Dixie Chicks Sued For Defamation.

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  • Author(s): Itzkoff, Dave
  • Source:
    New York Times. 12/6/2008, Vol. 158 Issue 54516, p2. 0p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      ACTIONS & defenses (Law); CHICKS, The (Performer); MAINES, Natalie; MURDER; LIBEL & slander
    • Subject Terms:
      WEST Memphis (Ark.); ARKANSAS
    • Abstract:
      The country music trio the Dixie Chicks and their lead singer, Natalie Maines, have been sued for defamation by the stepfather of a boy who was killed in a 1993 attack, The Associated Press reported. Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of Steve Branch, one of three 8-year-old boys who were brutally killed in West Memphis, Ark., in May 1993, filed the lawsuit, with emphasis on Ms. Maines. In 2007, Ms. Maines attended a rally for the men convicted of the attack, known as the West Memphis Three, and said that they were innocent and that evidence implicated Mr. Hobbs; a letter making similar assertions appeared on the dixiechicks.com Web site. Mr. Hobbs has said the charges are false and seeks compensatory and punitive damages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]