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Feb 21, 1997
A Tennessee judge rules Conway Twitty's children--Kathy, Joni and Jimmy--must pay back to the estate $64,000 in loans their father made them. A higher court later reverses the decision
Feb 24, 1997
Patty Loveless secures a restraining order against a Texas fan who has called her manager's office more than 100 times since January 8, threatening to do her harm
Apr 16, 1997
Christopher Davis is imprisoned for second-degree murder. A suspected drug dealer, he is indicted 19 months later for the 1995 shooting of 12-year-old Nashvillian Adriane Dickerson, whose death inspired Vince Gill's "Pretty Little Adriana"
May 8, 1997
Reba McEntire files a lawsuit in Nashville to reclaim three of her movie costumes from the Country Star restaurant chain, which maintains locations in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Los Angeles
May 9, 1997
Mindy McCready files for bankruptcy after more than a year of attempting to get out of a contract with her first manager, which paid him 25% of her receipts
May 13, 1997
Crystal's, a Nashville jewelry store owned by Crystal Gayle, is robbed. Four suspects are apprehended and charged within three hours
May 25, 1997
Randy Kimbrough is arrested for trespassing in Franklin, Tennessee, after camping out in a cabin on Wynonna Judd's property without permission
Jul 8, 1997
Songwriter Everett Ellis files suit against songwriters Kerry Kurt Phillips, Rick Blaylock and Howard Perdew, charging they infringed upon his song "Lay Me Out Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)" when they wrote the Joe Diffie hit "Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox (If I Die)." A judge rules against Ellis in December
Sep 5, 1997
A Nashville judge rules the William Morris Agency and agent Joe Harris tampered with the contracts of Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, convincing them to break an agreement with Buddy Lee Attractions. The judge levies $450,000 in damages. Harris died the previous year
Sep 13, 1997
Tracy Lawrence and his wife, Stacie, have a fight over gambling at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, Nevada, for which he is later convicted of battery. She says he hit her in the head at least twice with clenched fists; he maintains he only pushed her over a bed
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