[citation needed] Many listeners find the most interesting facet of the show being James willingness to tackle most any issue a caller might raise.

It's likely that instead of politics, a given listen to the program will produce a discussion about the history of Top 40 radio, or James' passion for obscure soul music, which are two categories where she is a recognized expert.

[6][7][8] On October 15, 1996, a caller to James' afternoon radio show mentioned a bumper sticker that read "Lee Harvey Oswald, where are you when we need you?"

[9] Afterwards, Secret Service agent Shawn Campbell said that "criminal prosecution would not be appropriate" but that "It was improper and it was inappropriate and I think it went over the line of what we should do as a broadcaster, even if it wasn't against the law.

[7][9] At the request of the Johnsons,[7][9] the station's general manager suspended James and ordered her to apologize; after she made an on-air apology,[7][8] but refused to guarantee to management and the Johnsons that she wouldn't make similar statements in the future,[9] the station terminated James' employment on October 25.

"[10][11] He also told Radio World, for a December 11, 1996 article,[6] that James was terminated because the station thought her show "was going to be a little more down the middle and not necessarily mean or vitriolic".

with a picture of James on a broomstick in the middle of the sentence, followed by "Miss Rollye has taken her leave" and "The Woman and Week from Hell is behind us".

[9] James and her company, Mediatrix, sued for breach of contract, intentional infliction of emotional distress, libel, and negligence[8] in Travis County district court.

[6][7] James claimed that, to get the job at KLBJ, she had submitted an audition tape in which she said she regretted that Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti hadn't been assassinated; that she had discussed, with the same station manager that fired her, the differences between her politics and that of the Johnson family;[7] and that she was hired anyway, since the station management and the Johnsons "knew precisely what they were going to get" according to James,[8] and the general manager said to her at hiring that, in reference to her and Rush Limbaugh, "Luci doesn't care how you make us money, as long as you don't care who she contributes it to".

[9] The jury in the case ruled in favor of James, awarding $170,000 from lost pay from her contract cancellation, and $535,000 for libel.