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 Parks contends that Defendants have violated the Lanham Act because the Rosa Parks title misleads consumers into believing that the song is about her or that she is affiliated with the Defendants, or has sponsored or approved the Rosa Parks song and the Aquemini album. That lawsuit was dismissed in district court later that same year, which spurred Gregory to team up with fellow attorney Johnnie Cochran and appeal. However, the court once again upheld Outkast's right to name the song after Rosa. In 1999, Rosa Parks sued OutKast and LaFace Records over the song. The lawsuit alleged that the song misappropriated Parks' name and that Parks objected to some of the song's vulgar language. This appeal arises from the 1999 litigation between Rosa Parks and LaFace Records that those parties settled in 2005. The appellant here is Gregory Reed, one of Parks’s attorneys in that case. He alleges that he did not receive payment of his litigation costs, as mandated by the settlement agreement and by an August 2007 order from the 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. 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). 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 Parks alleged that the song violated the Lanham Act, which prohibited the misleading use of a person’s identity to sell a product, including the false appearance of celebrity sponsorship. Parks also alleged that her right of publicity had been violated. 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 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 The lawsuit would drag on for several years though it remains unclear if Rosa Parks truly felt disrespected by the song. Rosa Parks was the central figure in the Montgomery bus boycott. “Rosa Parks” is a song by OutKast, released as the first single from their 1998 album Aquemini. The song’s title comes from the civil rights activist Rosa Parks. In 1999, Rosa Parks sued OutKast and LaFace Records over the song. The lawsuit alleged that the song misappropriated Parks’ name, and also objected to some of [] Rosa Parks Lyrics: Uh-huh, uh-huh, baby, yeah, yeah / Cut it up, oh, oh, oh! Rosa Parks' legal team filed a lawsuit against OutKast and LaFace Records in a court case later known as Rosa Parks 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. Everybody move to the back of the bus." Parks, now 92, is represented by her guardian Dennis Archer. 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 [] 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' In 1998, the hip-hop group OutKast put out a coarse song titled "Rosa Parks," and she filed a lawsuit for defamation of character and false advertising because they used her name without permission. The case was eventually settled in 2005.
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