A federal judge denied Jane Doe’s claim for punitive damages against the executors of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate for alleged sexual assault. New York and U.S. Virgin Islands laws bar recovery of punitive damages against a decedent tortfeasor’s estate.
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Chatitze Molla Sali already knew that she’d won the right to inherit her Muslim husband’s full estate two years ago but she had to wait until Thursday to find out just how much the Greek government would have to pay her for illegally denying it to her.
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An Indian landowner has willed most of his land to two elephants he said saved his life from gun-toting criminals, a decision that has upset his wife and children.
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A French appeals court has ordered the son of a renowned Ferrari collector to pay his siblings millions of euros over the disputed sale of a coveted racer considered the storied Italian automaker’s “Mona Lisa.”
Read moreThe estate of a masseur who accused Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey of sexual touching dropped a lawsuit after the masseur died and the Los Angeles County District Attorney declined to pursue criminal charges against Spacey.
Read moreAn Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will not revisit its decision in a long-running copyright feud between family and heirs of renowned author John Steinbeck.
Read moreThe late Stan Lee’s longtime business manager Bradley J. Herman claims that Lee’s daughter Joan Celia Lee, her attorney Kirk Schenck and The Daily Beast defamed him by claiming he took advantage of the comic legend in his final days, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreIt wasn’t the first lawsuit over Jimi Hendrix’s old guitars, and it’s unlikely to be the last.
Read moreA Florida appeals court affirmed that the late U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno’s home was properly transferred to Miami-Dade College, as the University of Miami opposed conditions on the will and trust, so the successor trustee transferred the home to a similar nonprofit that agreed to the conditions.
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Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier’s fortune.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that the estate of “St. Louis Blues” composer W.C. Handy defamed an accountant by accusing him of dipping into company assets.
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An Alabama attorney claimed Wednesday that under state law, anyone can do what his client is hoping to achieve: Successfully sue an abortion provider for wrongful death after getting a letter of administration to represent the estate of an aborted embryo or fetus.
Read moreAn Alabama judge’s ruling has given legal standing to an aborted embryo.
Read moreThe three-year war over media mogul Sumner Redstone’s estate came to a quiet end Wednesday, after a California judge ruled the 95-year-old former Viacom exec had the mental capacity to amend his trust in 2015 and 2016 to exclude a former companion in favor of his daughter Shari Redstone.
Read moreGreece violated a prohibition on discrimination by applying Islamic religious law to an inheritance dispute among members of the country’s Muslim minority, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe en banc D.C. Circuit appeared likely at oral arguments Friday to endorse the installment plan forced upon the Libertarian Party after it was bequeathed a hefty donation.
Read moreTwo German widows are entitled to allowances in lieu of paid annual leave that their husbands had accrued at work before their deaths, the European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday.
Read moreA paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” used by the judge in the book’s landmark U.K. obscenity trial is expected to sell at auction for up to 15,000 pounds ($20,000).
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