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PARKS RIDES ON: BMG, Arista and Outkast haven't heard the last of Rosa Parks yet, it seems, as her claim against them has been allowed to go forward by the US Supreme Court. Parks, you'll recall, was miffed that the band used her name as a songtitle on an album whose ''profanity, racial slurs and derogatory language directed at women'' handicapped her future business dealings, caused emotional distress and tainted her legacy.

Meanwhile, we're delighted to learn from rocktober that Outkast love the Smiths and that Andre 3000 wished he'd written Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loves Me. Probably not as much as he wishes he'd not written Rosa Parks, mind.

While we're doing the court round-up: Glenn Campbell pleads 'not guilty' to all the charges against him - it was all Lexapro's fault, he says; A Rhode Island grand jury has issued indictments rising from the Great White's firework nightclub razing - former Great White tour manager Dan Biechele, and club owners Michael and Jeffrey Derderian were each charged with 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter with criminal negligence, a felony charge, and 100 counts of involuntary manslaughter in violation of a misdemeanor. None of the band members face any further action; and George Clinton's brief is fighting the possession charges by claiming an illegal search, which would appear at first glance to sit uncomfortably with the earlier reports that George told the cop he had a pocket full of cocaine.