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Three-judge Ninth Circuit panel breathes new life into litigation arising from C. Delores Tucker's crusade against "gangsta rap"

Three-judge Ninth Circuit panel breathes new life into litigation arising from C. Delores Tucker's crusade against "gangsta rap": Tucker herself may now be dead, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today issued a decision that revives one claim alleging malicious prosecution against an attorney for Death Row Records. And one of the judges on the Ninth Circuit panel would have overturned the federal district court's grant of summary judgment against Tucker on additional claims.

Both the majority opinion and the opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part cannot resist quoting the following lyrics from Tupac Shakur's song "How Do U Want It?": "Delores Tucker, yous a muthaf*cka." See slip op. at pages 23 & 41.

This blog's coverage of a different aspect of this dispute, from April 2004, can be accessed here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).