Originally written by Mike Diver · 9 December 2003
Parks' action is in relation to the rap duo's 1998 track entitled 'Rosa Parks'. The song did not misrepresent Ms Parks, who famously refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white man in 1955, but as her permission was not obtained for the title, Outkast and La Face could still lose out, and expensively so.
The Supreme Court threw out a claim that Outkast had defamed 90-year-old Parks' character, but allowed the claim that the duo had used her likeness without permission to stand. Neither Outkast or La Face have commented on this decision as yet.