Granting a Broadway production company’s request to move a lawsuit over its stage adaption of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from Alabama to New York, a federal judge said Monday that a live courtroom performance could be needed to decide the case.
Read moreSuing to block Sotheby’s sale of a masterpiece by the acclaimed graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, an 86-year-old collector accused the storied auction house Thursday of “shamelessly” capitalizing on a family in turmoil.
Read moreHollywood producer Scott Rudin’s theater company filed a $10 million countersuit against the estate of author Harper Lee for trying to block an upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and offered a courtroom performance featuring actor Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch.
Read moreAn estate sale firm claims in Florida court that it was stiffed out of its commission on the $23 million sale of a Pablo Picasso painting.
Read moreAdvancing an appeal in a sibling squabble with as many branches as their family tree, the Supreme Court clarified the caselaw Tuesday on consolidated cases.
Read moreThe representative of the estate of famed American author Harper Lee sued a New York theater production company, accusing it of changing too much in its upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Read moreThe body of murder mastermind Charles Manson may soon be put to rest after a Kern County Superior Court commissioner said Wednesday that she would rule soon in the dispute over who can collect his remains.
Read moreThe lawyers for the daughter of late French rocker Johnny Hallyday say she plans to contest her father’s will, which leaves all his property and artistic rights “exclusively” to his widow Laeticia.
Read moreThe widow of R&B star Teddy Pendergrass is suing the late singer’s son and daughters over a protracted estate battle she says has left her emotionally drained.
Read moreThe fight for the corpse of Charles Manson was thrown out of a Los Angeles court Friday, as another potential heir stepped into the case and the grandson of the cult leader made an emotional plea to a judge.
Read moreSix alleged biological children of Soul Brother No. 1 James Brown and three grandchildren claim in a federal complaint against his estate that they were cut out of royalties by his allegedly bigamous wife.
Read moreDuring her time as South Dakota’s lone congresswoman, Rep. Kristi Noem has long told a tale about the Internal Revenue Service’s crushing “death tax” on her farming and ranching family shortly after her father’s untimely death. But court documents suggest Noem’s story is less a tale of the taxman cometh, and more about bungled estate planning.
Read moreGerman police say they have arrested a man suspected of handling stolen objects from the estate of John Lennon, including diaries.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to intervene in the spat between the squabbling children of a deceased Virgin Islands landowner.
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A Dallas County jury Tuesday ordered JPMorgan Chase to pay a whopping $4 billion in damages for mishandling the estate of the former American Airlines executive behind the SABRE airline reservation system.
Read moreSiding with two major publishers and the estates of literary greats such as Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac, a federal judge issued a 31-page order explaining his decision to put the legal kibosh on a series of kid-friendly versions of classic literature.
Read moreDebuting what she calls the “second chapter” of settling Tom Clancy’s estate, the prolific author’s widow asked a federal judge to confirm that she owns the rights to the iconic character Jack Ryan.
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The son of soul singer Barry White is suing the singer’s former wife saying he is nearly homeless and destitute because she refused to give him a fair share of his father’s estate.
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The sound engineer who was blocked from releasing five unheard Prince songs will remain barred from doing so until his dispute with the late pop singer’s estate has been fully resolved, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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