Daryl Hall filed a lawsuit against former bandmate John Oates in Nashville’s Chancery Court on Thursday, according to court records.
The two musicians are best known as members of the eponymous rock duo Hall & Oates, who enjoyed huge success in the early 1980s with hits such as “Private Eyes” and “Maneater”.
Hall’s lawsuit against Oates individually and Oates’s trust is listed as a “contract/debt” dispute, but the details of the case are sealed, court records show.
On Friday, the court granted Hall’s request for a temporary restraining order to take effect on 30 November, according to the records.
Because the case is largely sealed, the nature of the temporary restraining order is not clear. Such an order would typically be issued in a business dispute to prevent one party from harming the economic interests of the other.
CNN has contacted representatives and lawyers for both Hall and Oates for comment and further information.
The hitmakers met in Philadelphia in the 1960s and had 29 top 40 hits between 1976 and 1990, according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
“Their most indelible earwigs (sic) include the ethereal chorus of ‘I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do),’ the percolating beat and chiming harmonies of ‘Kiss on My List,’ the weightless rhythmic flow and vocal interplay of ‘Maneater,’ and the plangent, soul-searing chorus of ‘She’s Gone,'” Parke Puterbaugh wrote for Hall & Oates’ induction into the Hall of Fame in 2014.
