The estate of author Truman Capote sued Paramount Pictures seeking a judicial determination that the estate owns the rights to Capote’s novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which Paramount made into the 1961 classic film, and any potential remake Paramount has planned.
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 moreThe Ninth Circuit appeared poised Tuesday to toss nearly $8 million in punitive damages awarded to John Steinbeck’s stepdaughter in a decades-long copyright spat between the Nobel Prize laureate’s heirs.
Read moreThe Colorado Supreme Court ruled that a probate court abused its discretion in ordering a law firm’s trust account frozen for defending a man who might get $500,000 in life insurance though he is accused of murdering his wife.
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 moreA Hawaii judge on Monday made First Hawaiian Bank the new trustee of the estate of Hawaiian princess and sugar cane heiress Abigail Kawananakoa, after finding the 92-year old lacks the mental capacity to oversee the $220 million trust.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit ruled Friday that medical staffers could likely have prevented a jailed woman’s death after she stopped eating or drinking for two weeks.
Read moreA Vermont man accused by relatives of killing his millionaire grandfather and his mother to collect inheritance money asked a Connecticut probate judge Tuesday to allow him immediate access to $150,000 in a family trust so he can pay for legal expenses.
Read moreA Texas probate judge reduced a widow’s $4 billion verdict against JPMorgan Chase to only $7 million, 10 months after a jury found that the bank mishandled the estate of a former American Airlines executive.
Read moreA New Hampshire woman seeking to be adopted as an adult by an unmarried man can still maintain a legal relationship with one of her birth parents, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreThe private struggle over the care and legacy of Marvel mastermind Stan Lee played out in public Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom as attorneys working with his daughter shoved aside a previous lawyer and reasserted that they represent the 95-year-old Lee.
Read moreA former Georgia probate judge is facing bribery and civil rights violation charges alleging that he solicited sexual favors in exchange for reduced charges from three women.
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 moreItaly’s Senate gave final approval Thursday to a law allowing Italians to write living wills and refuse artificial nutrition and hydration, the latest step in the Roman Catholic nation’s long-running and agonizing debate over euthanasia and end-of-life issues.
Read moreThe sons of legendary concert promoter Bill Graham cannot prove their rights to concert posters and other San Francisco Bay Area rock memorabilia they say they were swindled out of by Graham’s estate executor, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit Court on Thursday waded into an ongoing family feud over the works of John Steinbeck, ruling the celebrated author’s sons and a daughter-in-law have no right to stop movie adaptations of his literary work.
Read moreStoried concert promoter Bill Graham died in 1991, but his sons are still locked in a bitter legal fight with the executor of his estate over his rock memorabilia, including hundreds of concert posters and scrapbooks.
Read moreThe grandson of Maya Angelou is trying to wrest control of the late poet’s intellectual property from his father and has bankrupted a company the two set up to manage her legacy, the father claims in a state court lawsuit filed Monday.
Read moreA federal jury has awarded over $13 million to John Steinbeck’s step-daughter on claims that the author’s late son and widow interfered in movie adaptations of two of his most famous novels.
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