Dixie Chick Natalie Maines is being sued in Arkansas by Terry Hobbs, whose eight-year-old step-son was murdered along with two other boys back in 1993. Hobbs has never been implicated or charged in the case.

Three men were convicted of the murders but Maines has been loudly expressing her belief that Hobbs was involved. In fact, she wrote a letter on the Dixie Chicks' Web site encouraging donations for legal fees to free the West Memphis Three (the three convicts mentioned above)

Hobbs is now suing all of the band members but the lawsuit focuses mostly on Maines. He claims that he has lost income and reputation and that her claims "so extreme in degree as to be... atrocious and utterly intolerable."

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