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    • Apr 16, 1996
    "Summertime Blues" songwriter Jerry Capehart sues three publishers, including Warner/Chappell, for $1.35 million for breach of contract and unpaid royalties
    Aug 9, 1996
    Tammy Wynette files suit against The Star and The National Enquirer, charging invasion of privacy after the publications obtained her medical records. The Enquirer reported she was near death and in need of a liver transplant
    Nov 25, 1996
    Andria Surles, a farmhand for Wynonna Judd, files an $800,000 suit against the entertainer and her husband, Arch Kelley III, in Franklin, Tennessee, charging the couple with sexual harassment and discrimination
    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
    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
    Oct 3, 1997
    Garth Brooks files suit against rapper Warren G. in Nashville to protect his use of the lower-case "g" as a symbol
    Oct 14, 1997
    Sammy Kershaw files a $2-million slander suit against Des Moines nightclub Super Toad over a dispute in September. Kershaw declined to perform when he was not paid prior to the show, and the manager told the local paper the singer pulled a gun
    Oct 17, 1997
    Rapper Warren G files suit against Garth Brooks, saying he infringed upon a trademark logo, an encircled lower-case "g"
    Nov 21, 1997
    Tanya Tucker sues actor Ben Reed, the father of her two children, in Franklin, Tennessee, accusing him of keeping them in custody five days longer than agreed to, while trying to change his parental status and get extra money from Tucker



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