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...parody of the Roy Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Justice David Souter's foot begins...
...Souter, writing for all nine Justices, said yes. Although a lower court must rule on whether Campbell appropriated too much or hijacked potential profits from a nonparodic rap version of the song, Souter held that a careful satirist can borrow from his victim without permission...
...Souter's opinion is intellectually frisky as well as legally timely. Parody's legitimacy, he ventures, lies in its "transformative" character, the same alchemy of turning the known into the new that informs all art. Campbell deserves credit both for "shedding light on an earlier work, and . . . creating a new one." Souter then makes an excursion into the social roots of humor: part of the parody's kick, he says, is its explosion of Orbison's unlikely premise of sidewalk romance, which the judge notes, ". . . ignores the ugliness of street life and the debasement that it signifies." Rebutting the argument...
Liberals fear that her friendship with conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, with whom she served on the Appeals Court, might move her away from her natural allies, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter. In an interview last year, Ginsburg said, "Nino is the best colleague I've ever had. He's so thoroughly engaging." In a widely quoted joke, Scalia once replied "Ruth Bader Ginsburg" when asked whether he would want to be stranded on a desert island with New York Governor Mario Cuomo or Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. At a dinner party at her house shortly after...
Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...