregory J. Reed, filed a lawsuit against LaFace Records, the label that Outkast was working with at the time, on behalf of the civil rights leader. That lawsuit was dismissed in district court later that same year, which spurred Gregory to team up with fellow attorney Johnnie Cochran and appeal. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND Reed’s claim arises from a lawsuit, settled over a decade ago, regarding the use of Parks’s name as the title of a song by the rap group OutKast.1 As part of the settlement in that lawsuit, LaFace Records made a one-time payment to Parks’s guardian ad litem, Dennis Archer, on behalf of Parks. 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). Rosa Parks, Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) and Antwan Patton (Big Boi) of the rap group OutKast, settled an ongoing six-year lawsuit in which Parks accused the duo of defamation and trademark infringement in relation the group’s 1998 Aquemini’s song entitled “Rosa Parks.” In the settlement, OutKast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Rosa Parks, a civil rights icon known for her refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, filed a lawsuit against LaFace Records, OutKast (a hip-hop music duo), and associated entities. The lawsuit was in response to OutKast's use of her name in the title of their song "Rosa Parks." The rap group OutKast settled a long-running legal dispute yesterday with Rosa Parks, whose actions helped start the civil rights movement, over the group's use of Mrs. Parks's name in a song. Representatives of Rosa Parks and hip hop duo OutKast have settled an ongoing legal battle that began in 1999 with a lawsuit filed by the American civil rights pioneer. 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 The title alluded to Rosa Parks (plaintiff), best known for her participation in a 1955 protest against segregated busses. However, the lyrics contained no references to Parks except for the repeated line “Move to the back of the bus,” which was intended as a symbolic boast of OutKast’s superiority over its competitors in the music industry. OutKast is the type of group to make the clubs get hyped-up/excited." [12] The initial lawsuit was dismissed. Parks' representation hired lawyer Johnnie Cochran to appeal the decision in 2001, but the appeal was denied on First Amendment grounds. In 2003, the Supreme Court allowed Parks' lawyers to proceed with the lawsuit. Rosa Parks, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Laface Records, et al., Defendants-appellees, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003) case opinion from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Parks, an activist in the 1950s, and the rap duo OutKast resolved a lawsuit over using her name on a CD released in 1998. Under the settlement, OutKast and co-defendants SONY BMG Music Entertainment, Arista Records LLC, and LaFace Records will help develop educational programs to "enlighten today's youth about the significant role Rosa Parks A few months later, Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005, at 92. “It was kind of weird, because I think Rosa Parks was misled,” said OutKast engineer Neal H. Pogue, to Creative Loafing, in 2010 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 This is the lead single from OutKast’s 1998 Aquemini. “Rosa Parks” may not have been the duo’s Rosa Parks' legal team filed a lawsuit against OutKast and LaFace Records in a court case 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' 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 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 []
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