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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 original

lawsuit.

Parks’ initial lawsuit had been dismissed on

summary judgment in 1999. Parks will now attempt to prove her case against the

platinum plus selling rap group.

According to the more recent court ruling, the

"artists sought to play on the relationship between Ms. Parks and the phrase

"’move to the back of the bus.’”

Parks’ high profile attorney, Johnny Cochran,

presented new evidence claiming that Parks had approved an album of gospel recordings

titled Verity Records Presents: A Tribute to Mrs. Rosa Parks and that

she received reports of consumers seeking

to purchase the tribute album, but instead accidentally bought Outkasts’ Aquemeni

album, due to the prominent promotion of the "Rosa Parks" song.

Cochran presented 21 affidavits from people who

said they had been "fooled into buying the rap album out of a belief that

it had something to do with Parks and the civil rights movement."

When the defendants claimed that the First Amendment

allowed them to name their song titles whatever they choose, the 6th Circuit

panel disagreed, stating “the First Amendment cannot permit anyone who

cries ‘artist’ to have carte blanche when it comes to naming and advertising

his or her works, art though it may be.”

The judges said that using Rosa Parks’ name was

a "good marketing move" since "’Rosa Parks’ was likely

to sell far more recordings than ‘Back of the Bus.’”