Rosa Parks won a decision
against Outkast today, after the Supreme Court refused to intervene in a lawsuit
over 1998’s#### song "Rosa Parks."
The 90-year-old
Parks alleges that Outkast violated her trademark rights and defamed her.
Parks and her lawyer,
famed attorney Johnnie Cochran, scored a victory earlier this year, when a portion
of the lawsuit was reinstated earlier this year.
Cochran claimed
that Parks had approved an album of gospel recordings titled Verity Records
Presents: A Tribute to Mrs. Rosa Parks
and that fans accidently bought Aquemeniinstead of the gospel album.
Cochran presented
21 affidavits at the last hearing from people who said they were "fooled
into buying the rap album out of a belief that it had something to do with Parks
and the civil rights movements."
OutKast argues
that the song is neither false advertising nor a violation of Parks’ publicity
rights and is protected by the First Amendment.
Parks made history
in December 1955 when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a
white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.
