Steve Carver and his production partner Yoram Ben-Ami sued the producers of "Walker, Texas Rangers" for 500 million dollars. Carver talked about the lawsuit in an interview in 2020: "MGM and CBS had bigger and better and more lawyers than we did, all the way to the Supreme Court. We failed to convince the Supreme Court that there were similarities. Now, you and I and anybody else knows that there are similarities between "Lone Wolf McQuade" and "Walker Texas Ranger"." He added that the lawsuit was the reason Chuck Norris and he parted ways.