In 1985, Cara filed a lawsuit against Network Records and Al Coury, Inc., for, among other things, withholding most of the royalties she had earned from her recordings for the label. She claimed that the backlash she endured from taking action against Coury cost her her "future as a recording artist", and believed that the company discouraged the other record labels from working with her because of her legal actions; she described it as being blacklisted. From that point on, record executives and film producers would have nothing to do with her. "Rumors swirled mercilessly about rampant drug use, spreading the notion that, in her early twenties, this great talent already had been hollowed out." The first team of lawyers she hired proved ineffective, and the lawsuit laid dormant until the early nineties when she found a lawyer willing to address what happened.