Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development v. Target Corporation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “a federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the state in which it sits”
• explaining that many jurisdictions are “reluctant to extend the right of publicity to depictions of life-stories”
• “[A] federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the state in which it sits[]”
• “[A] federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the state in which it sits.”
• “[U]nder Erie, a federal court sitting in diversity applies the substantive law of the state in which it sits except in cases governed by federal law or the United States Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).