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May 18, 1981
Manager Albert Grossman files a $450,000 lawsuit against ex-client Bob Dylan in New York demanding back royalties and punitive damages. During their association, Dylan penned the country hits "It Ain't Me, Babe" and "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
Jun 24, 1981
Johnny Cash's former bass player and road manager, Marshall Grant, sues the Man In Black for $2.6 million
Jul 1, 1981
The estate of Lester Flatt sues Coors for using the late performer's likeness to sell beer. The suit is settled out of court three years later
Sep 8, 1981
Earl Scruggs duplicates the efforts of Lester Flatt's estate when he files a suit against Coors for using the likeness of Flatt & Scruggs in a beer commercial. Coors settles out of court in April 1984
Oct 22, 1981
Kenny Rogers files a breach of contract lawsuit against Capitol Records and Liberty
Mar 15, 1982
Colonel Tom Parker files suit against Elvis Presley's estate, seeking a share of a reported $25,000,000
Apr 8, 1982
Johnny Paycheck is slapped with a $3,000,000 lawsuit by a Casper, Wyoming, woman who claims he had sex with her daughter twice after a show one year earlier. Paycheck reportedly spent two days at the woman's home after the concert
Apr 12, 1982
Donna Fargo files suit against a nightclub owner in the Chicago area, charging he cancelled a singing engagement because she suffers from multiple sclerosis. She asks for a total of $518,000; the judge reduces it 15 months later to $18,000
May 5, 1982
Dolly Parton and two publishers file a lawsuit in a preemptive effort to prove her song "9 To 5" does not infringe on Benny Martin's "Me And My Fiddle"
May 24, 1982
John Schneider and Tom Wopat, stars of "The Dukes Of Hazzard," file suit against Warner Bros., charging the studio of cheating them out of merchandising royalties from the series
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