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A Washington Supreme Court declined to reinstate a libel lawsuit that was initially filed by C. Delores Tucker, the deceased Civil Rights Activist and foe of the late Tupac Shakur.
The lawsuit was directed to a pair of Philadelphia papers--The Philadelphia Daily News and The Legal Intelligencer--for reporting that Tucker's sex life had suffered due to the lyrics of Shakur.
After the 1996 death of the rapper, Tucker sued his estate for his rhyming of her surname with an obscenity on a track from his 1996 album All Eyez on Me.
On the song "How Do U Want It?", Tupac rapped "Delores Tucker you's a motherf***er / Instead of trying to help a n***a you destroy your brother."
William Tucker, the spouse of the well-known rap critic, attempted to revive the libel suit, according to the Associated Press, but Pennsylvania state courts dismissed the case on Monday.
The legality of the case honed in on the context in which the word "consortium" was used in Tucker's original filing against Shakur.
The Philadelphia papers took loss of consortium to mean a loss in sexual activity, but Tucker said it meant an absence of other familial matters like the "family union."
Past libel suits against Time and Newsweek magazines were dismissed, as was the 1997 legal move against Shakur's estate.
Source: allhiphop.com
The lawsuit was directed to a pair of Philadelphia papers--The Philadelphia Daily News and The Legal Intelligencer--for reporting that Tucker's sex life had suffered due to the lyrics of Shakur.
After the 1996 death of the rapper, Tucker sued his estate for his rhyming of her surname with an obscenity on a track from his 1996 album All Eyez on Me.
On the song "How Do U Want It?", Tupac rapped "Delores Tucker you's a motherf***er / Instead of trying to help a n***a you destroy your brother."
William Tucker, the spouse of the well-known rap critic, attempted to revive the libel suit, according to the Associated Press, but Pennsylvania state courts dismissed the case on Monday.
The legality of the case honed in on the context in which the word "consortium" was used in Tucker's original filing against Shakur.
The Philadelphia papers took loss of consortium to mean a loss in sexual activity, but Tucker said it meant an absence of other familial matters like the "family union."
Past libel suits against Time and Newsweek magazines were dismissed, as was the 1997 legal move against Shakur's estate.
Source: allhiphop.com