Legal Opinion
Muhammad-Ali v. Final Call, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 10, 2016No. 15-2963PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
Carpenters have a saying: measure twice, cut once. This litigation might have been averted if that adage had been observed here. In 1984, Jesus Muhammad-Ali painted a portrait of thie leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. In 2013, Ali sued The Final Call, a newspaper that describes itself as the “propagation arm of the Nation of Islam,” for copyright infringement. The Final Call, it turned out, admittedly had sold over a hundred copies of Ali’s Farrakhan portrait. Ali nonetheless lost his case after a bench trial. He now appeals, arguing that the district court…
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