Dixie Chicks frontwoman, Natalie Maines, has earned the ire of a man who has sued the group for her actions for the defamatory remarks she made about him while participating in a rally in Little Rock, Arkansas.
This isn't the first time that Maines, known for her outspokenness, has courted controversy. In 2003, while at a concert in London she commented that the Dixie Chicks were ashamed that the President of the United States was from Texas. This resulted in a lot of negative publicity for the band who were boycotted by several country music radio stations and also received several death threats.
This time, Maines appeared in a rally in support of three men, tagged the 'West Memphis Three' who were convicted as teenagers for the death of three 8- year old boys. One amongst them was Steve Branch. At the rally, Maines publicly declared that new evidence from the crime scene indicated that Steve's stepfather, Terry Hobbs was responsible for his death and that his behaviour after his child's death was suspect.
Hobbs is filing a lawsuit for defamation, libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress by outrageous conduct and false- light invasion of privacy. He is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages alleging that the band had caused him unbearable embarrassment, humiliation, severe psychological trauma, loss of income and injury to his reputation.
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